Sanitizing - Kenmore 625.34857 Owner's Manual

SECTION 1 wATER SOFTENER START-UP
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1D. SANITIZING THE WATER SOFTENER
Care is taken at the factory to keep your water
softener clean and sanitmT. 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 (_ when
installing.
1. The first time you sanidze your softener, be sure
to do all steps in the installation manual, and on
pages 5, d and 7 of this manual first.
2. Lift the salt hole cover and use a pail orhose to fill
the salt storage tank with at least 3 gallons of
water.
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Remove the brinewell cover (FIG. 3) and pour
about 5/4 ounce of common 5.25% household
bleach (Clorox, Linco, BoPeep, White Sail, Eagle,
etc.) in the softener brinewell.
Press the ON/OFF-HOLD button and boldfi_r3
secorzds 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 makes the resin bed (see page ] 1) ready for
service.
NOTES:
This recharge takes about 2 hours.
If the CLEAN feature is set to ON, a cleaning
backwash will occur first (dZEAN and Bkzvsb or
Rirzse flashes in the display), before the sanitizing
recharge. Recharge takes about 2 hours and 15
minutes when the clean feature is on.
You can sanitize the softener with or with-
out salt in the storage tank.
_) Recommended by the Water Qu_flity Associ_/tion. On
some w_/ter supplies, the w_/ter softener m_Lv need peri-
odic disinfecting.
ADD WATER
Salt Hole
Cover
hose
Water,
About 3 Gallons
Brinewell
Cover
(remove and add
about 3/4 oz. bleach)
Brinewell
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