If anybody can give me an idea of whether they think this is fixable or not, I'd really appreciate that. If so, perhaps the lever that controls the valve to shut off the water, is corroded or stuck with built-up waterstone, or something, so it can't shut off. It appears that the tube should fill with water, lift the float, which moves a lever, and should shut OFF the input water at a certain level. It then plugs into the top of a metal valve inside, and there's a float in there. The hose for input water, goes through a nozzle, into this tube. There is a large plastic tube in the corner of the brine tank. It's not really supposed to ever get so full that it will reach the overflow nozzle. I don't know for sure how these work, but after looking it over, it seems to work a LOT like a toilet-tank. The issue is that the tank filled with water, and didn't shut off before doing so. So, in other words, the overflow nozzle did what it was supposed to do. So, what appears to have happened, is that the tank filled up with water, passed the overflow nozzle, and simply ran out on the floor. After looking it over, I noticed that the brine tank, had an overflow nozzle on the back side. It was working, but about 1 week ago, we noticed a lot of water had poured out of the brine tank. When the softener is working, the water tastes better to drink than city water. This is on a WELL, and the water is hard, and has some iron in it. We are the 3rd owners of the house, and it was here when we bought it. We own a "General Ionics" brand salt softener, that's probably about 15 years old.
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