How a Water Softener Works: Ion Exchange Without the Chemistry Degree, Plus the Resin Spec Nobody at Home Depot Knows
A water softener works on one principle: calcium and magnesium ions prefer bonding to a charged resin bead over staying dissolved in your water. Salt breaks that bond during regeneration and resets the beads for the next round. That mechanism is not complicated. What nobody explains at the box store is the resin specification, specifically … Read more