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Service man replaced the waterlogged tank and said all is good. Thanks valveman for the help.

Checked tank under house today finally. Gauge reads 58 lbs so I opened a hose bib and let it run. The pressure never changed after about 4 min. The contacts never clicked on the pressure switch and when I pushed in the schrader valve on the tank water spray out each time I did it. I have plenty...

Can excessive water use cause the footvalve at the bottom of the well to stick and /or the check valve at the tank under the house and cause the above problem. I still don't know the origin of the very loud slap/metallic clap noise under the house where the tank is. It almost sounded like a hot...

Excellent information. I mentioned your valve to the well guy and another plumber a while back because I did research on it. They looked at me like I was a martian. Just old school guys I guess. I will find someone to install one after solving my present problem.

Thanks Valveman. Should I wait to see if there still is a problem first or call someone to check the bladder. It was replaced with the well in 2010. Could it be we just used too much water and need the well to recharge?. Is there a way to test it at the faucet?. It's clear now with good pressure...

Hello. over the weekend I had used the pressure washer quite a bit on Saturday and the wife was topping off the pool water level later the same day Saturday for about a half hour. Also about 4 washer loads were done Saturday as well. Saturday night one shower was taken. Sunday we had no water...

https://terrylove.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=15116&d=1326427585 brass check valve ,line goes to hot 1/2 gravity return.

Just one cold inlet on the bottom.Some Houses around here use a gravity hot 1/2in return plumbed in the bottom inlet, like mine.

coming in the bottom and I need to run the tank out of top cold connection https://terrylove.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4632&stc=1&d=1213293476

Some pictures of my heater The white GE filter on the right is the one with the built in unadvertised check valve causing the need for the expansion tank. The gauge pegged at 115 lbs on recovery.

Thanks for the input. I will post a picture of my( plumbers) set up later tonight.

This was a reply I got on another forum: " You can place an expansion tank anywhere between the check valve and WH". In my case the tank would not be between the check valve and heater if I used the top cold port...true, does this matter?

Hi Terry, thanks for the reply. My tank is bottom fed so I will plumb the expansion tank from the top cold capped off fitting and will work fine in your opinion.

So an expansion tank fed from the top cold port 'dip tube", that is now capped off , would function properly if my heater was fed from the bottom ?. I just need to know if this is a yes or no before I proceed any further. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the replies. I was not going to screw it directly on the tank but mount it on a wall about 3 ft away and above the tank. But an expansion tank fed from the top cold port 'dip tube" would function properly if my heater was fed from the bottom ?. Quote "If your cold water feed line...