Clogged Water Softener

B1 carries water into the softener and b3 is the line coming out of the softener eventually going back up to d from the 1st picture above.

Clogged water softener. The water softener will regenerate and clean these beads at night. There are a few reasons why your water softener keeps running over and over again. The injector in your water softener can get clogged with debris over time. My theory is that overnight our old shoddy softener kicked over and is now clogged so bad that its barely.

How to remove the salt clog from your water softener. There are two parts of a water softener that prone to clogging sediment filters and resin bed. A top basket that is clogged will prevent adequate backwashing and backwashing is the means the softener uses to clean itself the resin actually of dirt. If there is no difference you ll need to check elsewhere.

Dirty filters most softeners have sediment filters that are used to filter out sediment before they reach the resin bed. When you run water in a couple places in the house you have almost no flow. Troubleshooting your potentially clogged water softener or iron filter is very straight forward all you need to do is temporarily bypass it. I believe b2 is a bypass line in case we want to run water without going through the softener.

A typical way to know if you have a clogged injector is to check if the water in the brine tank is. This can affect the water softener s ability to create suction for the brine cycle. A common telltale sign that the membrane has broken is low water pressure and one of the common culprits for low water pressure is the water softener. The result is the softener cannot regenerate properly and you will get hard water.

If the membrane that holds the resin beads were to break the beads are then free to travel throughout your plumbing system. These systems have a life expectancy of around eight years. Without regular servicing the softener will likely have problems including low water pressure. Using a softener removes minerals from the water that may cause deposits on your water fixtures and may improve the taste of the water as well.

And dirt is rarely a sufficient reason to replace resin. Have you noticed that your water pressure or flow is worse now than it used to be. If you see that there is a noticeable difference with the water softener bypassed then the clog is in the water softener. Clogged valves or water lines.

The water softener is too old.