Installing one of these beasts is doable if you know how to sweat copper pipes. No? Cool. Call a plumber. Seriously, paying $300 for installation is cheaper than flooding your basement because you used tape instead of a proper connection. Been there, fixed that, still own a wet-vac.
Oh, and please put the softener after your pressure tank but before your water heater. You don’t want to soften water for your lawn or garden—plants hate salt. They’re dramatic like that.
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You gotta feed it salt. No way around it. Use solar salt pellets, not the blue block stuff. The blocks can jam up the brine tank, and then you’ll be digging salty sludge out with a spatula. And nobody wants to do that on a Sunday.
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Also, check the salt level once a month. I know, I know, it’s another chore. But if you let it run dry, the resin gets crunchy and useless. Think of it like feeding a very needy, very useful pet.
