Check your water pressure before installing, Nstallation, Plan your installation – Kenmore 625.3835 User Manual

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Plan Your Installation

CHECK YOUR WATER PRESSURE BEFORE INSTALLING

For your water softener to work properly, incoming

water pressure in your house pipes must be no lower

than 20 pounds per square inch (psi). The highest

allowable pressure is 125 psi. If pressure is above 125

psi, buy and install a pressure reducing valve in the

pipe supplying water to the softener’s inlet.

NOTE: If water pressure during the day is 100 psi or

more, pressure during the night may go above

125 psi.

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INSTALL SINGLE BYPASS VALVE AND/OR THREADED INSTALLATION ADAPTORS

SINGLE BYPASS VALVE:

Complete the following steps to assemble the adaptors

and/or the included single bypass valve.

1. Close the shutoff valve on the house main water pipe,

near the water meter or pressure tank, to turn off the

water.

2. Shut off the gas or electric supply to the water

heater.

3. Open the highest and lowest water faucets in your

house. This will let water drain from the pipes.

Close faucets after water has drained.

4. Remove the top cover. Pull outward on the two tabs

to release top cover (see Fig. 5). The salt lid remains

attached to the top cover when removed. Set both

covers aside so they will not get scratched or broken.

Salt Lid

Top Cover

6.

Push the bypass valve into the softener valve’s inlet

and outlet ports as far as it will go. Snap the two

large holding clips into place, from the top down as

shown (see Fig. 8).

CAUTION: Be sure the clips snap firmly into place so

the bypass valve will not pull out.

INLET AND OUTLET THREADED ADAPTORS:

7. Push the adaptors into the valve inlet and outlet

ports, or bypass valve ports, as far as they will go.

Both adaptors are the same and fit either port. Snap

the two large holding clips into place, as shown (see

Fig. 8).

CAUTION: Be sure the clips snap firmly into place so

the adaptors will not pull out.

Clips

Threaded

Installation

Adaptors

Figure 5

5. Visually check and remove any foreign mate­

rials from the valve inlet and outlet ports (see

Fig. 6). Carefully remove the two large plastic

clips (you will use them). Check to be sure

the turbine and support are firmly in place

(see Fig. 7).

NOTE: If you will not install the included bypass

valve because you will have a 3-valve

bypass in your plumbing, skip step 6, but

perform step 7.

Single

Bypass Valve

Figure 6

Questions? Call the Kenmore Water Line 1-800-426-9345 or visit www.kenmorewater.com

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