Annual Multipoint Inspection & Recalibration
All water softening, conditioning a filtration systems will degrade at a minimum rate of
1% – 3% per year when protected with performance enhancing additives such as Pur-
Gard. Without specialty additives, this attrition could be as high as 15% per year. This
natural, universal attrition is made worse by chlorine, iron & heavy metals. The
Multipoint inspection is designed to check your water system and confirm that it is
functioning according to factory specifications. Your Affordable Soft Water technician is
fully equipped with the latest computer-assisted tools to recalibrate, repair, rebuild or
replace your water system as needed.
Water Softener, Conditioner, Home Filtration & Home Empowered Water System
Tune-up Service
Tune-ups are the most effective way to ensure your system is operating at maximum
efficiency and that you proactively protect it from attrition and major repair problems.
Our tune-up service includes complete water testing with certified methods, system
calibration, addition of Pur-Gard, and comprehensive system calibration for maximum
salt/water efficiency.
Software Update Service
We are factory certified to apply the latest Digital Lifestyle and Evertech software
updates, ensuring that your system is functioning at peak levels of efficiency while
maximizing your equipment resale value.
Routine Equipment Maintenance
We can perform routine maintenance on all brands to help lengthen the lifespan of your
system, enhance salt efficiency and provide you with the water quality that you deserve
at an affordable price.
System Repair Service
When hard water finally starts getting the better of your system, we are there to help.
We can repair, rebuild or replace your system as necessary, according to your budget.
New System Installations
We have all the latest water softeners, conditioners, filtration and Home Empowered
Water Systems. We have access to some of the very best equipment and
components; including Intermountain, Autotrol/GE, Clack, Erie, and Pentair.
Understanding Resin
Attrition
“The presence of free chlorine or other oxidizing agents in the feed water can lead to
resin degradation over time. The maximum recommended levels of free chlorine are
0.3 ppm to / > 30C). Iron and other heavy metals catalyze the oxidative
degradation of cation exchange resins. Oxidation of strong acid cation exchange
resins, causes de-crosslinking of the polymer matrix, leading to an increase in the
water retention capacity of the resin and resin swelling. This may cause a weakening
of the mechanical integrity of the resin and loss of wet volume capacity.
Temperature, chlorine concentration, and the presence of heavy metals impacts the
rate of resin oxidation and de-crosslinking. Like chlorine, chloramines, chlorine dioxide
and ozone also have oxidizing potential. Chlorine dioxide has a somewhat greater
oxidizing effect on resin and chloramines have a somewhat lesser oxidizing effect than
chlorine.”
DOW Corporation
All regular ion-exchange based water softening, conditioning and filtration systems can
degrade at a minimum average rate of 5% – 15% per year without performance
enhancing additives. In fact, some systems may have even faster attrition rates.
Structured Matrix resins will tend to have the slowest attrition rate.
This natural attrition loss causes a reduction in functional resin capacity. Physical
resin loss can also occur, but doesn’t always necessarily occur at the same rate.
Attrition loss should be compensated for every year by adjusting your system capacity
or augmenting the resin bed with additional ion exchange media.
Attrition is exacerbated by factors such as high water consumption, inadequate
regenerations, elevated chlorine levels, iron & heavy metals in water as well as other
complicating factors.
Common Symptoms of Resin Attrition
1. Your water doesn’t feel as good as it should every day
2. Slight to major water pressure drop
3. Possible water discoloration in severe cases
4. Your system needs to clean more often than before to provide uniformly soft water
The Solution to Resin Attrition
During your annual multipoint inspections or tune-ups, system programming can simply
be adjusted to accommodate for normal, expected resin attrition. If you are
particularly water quality conscious, you could also augment your existing resin bed to
accommodate for attrition loss.