Sanitizing - GE GXSS20H Owner's Manual & Installation Instructions

Step-by-step installation instructions.
Sanitizing Procedures
Care is taken at the factory to keep your softener clean
and sanitary. Materials used to make the softener will not
infect or contaminate your water supply and will not cause
bacteria to form or grow. However, during shipping,
storage, installing and operating, bacteria could get into
the softener. For this reason, sanitizing as follows is
suggested when installing.
NOTE: Sanitizing is recommended by the Water Quality
Association for disinfecting.
Be sure to complete all installation steps, including
1
timer programming.
Remove the brinewell cover (see Fig. 8) and pour
2
about 3/4 ounce (1
household bleach (Clorox, Linco, BoPeep, White Sail,
Eagle, etc.) in the softener brinewell.
Press the TOUCH or HOLD button and hold for 3
3
seconds to start a recharge. This first recharge does
several things: fills the salt tank to the water level
needed, gets all the air out of the resin tank, makes
the resin bed ready for service. See the Recharging
section.
4 If after sanitation, water from house faucet tastes salty
or has a slight color, this is a preservative from the
resin tank. Turn on the cold soft water faucets and
drain for a few minutes or until clear.
NOTE: This recharge takes about 2 hours.
NOTE: When the above sanitizing regeneration is over,
all remaining bleach is flushed from the conditioner
and your house COLD water supply is fully soft
immediately. However, your water heater is filled with
hard water and as hot water is used, it will refill with soft
water. When all the hard water is replaced in the water
heater, hot only and mixed hot and cold water will be
fully soft. If you want totally soft water immediately, after
the above regeneration, drain the water heater until the
water runs cold.
WARNING:
use extreme care as the hot water could cause burns.
Turn the water heater off prior to draining.
10
1 ⁄ tablespoons) of common 5.25%
2
If you do drain the water heater,
Fig. 8
Salt hole cover
removed
Water, about
3 gallons
Brinewell
cover (remove
and add about
3/4 oz. bleach)
Brinewell