INSTALLATION MANUAL For softeners with DELUXE valve designed for plumbing up to 1 inch Caution: Read and Follow All Safety Rules and Operating Instructions Before First Use of This Product. If you have questions when installing, operating or maintaining your softener, and when setting the timer, call this toll-free number... 1-800-426-9345 UltraSoft Water Softeners • Safety Guides • Unpacking (M - F, 7 am - 8 pm, CST) For repair or replacement parts, call this toll-free number...
This manual gives you the steps needed to install your new Kenmore Water Softener. To better understand how the water softener is installed, and to know what you will need, please read this entire manual before beginning. After you have installed the water softener, the included owner's manual tells you how to start, program, operate and maintain it. The owners manual also has the product warranty, and a listing of repair parts available from Sears.
_,_i_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_i TABLE OFCONTENTS BEFORE INSTALLING i,., i,J j,,J J., J,_ ,., j,,J j,J ,JJ._ J,_f,J ,.,j,,J. J._. i,_,J.I J,_ PAGE NO. Safety Guides 1-1 Unpacking 1-2 C. Water The Water Softener System 1-3 Tests A. Where To Install The Water B. Tools, Pipe and Fittings, C. Typical Soldered D.
SECTION BEFORE INSTALLING 1 CHECKS & TESTS A. SAFETY GUIDES • Read all steps, guides and rules carefully before installing and using your new water softener. Follow all steps exactly to correctly install. Failure to follow them could cause personal injury or property damage. Reading this book will also help you to get all of the benefits from your water softener. S C • Your water softener and "clear shown on manual.
SECTION BEFORE INSTALLING 1 B. UNPACKING THE WATER SOFTENER Directions for unpacking the softener are on the top of the shipping carton. This manual, and the owner's manual, were in the small parts bag. You will need the small parts to install the softener. Keep them in the bag until you are ready to use them so you don't lose any parts. Remove all other cardboard pieces, foam packings, tapes, etc. from the softener and discard. Check the softener find damage, report for shipping damage.
SECTION BEFORE INSTALLING 1 CHECKS & TESTS C. WATER SYSTEM TESTS Has your water supply had a chemical analysis? Please see page A on the inside of the front cover. CHECK YOUR WATER PRESSURE -- For your softener to work right, a water pressure of no lower than 20 pounds per square inch (psi) is needed in the house water pipes. The highest pressure allowed in the water pipes is 125 psi. If pressure is over 125 psi, buy and install a pressure reducing valve in the water inlet pipe to the softener.
SECTION PLAN YOUR INSTALLATION 2 A. WHERE TO INSTALL THE WATER SOFTENER S Think of the following points as you choose a place to put your softener. (see FIG. 2). Place as close as possible to the pressure tank (well water) or water meter (city water). C Place water Do not install in a place where the softener could freeze. Damage caused by freezing voids the warranty by Sears, Roebuck and Co. Put the softener in a place water damage is least likely to occur if it develops a leak.
SECTION , 2 , , I PLAN YOUR INSTALLATION B. TOOLS, PIPE AND FITTINGS, OTHER MATERIALS NEEDED You must first decide how to run in and out pipes to the softener. Look at your house main water pipe at the point you will connect the softener. Is the pipe soldered copper, glued plastic, or threaded galvanized or brass? What is the pipe size? What kind of pipe and fittings is it easiest for you to work with, and what tools do you have? ALWAYS install a bypass valve or valves.
SECTION PLAN YOUR INSTALLATION 2 B. PIPE AND FI'I-rlNGS, _DUR LEFT PLAN DRAWING HOUSE MAIN WATER RPE * RIGHT * In what direction does the water flow? Be sure to plan IN and OUT piping so water flow is to the softener valve inlet. Plan a crossover if flow is from left to right. CROSS-OVER 120V - 60Hz Electrical F_ Outlet VALVE OUTLET SIDE Draw the plans for your In and OUT piping here. Be sure to follow the guides on page 2-2. Include all pipe, fittings and accessories you will use.
SECTION C. TYPICAL SOLDERED PLAN YOUR INSTALLATION 2 COPPER (OR CPVC) IN AND OUT PIPES TO SOFTENER DELUXE VALVE MODELS * 1" NPT X 3/4" Sweat Reducer (2) Outlet VALVE SOFTENER Inlet *NOTE: For 1 in. plumbing _onne_tion, buy 2 sweat adaptors (1 in. female thread x 1 in. sweat) and plumb directly to the inlet- outlet adaptors or bypass valve. Threads on the inlet-outlet adaptors and bypass valve are 1 in. pipe thread.
SECTION D. TYPICAL PLAN YOUR INSTALLATION 2 THREADED IN AND OUT PIPES TO SOFTENER If you are planning a threaded plumbing installation, with a 3-valve bypass, use the drawing in Fig. 4 as a guide. Use union fittings, as needed, to connect the plumbing. DELUXE VALVE MODELS Outside (Raw Water In) FITTINGS REQUIRED NOT IDENTIFIED Union (2) 90 ° Elbow (2) Pipe (as reg.) OUT IN NOTE: It may be easier to slip the pressure fit ground clamps onto the plumbing prior to making all connections permanent.
SECTION3 A. ASSEMBLE S [ INLET-OUTLET Close []Shut supply [ N i,JJ,aJ.J ,JJ,aJ.J ,JJ,a. i,a ,aJ.=J,J ,aJ.=. J i.=.a._._,a the shut-off ADAPTORS, valve on the house main water pipe, near the water meter or pressure tank, to turn off the water. C i,J i.t i,aJ STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL [ i.=.a._. []INSTALL SEARS BYPASS VALVE AND / OR THE INLET OUTLET COPPER TUBES (FIG. 4, 5 AND 6). All needed parts are in the parts bag.
SECTION3 A. ASSEMBLE STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL INLET-OUTLET ADAPTORS, OR PLASTIC BYPASS VALVE DELUXE VALVE MODELS INSTALLING BYPASS VALVE, and/or INLET and OUTLET COPPER TUBES Before ins'telling the bypass valve, or copper tube, be sure the turbine and support are firmly in place in the valve outlet port.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL B. INSTALL 3-VALVE BYPASS _l INSTALLING 3 VALVE BYPASS AND IMPORTANT: PIPES (FIG. 9) O Cut the house main water pipe where you will connect the softener. Loosely put together pipe, fittings, and the 3 valves. Place valve(s) within easy reach. When looking at the front of the softener, the inlet is on the right side. If water in your house main water pipe runs from left to right, be sure to use a "cross-over" as shown on page 2-3.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL C. LOCATE WATER SOFTENER, []MOVE THE SOFTENER INTO AND CONNECT PLACE MOVE PIPES SOFTENER INTO PLACE Move the softener into place, onto a level and smooth surface. If needed, put a piece of 3/4" plywood, at least 17" x 20", under the tank. Then put spacers under the plywood to level the softener. Do not put shims or spacers directly under the tank, without the plywood.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL D. CONNECT ffi CONNECT THE VALVE DRAIN VALVE AND SALT TANK DRAINS HOSE • Take a length of 3 / 8" inside diameter drain tubing and attach one end to the drain fitting (FIG. 12). Use a tube clamp to hold it in place. Put the other end of the tubing over a floor drain, into a laundry tub, standpipe, or other suitable drain. Check your local codes. • Leave an air gap of about 1-1/2" between the end of the hose and the drain.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL D. CONNECT []CONNECT BING 0 @ O 0 SALT TANK VALVE AND SALT TANK DRAINS OVERFLOW TU- The salt tank overflow is for safety only, If the salt tank should overfill with water, the over- Take the rubber grommet, tube adaptor and tube clamp (FIG. 12) that are in the parts bag. flow tubing Push the grommet into the hole in the salt tank wall so half is inside and half is outside. Push the bigger grommet.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL E. PRESSURE [] TEST / CHECK FOR LEAKS HOUSE MAIN WATER SHUTOFF VALVES CAUTION: To avoid water or air pressure damage to softener inner parts, and to flush pipe chips or other residue from the water pipes, be sure to do the following steps exactly as instructed. Look at the picture bypass valve(s). in FIG. 15 showing your Shutoff o,or kind of Pressure Pump []Fully il_ open two cold, the softener.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL F. GROUNDING []INSTALL GROUNDING THE SOFTENER IN AND The house often used / CONNECT WIRE BETWEEN OUT PIPES cold water pipe (iron to ground all electrical or copper) is outlets in the home. Outlets are grounded to protect you from shock when you touch any electric appliance plugged into the outlet. If you installed the single bypass valve (FIG. 15), the cold water pipe ground is broken.
SECTION3 STEP BY STEP GUIDES TO INSTALL F. GROUNDING []PLUG Plug / CONNECT TO ELECTRICAL IN THE TRANSFORMER the transformer POWER CONNECTING into the electrical TRANSFORMER outlet. Transformer 120V-6OHz Electrical OuUet Power Cable from Face Plate-_mer After installing your water softener, replace the covers. For the UltraSoft 100, first position the main cover on the softener. Then, set the salt hole cover into the main cover, and lower dosed.
