JVance
Homeowner
Setup: Shallow well, jet pump, 120 gallon bladderless tank.
Problem: Too much air in the tank, too little water...draws down until air is introduced into house plumbing.
This has been a reoccurring problem over the years, usually noticing small amounts of air in the house plumbing following the backflow/regeneration of our iron filter overnight (indicating the iron filter completely drew down the system until water from the house flowed back to the storage tank?). Once or twice per year it's bad enough that I have to shut off the pump and purge the tank.
This style of air volume control valve (Brady) was installed with the tank, located half-way up the tank:
I replaced the valve a few years back (suspecting a bad valve was the problem), but this did not help. I recently read a post from another member on this forum who claimed that the valve 'with the line that returns to the pump' only lets air into the tank. Is this, in fact, the case with this style of valve?
Would this type of valve be the solution?
Or should I add some other valve to the top of the tank to purge the excess air?
Thanks in advance!
Problem: Too much air in the tank, too little water...draws down until air is introduced into house plumbing.
This has been a reoccurring problem over the years, usually noticing small amounts of air in the house plumbing following the backflow/regeneration of our iron filter overnight (indicating the iron filter completely drew down the system until water from the house flowed back to the storage tank?). Once or twice per year it's bad enough that I have to shut off the pump and purge the tank.
This style of air volume control valve (Brady) was installed with the tank, located half-way up the tank:
I replaced the valve a few years back (suspecting a bad valve was the problem), but this did not help. I recently read a post from another member on this forum who claimed that the valve 'with the line that returns to the pump' only lets air into the tank. Is this, in fact, the case with this style of valve?
Would this type of valve be the solution?
Or should I add some other valve to the top of the tank to purge the excess air?
Thanks in advance!