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SECTION 1 WATER SOFTENER START-UP
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1D. SANITIZING THE WATER SOFTENER
Care is taken at the factory to keep your water
softener clean and sanitary. Materials used to make
the softener will not infect or contaminate your water
supply, and will not cause bacteria to form or grow.
However, during shipping, storage, installing and
operating, bacteria could get into the softener. For
this reason, sanitizing as follows is suggestedQ
when installing.
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Lift the salt hole cover and use a pail or hose
to fill the salt storage tank with at least 3
gallons of water.
Remove the brinewell cover (FIG. 3) and pour
about 3/4 ounce of common 5.25% house
hold bleach (Clorox, Linco, BoPeep, White
Sail, Eagle, etc.) in the softener brinewetL
Press the ON/OFF-HOLD button and hol_ for
to start a recharge. This first
recharge does several things.
-- It draws the bleach into and through the
softener to sanitize it.
SaLt Hole
Cover
Hose
Water,
About 3 Gallons -_
Brinewell
Cover
(remove and add
about3/4 oz bleach)
--Itfitlsthe salttanktothe waterlevel
needed_
-- It gets all the air out of the resin tank.
-- It makes the resin bed (see page 11)
ready for service°
O Recommended by the Water Quality Association On some water
supplies, the water softener may need periodic disinfecting Sanitize
with or without salt in the storage tank
NOTE:
This recharge takes about 2 hours.
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