Neutralizer for Filter Media

I let my acid neutralizer maintenance go for about five years because the company that sold me my neutralizer and softener were bought out by a company whose name starts with a "C" and rhymes with Mulligan. I reflexively reject calls from that company because of a bad experience from many many years ago. When I finally realized that the sale had happened and that rejecting those calls meant that I was not servicing my unit, I sheepishly did some online research on what the annual service calls addressed. I had watched the techs do their maintenance work on service calls before, and the online information matched and made perfect sense. I bought two buckets of this media to get free shipping, it arrived on-time, and I followed instructions I found online to fill my neutralizer with space to spare to accommodate the backwash cycle. The media is nowhere near as powdery as what the servicing company would use to refill, and the amount I used to make up for the five years of missed maintenance cost less than a quarter of what I had been paying for annual maintenance calls. Our water is much softer than it was before I added this media since low pH inhibited the softener from doing its thing. Happy wife, happy life! What is left of the two buckets I bought should be enough to keep my system working for the next fifteen years. Thank you to SupplyHouse for making these products available to us non-contractors at a fair price. The minor complaint I have about this order is that the buckets were packaged in cardboard boxes. The UPS driver and I both said that the cardboard made no sense since the cartons collapsed from the weight of the buckets. The driver said he is used to delivering sealed buckets not in cardboard boxes and would prefer to move buckets around his truck by their integrated handles.

This product is blend of calcium carbonate and magnesium oxide. According to the 3M MSDS data sheet it is premixed at a ratio of anywhere from 70/30% to 85/15%. Magnesium oxide is aka Flomag or Corosex and in high percentages, Flomag will dramatically raise your water Ph much faster than calcium carbonate alone. Suggest that purchasers google the available online data sheets to prevent over buffering their potable water Ph.