MrStoogewrench
New Member
My son just bought a house in eastern PA, and just moved in this past weekend, having spent the previous 3 weeks getting it ready. About 2 weeks ago he had the submersible pump replaced due to low water pressure. This past weekend he was having problems with pressure fluctuating wildly between 25 and 30 lbs, which I found to be really bad connections at the pressure switch. After fixing that, the pressure rose steadily, but very slowly to 50 lbs, and would not go any higher. The switch is a 60/40, so the pump would not shut off. I told him that there was either a problem with the pump or there was a leak somewhere between the pump and the house, and that he should call the people that replaced the pump. They came out later and said that it was leaking at the pitless adapter, and since they had not done any work on it that it would not be a warranty issue. They said that including the current service call (it was a Sunday), the cost to replace the adapter would be around $2000, since they had to bring in their excavator.
Now obviously they had to separate the adapter to get the pump out, and it very well could have cracked during that operation since it was installed in 1982. If they had seen it then they still would have had to excavate and I would expect that cost to be passed on to my son, since it was probably not due to negligence on their part. It just seems that the price is somewhat high, and I can rent an excavator for $300 for the weekend, so we will repair this ourselves.
But my real question is this. I looked down the casing, and from what I can see it looks like the part that is leaking is the pump half of the adapter. Is it kosher to replace just the pump half of the adapter?
Now obviously they had to separate the adapter to get the pump out, and it very well could have cracked during that operation since it was installed in 1982. If they had seen it then they still would have had to excavate and I would expect that cost to be passed on to my son, since it was probably not due to negligence on their part. It just seems that the price is somewhat high, and I can rent an excavator for $300 for the weekend, so we will repair this ourselves.
But my real question is this. I looked down the casing, and from what I can see it looks like the part that is leaking is the pump half of the adapter. Is it kosher to replace just the pump half of the adapter?