Sanitizing The Water Softener - Kenmore 625.348670 Owner's Manual

Kenmore 625.348670 water softener owner's manual

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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, storage, installing and

operating, bacteria could get into the softener. For

this reason, sanitizing as follows is suggested

installing.

1. The first time you sanitize your softener, be sure

to do all steps in the installation manual, and on

pages 5, 6 and 7 of this manual first.

2. Lift the salt hole cover and use a pail or hose to fill

the salt storage tank with at least 3 gallons of

water.

3. 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 brinewell.

4. Press the ON/OFF-HOLD button and hold for 3

seconds to start a recharge. This first recharge does

several things.

— It draws the bleach into and through the soft-

ener to sanitize it.

— It fills the salt tank to the water level needed.

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

— It prepares the resin bed (see page 13) for ser-

vice.

NOTES:

This recharge takes about 2- 1/2 or 2- 3/4 hours,

depending on the salt type setting (page 7).

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.