Re: Water Softener

Posted by DRussell on December 29, 2022 at 10:52:52 from (137.200.0.106):

In Reply to: Water Softener posted by plowhand on December 29, 2022 at 10:28:28:

Interestingly enough our water softener was serviced today. I asked the tech some of the questions from the earlier post about softeners. His answers not mine:

Media in the softener will go bad, but not very often. It depends mostly on how the system is set up and the type of water it has to soften.

Chlorine from city water systems is very hard on the media and will destroy it. If you have chlorinated water you should have a de-chlorination system ahead of the softener.

Iron in your water is also hard on media because it tends to be sticky and hard to get out of the media with the saltwater backflush.

Two tank media systems are far superior to single tank systems. The system works on the ion exchange system. The media is full of ions from the sodium. As the hard (mostly from dissolved limestone) water passes through the media the calcium ions in the water are captured by the media and replaced by the ions from the sodium. The size of the media tank and the hardness level of the water determines how much water it takes to fully exchange the ions in the media.

Once the sodium ions are gone and the media is full of calcium ions the media has to be back-flushed with salt water in order to rinse out the calcium ions and replace them with sodium ions again. If this is done with already softened water (from a two tank system) the process is much more efficient and complete. If the backflush is done with hard water that is not already softened (as in a single tank system) it can't fully rinse out he calcium ions and replenish the media with sodium ions.

Our system is a Kinetico softener with a K5 drinking station. It uses no electricity and is a two tank system. There is a water valve that measures water use and once enough water has passed through the media tank (based on our level of hardness) to use up the media it switches to the other tank then backflushes the dirty tank with already softened salt water. I like our system because there are no electrical parts to go bad. It's been installed for several years now and they come and service the K5 drinking station filters every year. The water softener has worked perfectly since install.

Link to Martin Water below. They are our local Kinetico dealer.

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