Sanitizing The Water Softener - Kenmore 625.3485400 Owner's Manual

Kenmore water softeners 625.3485400, 625.3485500 owner's manual

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Owner's manual (32 pages)

Table Of Contents

Table of Contents

SECTION 1

1D.

Care is taken at the factory to keep your water

softener clean and sanitary. Materials used to

make the softener will not infect or contaminate

your water supply, and will not cause bacteria to

form or grow. However, during shipping, stor-

age, installing and operating, bacteria could get

into the softener. For this reason, sanitizing as

follows is suggested

Lift the salt hole cover and use a pail or hose

to fill the salt storage tank with at least 3

gallons of water.

Remove the brinewell cover (FIG. 3) and

pour about 3/4 ounce of common 5.25%

household bleach (Clorox, Linco, BoPeep,

White Sail, Eagle, etc.) in the softener brine-

well.

Press the ON/OFF-HOLD button and hold for

3 seconds to start a recharge. This first re-

charge does several things.

— It draws the bleach into and through the

softener to sanitize it.

— It fills the salt tank to the water level need-

ed.

— It gets all the air out of the resin tank.

— It makes the resin bed (see page 11) ready

for service.

NOTES:

This recharge takes about 2 hours.

You can sanitize the softener with or with-

out salt in the storage tank.

Recommended by the Water Quality Association. On

some water supplies, the water softener may need pe-

riodic disinfecting.