[jimbye4]

I recently bought a 2 year old condo that had been empty for over a year. The water was shut off which was fine, but the water softener was empty apart from about a foot of dirty water in the bottom. I bailed this out, but what do I do now. Put salt in & hope it works.
Can someone please help.

[mygirlsdad77]

Yep, make sure tank is as clean as you can get it, add salt and you should be set.

[water_doctor]

Mygirlsdad77 is right. Clean out the brine tank, make sure that the softener is not by-passed so that water is going into the softener. (look where the pipes go into and out of your softener, there should be either a dial to push in, or valves to open, or a lever to slide) Then once you put the salt in, I would run it through a manual regeneration cycle TWICE. Each one takes about an hour and a half. If you are not sure how to do that tell us what type of softener you have and we can walk you through it.
Hope this helps