Recent content by mprzybylski

ah, that makes sense and is a much simpler/cheaper solution than the fittings i was just looking at :)

I had the realization after posting that this is a different type of hose like you linked and came back to ask how you would link two hoses together since they don’t seem to have fittings. I of course need roughly 115’ so I’ll need to get a 100’ and 25’ to connect together but I only see one...

Yep, draining to the sewer cleanout in the front (that's what I did last time). When you say to use a 1.5" hose or larger, that's mainly for speed, not an actual requirement for draining, right? I had bought a 5/8" 100' hose for draining which is what I used last time. I do realize this would...

Not sure why I didn’t get notifications for your replies even though had the box checked, but glad I checked back in this morning. Yes the WS is a 64k unit. I went ahead and purchased the pump you linked on Amazon because I’d rather just have it and it will drain a lot faster, so thank you...

Last year I had high CH levels and needed to drain my pool. I used the spigot, connected a hose, turned the pump off, and opened the spigot and drained no problem. My CH was high again this year and I got help here to identify and finally solve the issue (my water softener wasn’t large enough...

lol, well the TF-100 test kit for pH doesn't have a 7.9, 7.8 straight to 8.0, so I have guessed at that number before as well, but I'm not as skilled at reading reds :) Thanks for the link on borates, it looks like a fair amount of work to get going with it (and money investment), so I think...

I'll try this approach moving forward because clearly what I was doing before isn't working. My TA is at 70 currently so I'll start to manage pH at 7.6-7.9 levels (how do you gauge 7.9? the test goes from 7.8 to 8, so are you just kind of assuming what 7.9 would look like based on the other...

I have added quite a bit of acid over time to control pH at it seems I'm constantly trying to keep my pH between 7.2-7.8 (which was the advice I received last year around this topic). On average I'm adding 24-30oz of acid every 3-4 days to keep pH levels at that mark. I've only been adding very...

Pre-WS salt levels were 3600 at fill time on Sept 6 2021 and 4400 on Nov 6 2022 before I made my first post about this issue. Post-WS salt levels were 3200 at refill on Nov 15 and today sit at 4000. I'm using the K-1766 salt kit.

I have a plumber coming out to look at the water softener tomorrow, but I was thinking about this a bit more over the weekend. In my original post I talked about the fast and high rise in CH and salt that I experienced last year, before plumbing the water softener to the auto fill and...

I have a similar setup, but one stage. i also change it out yearly.

Because it was purchased 6 years ago (and we were new to AZ and never had a softener before) I don't quite remember all the details, but I believe it is 48,000 (it is the Fleck 5600 SXT which it looks like is what you have as well). As for the settings, I'll be 100% transparent and say that I...

@JoyfulNoise Thank you for all of your replies. Considering everything else, I think you are right in that the issue may be my WS as I can't think of anything else that may be impacting this at this point. I feel like I've done everything I can to avoid this issue yet its still here, so I'll...

We installed it when we had the house built, so that would put us at right around just over 6 years old. It was not serviced, but it was checked and validated when we installed a whole home filtration system about ~2-3 years ago.

Last I tested it, it was between 200-250 (that was last year when i referenced the thread in my original post). Additionally, when I refilled the pool with that water, the CH was around that same level. Yes, my pool build was a complete DIY so no builder, but the soft water autofill was added...