You are very welcome 😊 and thank you for watching my videos. I am grateful that you find this video very useful to you. I really do appreciate it. 🙏

Thank you very much and you are very welcome 🤗

Sounds like the water softener unit that you have is defective. If the system is not bringing down the hardness, then the unit is bad....in my opinion. The mechanism inside may not work properly. I would highly recommend you to buy the new system. The new system is fairly cheap now and sometimes you can catch it when it's on sale. I hope this helps and hopefully will help you solve the issues.

You're welcome 😊 Yes! I do highly recommend installing one for your home. It's well worth it. Here in Texas, hard water made my body itches every time after I took a shower. Now I'm not itchy anymore after the shower. 😄 My dishes came out super clean from my dishwasher, and the bathrooms are easier to clean. Also, my faucets don't have the calcium build-up anymore, and that's a plus.

Yes that is correct, but the 64,000 grain was on sale at Home Depot for the same price of the 32,000 grain, so I bought it. I do use a lot of water, just not for shower, but for purified drinker water and cooking as well and watering my inside plants. 😊

@@MrBeeHS I get it. You will just use a more salt than needed. Keep an eye on the long term resin performance. You may need to override the time meter and add an extra Regen cycle if your resin goes stagnant

@@joephu definitely, thank you for the heads-up,👍😊

Thank you for your information 🙏 I will look into getting the deionized system soon. I appreciate your input.

What deionized system would you recommend for the whole house?

Yes, to get a true reading, you need to bypass the water softener. So that you can see the reading from the city water. You can also test the hardness after the water softener to see how efficient your water softener performs as well.

That's good that you have installed your unit. Just to let you know that your TDS will be a little higher than normal....that is ok. Because your treated water had salt in the mix due to the water softener system. The purpose for the water softener system is to soften the hard water that comes from the city. Hard water is usually bad for your appliances, faucets, and toilets. It'll leave that white and green stuff on your faucets. It won't reduce your TDS. My TDS that came out from the city water is 217 ppm and after water softener is 237 ppm and from my Reverse Osmosis came out 9 ppm. Which improved for drinking water. If you want to check the hardness of your water before and after the water softener system, you can buy water hardness strips to check. You will be surprised that your water softener system is working very efficiently. So keep your system.... it's well worth the investment. It'll take about at least one month for your water softener system to work for the whole house.

@@MrBeeHS If I may further add. Having zero PPM pure water probably isn't very good for you because your stomach actually needs ions like salt in order to open the gate channels in your stomach to absorb it. Zero PPM or DI water is really just good for cleaning equipment and running machinery because it leaves spotless stains and doesn't cause sediment.

You are correct! Bullseye 👍 Your water softener system won't be able to remove all of that nor the RO or any other water purifier system that purifies water for drinking. You do need minerals and other stuff in the water to make your body healthy. Like DI and distilled water are not good for human bodies. Usually, manufacturers will use DI and distilled to mix with something else like antifreeze, etc.

You need to purchase the strips from Amazon to test out your water hardness. The strip will show show you the hardness of your tap water. Then, use that number to calculate your settings for your water softener system. The calculation method is also in my video as well.

75 gallon input is the standard number as part of the formula for the water softener system. The 75 gallon is not the gallon per min. No matter where you get the water source from, you just need to plug in the 75 gallon as a part of the formula. I hope this helps.

@@NataGeo83 the 75 gallons per person is the estimated usage. The reason you subtract this number from your gal capacity is so that if the meter gets to zero, you will still have some softening ability until the unit regenerates at 2:00 a.m.

@joephu yes you definitely correct 💯👍

It's wasn't for fish tank, but you can definitely use it for fish tank, though.

Your new system won't bring the ppm down much because its function is to soften the water, which removes calcium, magnesium, and other minerals from the city water that comes into your home. Those minerals are the ones that cause your faucets to have that white and green stuff on the surface and clog up the pipes, which they called it "hard water." The water purifier (for drinking) will bring down your ppm. By the way, my ppm before the water softener is about 290ish and after is about 270-280 ppm. But the ppm after the water came out from my water purifier system is 5 ppm. 😊

@@MrBeeHS oh thank you so much for that information. what purification system did you go with ?

@Zanein you're very welcome 🙏 I went with Express Water RO 10 stage. I bought the system from Home Depot. It works really well and it also makes Alkaline as well....very healthy for your body.

You need to increase your salt dosage to get your water to soften more. You also need to adjust the dosing in the program.

@@MrBeeHS which option is it? I’m not sure which settings to change?

@vinh3922 let me check and I'll get back with you.

@@MrBeeHS it must be the brine fill setting? I must increase the time for the brine fill, so there is more water in the brine tank.

@vinh3922 you can try that for now, so it would draw more salt in and I'll check to make sure what other methods that you can do. I am not currently home right now.