It is not iron. It is not sediment. It is not your pipes. Your Puronics resin is breaking down — and chloramines in your city water are the cause. This site explains exactly what is happening and what you can do about it today.
Check how many of these symptoms apply. The more you recognize, the more urgent it is to stop using your system and get it assessed.
The most obvious sign. Yellow, amber, or tea-tinted water from softened taps is almost always degraded resin polymer leaching into your water supply — not iron, not sediment.
A faint plastic or chemical odor that was not there before. Degrading resin releases organic compounds that affect both taste and smell throughout the home.
Water feels hard again. Scale is returning on fixtures and appliances. The resin has lost its ion exchange capacity as the polymer structure breaks down.
As resin beads fragment and break apart they cause channeling in the resin bed — constricting flow and dropping water pressure throughout the entire home.
Tiny brown or yellowish particles visible in a clear glass. These are fragmented resin beads that have passed through the system's distributor screen.
Standard 8% cross-linked resin exposed to chloramines typically degrades within 3–7 years. If your Puronics system is older than 5 years, resin failure is highly probable.
This is not a fluke. It is a predictable chemical process. Any softener using standard 8% cross-linked resin in a chloramine water system will eventually fail this way.
Orlando, Daytona Beach, Deltona, Palm Coast, Sanford and most of Central Florida use chloramines as a secondary disinfectant. Check your annual Consumer Confidence Report or call your water utility to confirm.
The percentage of divinylbenzene (DVB) crosslinking determines how resistant the resin is to chloramine attack.
Lower DVB content. More porous structure. More vulnerable to chloramine penetration. Cheaper to manufacture. Fails within 3–7 years in chloramine water.
Higher DVB content. Tighter polymer structure. Greater oxidative stability. Purpose-built to resist chloramine attack. Significantly longer service life.
Once resin degradation starts, it accelerates. The more the resin breaks down, the less it can protect itself. Running the system longer only introduces more polymer fragments into your water. The system needs to be serviced or replaced — not adjusted, re-salted, or ignored.
Whether you want to restore your existing system or upgrade to something built for Florida's water — we have an honest solution for you.
If your Puronics tank and valve are in sound condition, we replace the degraded resin bed with chloramine-resistant 10% cross-linked resin — purpose-built for Florida's municipal water systems.
Trade in your failing Puronics system and upgrade to a new, higher-quality water softener with 10% chloramine-resistant resin — built specifically for Central Florida's water chemistry.
No pressure. No surprise fees. Straightforward service from local Central Florida water treatment experts.
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Resin replacement or full trade-in — honest pricing on both. Zero pressure. You decide what is right for you.
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Every day it runs, more degraded resin enters your water. Get a free diagnostic — we will tell you exactly what is wrong and give you honest options.