Softener Spear

Easily break apart the salt bridge in your water softener’s salt tank

Stop shoving a broom handle into your salt tank. Simply push and twist the Softener Spear to break apart your salt bridge.

✅ Improved water softener function

✅ Easily break apart salt bridge

✅ Confidence inspiring tactile feedback

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When water softeners don’t use salt, they can’t function properly

When you have a water softener in your home, you expect it to work properly. It should remove calcium and magnesium to soften your water. This benefits your home by preventing hard water stains on your faucets, showers, appliances, and glassware.

If your water softener isn’t delivering the desired results, there may be a problem in the salt tank. First, ensure that salt is filled to the manufacturer's recommended level. Sometimes, even if it looks like the salt tank is full, there can be a problem deeper in the tank. A salt bridge is not visible from the surface of the tank, but if allowed to grow, a salt bridge will diminish the effectiveness of the water softener. This may negate an appliance that costs hundreds or thousands of dollars, and risks damaging the rest of the appliances in your house.

Monitor you salt tank for a salt bridge by tracking the frequency that salt is added. If your water softener doesn’t use salt, then, you likely have a salt bridge.

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Benefits

Efficient
Quickly drive the fork to the depth of the salt bridge
Tactile feedback
Solid stainless steel handle gives immediate feel to what’s going on below the surface of the salt
Simple to use
Ergonomically designed handle allows for comfortable one or two handed grips

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Features

Curved prong on fork pulls tool into the salt
Curved end to avoid catching on salt tank
Stainless steel construction

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FAQs

How often will I need to use the Softener Spear?

A: I will depend on the frequency of salt bridge formation in your water softener. Variables that can effect a salt bridge formation include humidity, frequency of water regeneration, and purity of salt.

What is a salt bridge?

What is salt mushing?

Will it damage my water softener?

A. The Softener Spear is made of hard 304 stainless steel and a typical salt tank is made of plastic, so care should be taken to avoid pushing of plastic components with the tool. Design features have been included to best reduce the risk of damage inside the salt tank. The tips of the fork are rounded and the salt buster prong curves inward at the end to minimize the risk of it catching on the tank or components within.