Losing my resin out the drain hose.

[eldyfig]

I'm back. Last month I had a problem with my softener filling the brine tank with water during the brine draw phase. Well, I fixed that problem. The thread is here: http://www.terrylove.com/forums/show...ter&highlight= Since February 10th, everything has been working great.

I added salt about 1 week ago and all looked good. I was out by the system a few days ago and noticed a couple cups worth of resin on the ground where the drain hose lays. I removed the cap where the brine injector screen is and removed and flushed the parts. Things didn't look bad here. I removed the drain nipple and the rubber orifice plug and found alot of resin in this area. I flushed all that I could out of here and reinstalled the parts.

Last night, the system regenerated again. I checked things out before I left for work. What I found did not please me. There was at least a half gallon of resin on the ground at the discharge. With my truck lights shining through the resin tank, I could see that the tank is now only half full. This is an 8" resin tank. The water level in the brine tank is starting to rise incidentally.

We have been having a cold winter down here in SE Georgia. The temp last night got down to 28. We have had alot of nights like this and I still haven't built a pump house to protect my pumps. I have been throwing a blanket over the pumps and letting water trickle out a spigot at the well and at the house. Haven't had any frozen pipes. I am not too sure about the softener.

What do I do? What are all the parts in the resin tank? How much and where can I get resin? Help me, please.

[Akpsdvan]

Any resin in the house?

Any chance that there has been a crack in the brine line? Getting air into the system while in brine draw?

Air would be one of the first things that I would be looking for in getting into the systeme.. either from the brine tank or from the well..

There are a few other reasons, distributor tube could be cracked below the resin level and getting pushed out while in rapid rinse. really high pressure... say 90PSI...

There are 3 items for the media tank... the tank, resin(some gravel) and the distributor tube that goes from valve to bottom of media tank ..

The room between the top of the tank and the resin for the culligan should be about 16", with you getting to see through the tank, take a reading and find out how many inchs you come up with..

Until we get a handle on the resin getting out..

[eldyfig]

Earlier this week, I noticed I wasn't getting any hot water from the master bath and the shower stall's pressure was low. Both of these are on the other side of the house, farthest from the well, besides the toilet. The rest of the house seems ok. This was what made me check the system a few days ago when I first noticed the resin on the ground. Yesterday, I removed the cartridge from the tub's faucet. I didn't notice any blockage, but when I reinstalled it and turned the water back on, the problem with it was fixed. I had hot water again. I didn't mess with the shower stall's faucet though.

I will measure the room I have in the tank this evening when I get home from work. There was something else I noticed this morning. It was dark out, so the lights from my truck shining on the tank made it very easy to see the resin in there. There looked to be resin splashed up and sticking to the very top side of the tank.

I guess whenever I turn water off to the house, I should put the softener in Bypass first, huh?

[Akpsdvan]

What looks like resin splashed up and sticking to the very top side of the tank could be either resin or stain... if it is resin then it has not fallen back down to the resin and I would go with Air in the line some place between pump and softener..

[Gary Slusser]

This can also happen if you don't have a top basket and then the water goes colder than you've had since the softener was installed. The colder water raises the level of resin higher in the tank than it has been, and out the drain goes a quart or two of resin.

[Akpsdvan]

When has a Culligan unit ever had an upper basket?

The older style tanks that they have used for years there was no way one was going in, and the new ones don't get one put in, that is why they always have 17" of freeboard