💧 Fleck 64K Water Softener Grains: Highly Efficient Solution for Crystal Clear Water Review

I'm an engineer and I do most of the home repairs myself. This unit has well made tanks and a good controller. I was, and still am, a little apprehensive about plumbing interfaces. The interface uses a plastic adapter to provide an interface with pipe threads and this adapter is sealed with radial seal o-rings, which is excellent modern design practice. Also, plastic is glass. filled with resin which makes it very durable. It's cheap plastic. However, the 1" NPT external thread is cut into the…

I combined this with an Aquasana 3 stage whole house filter (fine dust filter, main carbon filter, post filter). We live in a village and have well water that is surprisingly clean. It's very hard and almost acidic. However, we don't have to worry about the hardware. The recommended installation was to install the softener first and then the filter. The backwash is supposed to take care of the finer sediment that ends up in the softener - hopefully the filter will last a lot longer this way. I…

Installing your own water softener is not for the faint of heart. I have to admit I was intimidated by the cost and complexity and put off replacing my old water softener for much longer than I should have. Pentair's Fleck 5600SXT is the Toyota Camry of water softener controls - it's popular because it's economical and it works. Two questions remained: Is the water softener a do-it-yourself project that I can make? First a little background - we live in Northern California and use well water…