What kind of salt do you recommend using?
What kind of salt do you recommend using?
Q:
What kind of salt do you recommend using and do your softeners also use Potassium Chloride in place of salt?
A:
We recommend buying salt for your water softener that is very clean; around the 99.5% salt content and up. All softeners can use Potassium Chloride in place of sodium salts. Potassium Chloride pellets tend to melt or break up when it gets wet, sometimes forming a “bridge” inside the salt tank or a salt pack at the bottom of your brine tank, so, we recommend filling the Brine tank only halfway or a bit more when using Potassium Chloride, so, you can easily monitor it going down inside the tank after the unit regenerates. You want to always maintain a level of salt, above the water line.
Diamond Crystals - Sun Gems salt is one of the cleanest salts we have used.
The most common method of refilling the brine tank with water is the post fill method that is programmed into the control valve if, it is computerized. If your water softener is on post refill, we recommend using crystal salt. Crystals will dissolve only to a point to where the is a 100% saturation of salt to water. This means the water will not hold anymore salt. The crystals will not fall apart like pellets can and will not clog the bottom of your brine tank. Crystals will allow the water to pass through them more readily than pellets that have fallen apart at the bottom of the brine tank.
If your water softener is on a pre-refill setting you can use pellets without much of an issue because, when the system is set to pre-refill the brine tank or brine compartment will fill before regenerating begins. This method of pre-fill leaves the brine tank or brine compartment empty so, there is no water for the pellets to set in thus reducing the opportunity for the pellets to fall apart and clog up the brine pickup valve.
Our favorite salt comes in crystal form. Crystals desolve evenly and leaves little chance of a slat mud pack at the bottom of the brine tank. Some salts have rocks and other contaminants and we avoid them. When adding salt to your brine tank, avoid sitting the salt bags on the ground. Try to make sure the bags are clean of things that can fall into salt tank.
All water softeners with a quality softening resin will work with either sodium chloride or potassium chloride. Our systems only come with Dow high capacity softeneing resin.