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How to Restart a Water Softener

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Hollan Johnson
Hollan Johnson
Published: Jan 12, 2011
Updated: Nov 20, 2021
1 minute read

  1. Turn off your water softener.

  2. Remove the salt keeper from you water softener and add more water softener salt to the keeper. Make sure the keeper is almost empty before you add more salt to it.

  3. Pour 3 gallons of water into the salt keeper to help dissolve the salt after you added it.

  4. Turn your water softener back on.

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Hollan Johnson

Hollan Johnson is a freelance writer and contributing editor for many online publications. She has been writing professionally since 2008 and her interests are travel, gardening, sewing and Mac computers. Prior to freelance writing,…

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