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sinanisjg (CT)
Is it OK to add a water softener after the newly installed neutralizer (4 months old - I have a WEIL-McLAIN furnace that provides baseboard heat and hot water for the home - I also have well water, acidic, PH 6, and septic).
Would this action, addition of the softener, compromise the role of the neutralizer by removing calcite from the cycle and perhaps lowering again the water PH before it enters the house piping and furnace???? I'm guessing not but I'm not sure.
Thank you
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m & m (MD)
It is normal practice to install a softener after a neutralizer.
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sinanisjg (CT)
Thank you for your comment.
I guess my brain tells me that if you remove the calcite, which coats the pipes for protection against low PH from the cycle via softener, you could again introduce in the cycle a low PH water. What am I missing? Can you elaborate how this process works?
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m & m (MD)
The neutralizer will raise the pH of the water to 7.0 or thereabouts but will also increase the hardness of your water (original hardness plus added hardness due to calcite). The softener will remove the hardness so that your treated water now is 0gpg hard, and 7 pH. Neutral water is noncorrosive to your plumbing. The benefit of the softener is the elimination of scale-producing hardness.
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sinanisjg (CT)
I thank you for the explanation, It makes a lots of sense.
After the neutralizer was installed I was told to keep the neutralizer in service running for at least 6 months to allow for coating of the pipes before a softener is placed in the cycle, hence my confusion and question.
Thank you again
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m & m (MD)
Once you put a softener in service, the tendency is for internal scale on the interior walls of the pipes to slowly dissolve away. But the water is neutral so it does not attack the pipe.
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sinanisjg (CT)
Thank you for the help
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