Water Softener Brine Tank Overflowing

Your softener won t regenerate properly and your water will be hard.

Water softener brine tank overflowing. Your brine tank will fill with water over time until the safety float is engaged. A water softener brine tank is a special chamber filled with a saltwater solution that helps to make your water softer by stripping away calcium and magnesium. Next check that your drain line isn t clogged or kinked in a manner that would impede the flow of brine through the brine line. Weak brine draw or poor brine flow from the brine tank through the water softener resin tank will result in hard water or the delivery of soft water for abnormally short period.

During the water softener regeneration cycle there are a number of steps that basically amount to flushing out the resin in the resin tank that s where the softening actually takes place and will be the tank below the control head for the system then sending salty water out of the brine tank brine tank draw through the resin tank to re charge the resin beads with salt and finally sending some water back into the brine tank so that the new water can dissolve salt to be ready for the. The system either did not remove all the brine from the tank before refilling it or the system continued to add water to the tank beyond the correct level. Water overflows a faulty brine valve assembly or damaged rotor valve can cause the salt tank to overflow. When customers contact us that their softener isn t performing nine out of ten times it s because the softener isn t able to draw the brine solution out of the brine tank during regeneration.

This can be caused by a number of different issues and this article will help you figure out how to identify and correct the problem. Run an extra regeneration cycle at the water softener and observe the brine drain. Water softeners are designed to prevent minerals from scaling on your pipes and fixtures but funnily enough they are subject to salt which is still a mineral scaling inside the tank and within the system s lines. Water or air leakages will cause a malfunction of your water softening system and an overflow of water in the brine tank.

Now there are several stages to the water softening process but the two most important with respect to the flooding problem are fill which just fills the brine tank with water and brine which moves the salty water from the brine tank to the resin tank where the water softening happens. This build up can sometimes form salt bridges at the base of the tank that can prevent your system from softening the water. The brine valve assembly should shut off water flowing into the salt tank when brine water reaches the correct level. Replace the brine valve assembly if it doesn t shut off fill water causing brine water to overflow the tank.

A water softeners salt tank will overflow when the systems brine water float shut off assembly fails to shut off the water feed and one or both of two other things happen. Salt clogs restrict the flow of water entering the brine tank to absorb the salt and the flow of water drawn out of the brine tank as well. Look for salt clogging inside the tank.