Hi,
We have an older Rayne water softener. It is located outside our house. This summer I was out of town for several weekends and the brine tank ran out of salt. I would not expect that to be so bad but, the system regenerated last week and the next morning all our water in the house smelled like a swap!
I switched the bypass valve, and tured on all the taps in the house to flush the pipes. I also flushed the hot water heater. I think the pipes are clean, the water smeels like chlorine now...
What should I do about this softener? I'm sure really dirty, funky water was used during the last regen, the brine tank smells like something died in it. Is it worth the effort to replace the resin and maybe buy a new brine tank? Seems like a new softener is ~500$ and I'd like to avoid that cost. How hard is it to rebuild one of these things?
Advise? Where can I get parts?
Thanks,
S.
We have an older Rayne water softener. It is located outside our house. This summer I was out of town for several weekends and the brine tank ran out of salt. I would not expect that to be so bad but, the system regenerated last week and the next morning all our water in the house smelled like a swap!
I switched the bypass valve, and tured on all the taps in the house to flush the pipes. I also flushed the hot water heater. I think the pipes are clean, the water smeels like chlorine now...
What should I do about this softener? I'm sure really dirty, funky water was used during the last regen, the brine tank smells like something died in it. Is it worth the effort to replace the resin and maybe buy a new brine tank? Seems like a new softener is ~500$ and I'd like to avoid that cost. How hard is it to rebuild one of these things?
Advise? Where can I get parts?
Thanks,
S.