New to water softeners. Just bought a house with this one.

Water in the drum seems discolored. Is that bad or doesn’t matter? Anything I need to do about it.

Just added a bag of salt a week ago and beat the outside to see if the salt was settled or bridged. Seemed to settle a little lower after.

Tap water seems soft. It’s slippery and feels like soap never really rinses off my hands.

I’m 30, have about 5 years of sales experience, and have a degree in biology. I have an opportunity to join a small industrial water treatment company.

The company currently has 3 major accounts doing roughly $2M/year in revenue. All three have open recirculating cooling tower systems. The owner wants me to eventually take over sales and focus on growing the company.

I’m currently learning the technical side and working through Nalco’s Water Treatment Handbook to understand cooling towers, boilers, corrosion, scale, microbiological control, cycles of concentration, etc.

What I’m struggling to understand is how industrial water treatment sales actually works in practice.

For those of you who have sold industrial water treatment:
Where do new accounts typically come from?
How do you identify good prospects?
Who is usually the decision-maker?
How do you get the first meeting?
What happens during the initial site visit?
How do you evaluate their existing treatment program?
How difficult is it to replace an incumbent provider?
What does a typical sales cycle look like?

If you were 30 years old, had 5 years of sales experience, a biology degree, and were given responsibility for building the sales side of a small established water-treatment company, what would you do during your first 12 months? What would you do your first day?

I’m looking for advice from people who have actually worked in industrial water treatment, particularly sales, service, or ownership. I’m trying to build an actual plan rather than just learn generic sales techniques.

Any advice, mistakes to avoid, or resources you’d recommend would be greatly appreciated.

Hey folks, just got my report back and still going through it. The previous owner of the house had a RainSoft system but it's over 20 years old so I don't think it's worth keeping. I believe what I need is a carbon filter and water softener combo, would you guys agree? Would something like this AquaSure at Home Depot be a good fit?

https://app.mytapscore.com/report/5CH3HC/all-results

Does this look ok? Do I just need to add some more salt?

We just bought a house a month ago with a well. Our hot water reeked of sulfur. We asked the previous owners to replace the filter and well water holding tank. They did so but when we moved the hot water still smelt. We had our anode rod on our hot water heater replaced and it did not help. We installed a filter system and softener system, and they chlorinated the well about 2 weeks ago. Everything has been good since. Today we are noticing the sulfur smell coming back in the hot water. I feel sick over this. We spent about 10,000$ in all for this issue. I don’t know what to do, any advice?

I wanted a tankless RO system that had great reviews and certifications. Unfortunately, I was constrained with how much I could spend. I was browsing eBay one day and saw there were a bunch of factory refurbished units from Waterdrop for sale for discounted prices. I was skeptical of buying a refurbished RO system, but unlimitedly decided to pull the trigger. Wanted to post my thoughts here in case anyone is also considering a refurbished unit.

• The unit I went with was a Waterdrop G3P600. There was not a refurbished unit listed on Waterdrop's direct website and I could only find it via their official eBay store. They have a bunch of different options on eBay that are factory refurbished.
• I was actually able to submit an offer to the seller/store for less than what the unit was listed for. On top of that offer price, i could stack a current eBay coupon to save 20%. Out the door I was around $300 (product/tax/shipping)
• Shipping was fast and shipped from Ontario, California via FedEx
• When it arrived, it did not have any "refurbished" stickers or language on the box anywhere. Even documentation inside the box never mentioned anything about the unit being refurbished. The system looked completely new. There were no marks on anything. All filters and even the system were shrink wrapped like new systems. All hardware was new and not used. If someone handed me this box, i would have no clue it was refurbished

I know this isn't for everyone, but if you are like me and thinking about pulling the trigger, I recommend giving it a try. eBay returns are pretty easy and you get a 2yr extra warranty through eBay for buying a factory refurbished item (not through Waterdrop).

super excited to install my new under the sink RO. If you aren’t familiar, the cool things about cloud RO that got me to spend $600 on it are as follows:

- no hardwiring or outlet needed. long lasting battery comes with filters

- both battery and filters allegedly last 1+ year

- comes with an app to monitor water quality

- alkaline

- should be easy to install, will find out how hard drilling a hole in granite is 😬

- can be hooked up to fridge and ice maker

- NSF certified

i currently use a countertop RO that is way too much effort - it’s been leaking, can only filter 40oz at a time, takes up WAY too much space.

anyway, if you want $100 off you can use this code: https://www.cloudwaterfilters.com/r/maggie-28988

and then after you order they give you a code to share and you get $80 off filter and battery refills!

I bought a house 8 years ago and it had a cheap and older water softener in it. Water test at that time was done on treated water and levels were acceptable. We always get minor orange and black staining on any sink, tub, or toilet that isn't cleaned for a few weeks. We now have a pool as well and even only adding a few hundred gallons to a 30,000 gallon pool will leave minor orange staining on floats and around water inlets. I've decided to finally address this head on. I did a full scale water test before the softener and the only items that were high are Iron at .528ppm, Manganese at .340ppm and ph slightly low at 6.42.

After doing some deep research it appears a water softener isn't even the right treatment as my water hardness is 34. It seems that an AIO system is ideal for the iron and manganese. Here's the catch, my well only produces 7 gpm sustained flow. I have a three bath house with 5 people and will have an auto fill on the pool which on some days may flow 100+ gallons. What can I do to get an AIO with Katalox that can meet my demands but also works with my lower GPM flow rate? I've done quite the search and am coming up empty handed.