Hello, I just found this forum and look for inputs from experts. My wife and I just bought a new house last year. We have been wanting to put a Water Softener system for a while. We had the Culligan and Rayne stop by and quote around $2700. Then my neighbour bought the Fleck 7000 system for about $650 and had it installed by a local plumber. The plumber charged aroud $530 to install. I am looking to go the same route but find the $530 to install on the high side. My new house already is pre-plumbed and has a loop to connect the softener. The pipes are 1 1/4" so the Fleck 7000 choice. My question is - what will a true cost be for install? - What grain softener should I buy (2 people with at times guests for total of 5 ppl. hardness max is about 15)? - Also, is it a must to have an RO system? We have been using the filtered water from fridge and have had no problem. I am in the SF Bay Area, so if anyone has any local suggestions, please suggest PM or email me. Thanks

Hello, I have a rental house with a Kenmore 625.348470 water softener that has been having problems. I have replaced the venturi and nozzle & venturi seal. On a separate occasion I replaced the rotor and disc along with all of the seals and o-rings. I performed the manual advance regeneration check as directed by the manual to verify things were working correctly. After this I thought everything was fine. The tenant is telling me that the water softener is still not using salt. I am about to replace the entire unit. Is there something else that I am leaving out and that maybe the unit is just not cycling. It seems to work fine when running it manually. Thanks