A Broken Water Softener, Cleaning Ooops, Giving Up

[BrendanC]

Right now there's 1/2" copper feeding the house so any little bit helps in this case

oof, upsize that if you want some flow. i’m fed by a 1” city meter, 1” Pex A through a 1” ball valve through my water treatment setup. everything is 1” ID with all valves being full port. still wish i would have paid the city to bump to a 2” meter and fed 2” to my split to 1” trunks.

 

[Delta]

My setup is so hodge-podge. 1" Galvanized from the well pitless where it enters through the foundation. Then it transitions to 3/4" copper to the tank which then comes out with 1/2" copper. I really need to replace the 1" galvanized, but being 3+ feet underground and under a concrete porch I'm holding off till the last minute on that one.

Buy an old house in the country they said, it'll be fun they said...

 

[Delta]

Today was the final install day.

I was able to do some prep and start pipe running yesterday.

First thing today was to drain the tank and tackle that old fitting in the tank tee. At first it wouldn't budge but after re-positioning myself...

Hah, success!

Removed old softener setup and started running pipe.

Yes, I might have gone overboard with the pipe compound. Several wraps of tape and coat of compound seems to be what I have success with.

Got some scrap lumber and made a quick brace to zip tie the surge protector to.

All the plumbing wrapped up I turned the pump back on and purged all the air only to realize I didn't add air to the tank. It was sitting on 18psi (tank was installed 2012 and who knows if its ever been drained and topped off) where it needs to be at 28 since I have a 30/50 switch. Drained everything, added air, repeat...

Did the setup on the softener and everything works! Final product.