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How Often to Add Salt to Your Water Softener

Apr 27, 2022 | Plumbing

water softener salt In order for your water softener to work properly, it’s important that you attend to some basic maintenance steps. Most notably, it’s important to keep your brine tank filled to the proper salt level. As such, homeowners often wonder:...

What is the Best Water Softener Salt?

Apr 14, 2022 | Plumbing

Our Advice: Choose Water Softener Pellets At Carter’s My Plumber, we highly recommend choosing salt pellets. What happens when you use salt crystals is a “salt bridge” can form. A salt bridge is a hard crust that develops over the water in the brine...

How Long Do Water Softeners Last?

Mar 23, 2022 | Plumbing

What’s the Life Expectancy of My Water Softener? With the right level of maintenance, water softeners can often last as long as 20 years. But there are a lot of variables to consider. The first thing homeowners should know is that the older a water softener is,...