Purolite C-100E Cationic Resin Replacement for Water Softener 1 CuFt Bag Media

First time I repaired a water softener. Our 8 year old whirlpool water softener was previously restricting water pressure into the house and no longer softening water. After watching some videos, disassembly of water softener was relatively easy and replacement of resin was not difficult either. Water softener is now softening water and water pressure is normal. I will continue monitor, but 2 weeks later resin replacement was worth it vs replacing the entire water softener.

Got this for my 10 year old water softener. We have alot of iron in our well water and it clogged up our softener even though we installed in Iron filter before it.(though it was installed after the softener was already there at the house. This doesn't look like the same stuff coming out of the existing softener but it does the job. I didn't want to replace the entire system, just the "media" and this does the job at 1/3 the price of the new system. My softener has an auto setting where it reads how much water you use and you tell it the hardness of the water. It only runs the purge cycle once in about a week or two depending on how much water we use. Some of the older old school softener are wasteful of the sult and does the recharge every few days or whatever even if you go on vacation.

My Kenmore 300 was on its last lap, the rinser tube came lose inside the resin tank and salt water would flow from our faucets for an hour and then only hard water. After I installed an Aquasure Fortitude2 triple filter (catches iron) on the main line, I proceeded to take the unit apart, washed out the salt tank (50lb of old dirt and stagnant salt at bottom), siliconed the top diffuser into the rinser tube (making sure top firmly contacts the bottom of valve), replaced seals, and Ego wet vacuumed out the old resin bed, cleaned tank then filled up to 3/4 of height using about 80% of the 1 cu ft Purolite bag. OMG, within 48h much needed foam galore, OH water went down from 255 to 0. TIPS:1. Put a 3" tube into the feeding opening and duct tape it to edge, use a wide funnel, and patience, climb atop a small ladder so your arms don't tire, and keep milking the resin beads.2. WET THE RESIN BED FIRST, i.e. avoid trying to forcibly push the rinser tube or you could fracture the bottom diffuser (beads in house water), instead pour water and float the beads first shaking it with a stick, the rinser tube will now penetrate with ease to allow a good seal with valve on top.Sigh relief: Paid $140 to save $1000 (was going to get a Clack SW1 valve one if repair failed).

As advertised ! Product was perfect !

Installed a week ago, softener is working again. Will do a long term review in 6 months.Symptom was low water pressure which was caused by the resin beads breaking down (turned to mush) which is caused by chlorine in the water supply (per the internet). One way to check is to engage the bypass valve and compare. Before buying new resin take apart softener to ensure nothing else is broken.Now my softener is a high capacity and required 1.1 ft^3, this was only 1.0 so to compensate increased hardness by 10%. Eazy Peezy.To change out resin check YouTube. I took everything apart as I had dirt in the salt well and brine well which I wanted to clean out which was beyond what the videos showed. If you are use to working on stuff and have some experience with plumbing job is doable. I vacuumed out the resin tank with shop vac/long pipe and rinsed out with water. Resin gets everywhere, don’t get it into the fresh water section of softener, work slowly. My softener is 15 years old, hoping to get another 8-10 years. $800 to replace, resin was $120. Easy decision. Job took about 3 hours.

This pops up as a possible substitute for CR Spotless Resin. It does not filter enough particles for spotless washes.

I needed to rebed my softener mineral tank. Did some research and decided to take on the task myself. This resin was highly recommended due to the higher percentage (10%) concentration for our water supply. It took a little effort, but saved a lot of $$ doing it myself.

My 3 year old Morton water softener was good the first year, then gradually got to the point no matter how many times it was cycled and replaced parts, it did not produce any soft water anymore. I was going to replace the entire water softener but decided to try replacing the resin beads inside the tank. If you have a wet shop vac and handy repairing things, this is actually an easy job. The softener was 34k capacity and one bag of Purolite filled it up with some left over. After replacing the resin, it ran the nearest sink for 10 minutes- water ran clean after a few minutes. Some people state a wierd taste but I really did not notice anything, it took a few days of use and now its clean, nice soft water again.