I have a water softener. when I Installed it I found the water hardness was at 15 gpg. When I called the city they said between 20-27. so I set the softener to 30. I have always suspected it wasn't doing much, but we do go through salt (very slowly). so I had the water tested, and it says its 280 (z) which from what I've read is hard. why is the softner not softening? I double checked that it wasn't set to bypass... when I run the water in the house I see the softener showing water is going through...
Water softner not effective
- Thread starter jjohnston
- Start date
Help Support House Repair Talk:
Speedbump
Water well etc.
- Joined
- Apr 17, 2009
- Messages
- 672
- Reaction score
- 72
Sounds like you bought a water boss. If the 280 is ppm, that equates to 16 grains hard. This is simple to resolve for a real softener. Not knowing what unit you have for sure or what it's specs are; I don't see how I could tell you why it isn't working.
