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Water Softener Installation in Brampton

A softener is a plumbing job as much as an appliance: it needs a clean tie-in to the main line, a bypass, a drain and enough room to add salt.

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  • The cost is settled before tools come out.
  • Drop cloths down, floors left dry.
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Is soft water worth it here?

Most of Brampton is supplied by the Region of Peel with treated water drawn from Lake Ontario, which falls in the moderately hard range. Many homeowners live with it happily. Others want a softener because of scale on glass shower doors, short life from tankless water heater heat exchangers or dry skin. The Region publishes current hardness figures; we use the number for your area to set the unit.

Where it goes in the basement

The softener belongs after the main shut-off and meter but before the water heater. The outside tap and sometimes the kitchen cold line are kept on hard water for drinking and the garden, depending on your preference. It needs a floor drain or laundry standpipe nearby for the regeneration discharge and a level, dry spot for the brine tank.

The install, step by step

  1. Close the main valve and empty the basement piping.
  2. Cut in a three-valve or manufacturer bypass so the unit can be isolated for service.
  3. Connect inlet and outlet in copper or PEX, observing the flow arrows.
  4. Run the drain line with an air gap to the floor drain or standpipe and fit the brine tank overflow.
  5. Restore any electrical bonding jumper across the cut section of copper.
  6. Program hardness, start a regeneration and check every joint under pressure.
Salt and resin. Keep the brine tank at least a third full and check for a salt bridge every month or two. A crust across the tank stops the softener working while the salt still looks full.

Filters and other treatment

If you want better-tasting drinking water, an under-sink filter or reverse osmosis unit at the kitchen sink is a smaller job. We fit the faucet, the drain saddle and the tank, and show you how to change cartridges.

Signs you need this job

  • Rust-coloured hot water
  • Popping or rumbling during heating
  • Water pooled under the tank
  • Hot water running out early

On the job, in order

  1. Close gas and cold supply, drain the tank to the floor drain
  2. Disconnect venting, gas and water connections
  3. Set the new heater level with a new T&P discharge pipe
  4. Light, check every joint and test the draft

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