Part 3 - How a Home Water Softener Works - www.ifixh2o.com

In Part 3 of this informative video, owner Scott Handy finishes his very detailed explanation of how a residential water softener works. Water that looks cloudy, creates a blue or green stain, smells like sulfur (rotten eggs), tastes bad, or stains fixtures brown can also gradually damage your expensive plumbing system - causing pinhole leaks, clogged piping, and unnecessary faucet, dishwasher, and water heater repairs. As "Natures Solvent" well water can contain common nuisance substances and minerals such as calcium and magnesium hardness, iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, and sediment; or it could possibly contain dangerous man made pollutants like nitrates, bacteria, lead, MTBE, benzene, and other organic and/or inorganic substances that can be harmful to human health. Mr. Water Professional Water Treatment has new technologies available that will fix the questionable quality of your drinking water, laundry will be clean and bright, and bathing will be a refreshing experience again - all for less money than you might think!

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Science & Technology

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• water
• softener
• softeners
• treatment
• well
• pump
• pumps
• system
• Maryland
• salt
• filters
• purification

[loudpipesavelives69]

Great vid! Mine just has one tank with calcite in it how does that work?

[thomasmark1]

Thank you so much -very goor job with explaning how this works .

[Wallabydam]

just tonight we had someone from a company do a demo here and she was tryin to tell me the slipperyness was from the bodys natural oils come to the surface, i told her that if thats true then that means it goin to dry out your skin and its not good for you, she was at a stalemate lol.... i knew it was from the salt, and i told her that but she was tryin Super hard to sell us a 5800 system! came down from 8000 to 6500 to 5800,.,, crazy!!!!

[conmoto]

You did a great job explaining this. Thank you! Can you tell me why I get a few gallons (approximately) salty water after every regeneration cycle?

[davedufour]

Many thanks for this. I never really understood how these things work. I have a serious iron problem in my water and I think it's goofed up my Kenmore softener, but this gives me some things to look for to try to fix it.

[TradieTrev]

Excellent explanation Scott!

[Deanimal445]

Kudos to the maker of this video, it explains a lot in detail. For those asking about the brine tank if you look around or on the control panel. You should see an option that allows you to alter the water level in the tank. Either by gallons or by pounds in tank. Note: It will always refill your tank to the set level so you have to watch the salt level.

[mister990]

I have a softener and In my brine tank the water and salt levels very nearly match. There may be a few inches of water above the salt when the salt gets low, but there is a float in the tank to regulate the water level. From my understanding the tank should never fill up to the top with water. By the way he is right, this is the best vid on youtube about how water softeners work.

[PAMAROSHOUSE]

does the brine tank always fill to the top and if mine doesnt fill to the top what can be wrong?