Kinetico Water Softener Not Working

Our water experts show you how to clean your brine tank in your kinetico water softener.

Kinetico water softener not working. Before we get into the maintenance and repairs of water softener systems let s review how a kinetico water softener system actually works. Because a kinetico water softener only regenerates when a pre set amount of gallons of water have been used it may be hard to know when it has. Water softeners need to run their regeneration cycles in order to work properly but sometimes they may fail to do this for a number of reasons. Tlc plumbing is an authorized independent kinetico dealer.

11 water softener will not regenerate. The water softener will not know that there is no salt in the tank and therefore it will go through the regular regeneration process as if there was salt. Water softener systems can malfunction over time for a few simple reasons. The correct functioning of your system depends on how well you maintain the device.

Hard water is water which contains high levels of calcium and magnesium. How water softeners work. Check your softener is not by passed. The most common is a faulty regeneration timer.

Just because your kinetico water softener is regenerating regularly does not necessarily mean that it is working correctly but if it is not regenerating regularly it is not softening your water. The only problem is that the water softener will continue to run and regenerate hard water which if left long enough could begin to gum up your tank and lines with a limescale build up. If your water softener is in by pass or has the by pass valve open you will not receive soft water.