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Clean Water Softener Over time the salt storage tank of your water softener will need to be cleaned out. The salt storage tank will accumulate debris and may even develop a salt bridge, making the unit ineffective. No brine, no softening! Cleaning the tank is a serviceable item for which you do not need to "Call the Culligan Man". You should do this every two years. Here's a list of items you will need. If you are just considering getting a softener, read this article. Also, you can view the 20-page User Manual for this unit by Culligan. If you need more pictures and information, check out the In-depth How-To. |
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Remove the salt tank cover and look inside. You want to carefully lift the brine valve out of the smaller 4" chamber and set this aside. There are numerous parts to the valve assembly and you need to be careful with the float valve |  |
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Scoop out and discard as much of the remaining salt and brine. If you procrastinate like I do, there may not be any salt, just some nasty looking brine. You will notice how cloudy the water is. This may be especially true if you use the "iron" removing type of salt. |  |
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Remove the brine valve chamber by removing the screws on either side of the salt tank. In the bottom of the tank is the salt plate needs to be removed also. Things get trapped beneath it. I recommend that you move the tank outside to scrub and hose it out. |
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Refill the tank with clean salt almost all the way to the top of the tank. This may be from 6-8 bags of salt depending on the size of your storage tank. Fill the tank with 4-6" of water. |
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Replace the storage tank cover. Be sure that the by-pass value is pushed in. On this unit, looking from the right you would push for by-pass. From the left you would see to push for service. |
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