If you have a water softener that isn't, well, softening your water, it might be time to clean your brine tank. Here's why it ...

Start by pushing a broom handle down into the salt to break up water softener salt bridges (like a dome), blocking salt from dropping to the bottom of the tank. If too little salt gets dissolved, the ...

Salt-free water softeners are actually more like water conditioners; ... The brine tank is refilled with water to make it ready for the next service cycle.

If it’s any help, the brine tank can be located up to 20 feet away from the softener mineral tank. Consider positioning this tank in a garage to make it easier to fill the tank with salt.

Water softeners are made up of a mineral tank and a brine tank. They attach to your mains water supply, which means water is softened before it reaches the tap. ... Note that some water softeners have ...

Q: Where should the salt water brine from our water softener drain into - our sump pump or our septic field? Is one option better than the other, or does it not matter? Thank you. - via email A: Di… ...

Shea stores his brine in massive water tanks just outside the rock salt warehouse. Brine works the same way as the rock salt – trucks pour it on the road before a storm, and then it melts snow ...