Pat Prince
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Hello
Our water pressure dropped significantly - we are on a well - we changed the pressure switch on the well but that was not the problem. Bypassed the water softener and disconnected it from the plumbing. The plumbing for water out of the softener was clogged with the stuff in the pictures. Does anyone know what this is? It looks like pieces of thin shredded plastic with a straw like material mixed in -- kinda like fiberglass. There was also three pieces of what looked liked ceramic or thick cream colored glass - each piece was about a quarter inch by a quarter inch big (roughly - they were symmetrically shaped).
If it was coming from the well or well plumbing - would the "in" plumbing on the water softener also be clogged? Hoping this isn't something inside the well system - we had a new well pressure tank installed last year.
Do we need to drain the water heater and could this be coming from the water heater? It is about 7 years old. I am thinking it is not coming from the water heater since the water went through the softener before the water heater - but want to confirm.
Did this stuff come from the inside of the water softener tank? I am hoping the tank is messed up and that is where this crap came from. Going to dump the tank tomorrow and see if anything else is in the bottom of it. It is filled with rust colored resin right now - I am assuming that is what is called iron saturated resin??
We have completely disconnected the water softener from our water lines but still getting the faucet screens clogged with this stuff - smaller amounts each time so hoping it is working out of the system.
Our water pressure dropped significantly - we are on a well - we changed the pressure switch on the well but that was not the problem. Bypassed the water softener and disconnected it from the plumbing. The plumbing for water out of the softener was clogged with the stuff in the pictures. Does anyone know what this is? It looks like pieces of thin shredded plastic with a straw like material mixed in -- kinda like fiberglass. There was also three pieces of what looked liked ceramic or thick cream colored glass - each piece was about a quarter inch by a quarter inch big (roughly - they were symmetrically shaped).
If it was coming from the well or well plumbing - would the "in" plumbing on the water softener also be clogged? Hoping this isn't something inside the well system - we had a new well pressure tank installed last year.
Do we need to drain the water heater and could this be coming from the water heater? It is about 7 years old. I am thinking it is not coming from the water heater since the water went through the softener before the water heater - but want to confirm.
Did this stuff come from the inside of the water softener tank? I am hoping the tank is messed up and that is where this crap came from. Going to dump the tank tomorrow and see if anything else is in the bottom of it. It is filled with rust colored resin right now - I am assuming that is what is called iron saturated resin??
We have completely disconnected the water softener from our water lines but still getting the faucet screens clogged with this stuff - smaller amounts each time so hoping it is working out of the system.
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