The grand total? Over $700 before tax and that’s just for the parts – installation would be extra and who knows what else might be broken now due to the high pressure water that was spraying the electrical control unit, etc. This morning I called Sears Home Central and got pricing on the parts required to fix/replace the resin tank and associated parts. Right now I’ve got the whole house water turned off at the water meter until I can get at least the bypass valve replace. This is causing major problems as I can’t leave my household water turned on. Internally the valve is not completely closed as there is still water flowing into the resin tank. I’ve got a constant fast drip coming from the valve outside of the tank. To top it all off, the silly little plastic bypass valve is leaking both internally and externally. With a cracked resin tank, the water isn’t contained and is freely flowing out into the brine tank and onto the floor (in my case). The problem with a cracked resin tank is that all of the water for the house typically goes through the resin tank to get softened before going to any of the faucets. Basically, the resin tank is inside the brine tank. The Kenmore water softener is a “tank in tank” design. It turns out that the resin tank (can alternatively be called a mineral tank on some models) has ruptured. The Boss quickly shut the bypass valve and the water stopped flowing out of the water softener. Water was starting to creep across the basement floor. Luckily, the majority of the water had made it into the sump hole and was being contained but it was past the point of overflowing. The Boss came home yesterday to discover that there was a lot of water coming out of our Kenmore water softener onto the basement floor.
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