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What is wrong with my water softener? Salt is HARD and won’t go down?

Published February 26th, 2010 in Sears Water Softeners | 4 Comments »

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Princess A asked:


My husband died last year and I am finding a LOT of things around here need fixing…
Like my WATER SOFTENER…We had a bag of those sale pellets in there, never went DOWN and now most are ROCK HARD. I called Sears, who installed it like YEARS ago, but they failed to come by. LOL.
a FRIEND said to take out ALL the salt, but what a job that IS…About 1/3 way done. Been chipping it w a tool and a broom stick,
Is there an easier here?
Any ideas of why the salt is NOT going down> A clog maybe? I think it was installed in 1995…

Is my avacado green Sears water softener possessed? Or simply uncooperative?

Published February 16th, 2010 in Sears Water Softeners | 1 Comment »

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Yenta asked:


…it is being difficult.

I added salt like usual last week (it had run out) and soon noticed it was running far more frequently than the regeneration schedule. It is old…likely circa late 70s, but the timer had been replaced in 1989 according to records left by the previous home owner. It has now been running continually for the past three or four days. I tried unplugging it to see if that would stop the cycle, but it kept making the hissing sound it has always made during regeneration in the back. Assuming that it is not a possessed and evil water softener, I tried turning off the water to the appliance, and the sound stopped. Could it be a salt bridge? I am unable to get a broom handle far into the salt as it is pretty full and hate to empty the salt unless absolutely required. Or could it be something with the water line since the sounds I hear stop when the water line is closed? Is there any hope for this softener or is time to retire it?

I appreciate any help! Thanks in advance…

Harder water = more expensive water softener?

Published January 23rd, 2010 in Sears Water Softeners | 3 Comments »

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HHKIANG asked:


A rainsoft water teatment sales came to our house and did some water test 2 days ago. He told us we have really hard water – 26. Therefore, those water softeners sold in Sears or Homedepot won’t work for our house. We should buy an expensive one(4500$) from him to fix our hard water pb. Is that true that if the water is very hard, those regular water softener (like those costs couple of hundred) won’t work well ?

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