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Shallow well lift - air Valveman, Thanks for your quick reply. Your answer seems to imply it's not possible to keep all air out of the line, even if all connections are tight. Is that a good interpretation? Your explanation of a gradual incline might explain why my existing line starts...

I have a shallow well pump, located in the house, which is built on slab. I understand that the lifting ability of the average pump is 25 to 29 feet. Am considering laying a new supply line from the well to the house, but to avoid cutting concrete, want to enter the front of the house, go up 8...

Losing water pressure Gary, I hate to bother you again -- you've been so helpful already. I'm really tempted to use the PVC because I've had such rotten luck with clamping the elbow connections on the PE pipe. What is your reason for preferring PE over PVC for the drop pipe? You make...

Slowing losing water pressure Gary, Thanks for the answer and advice. Does it seem reasonable to replace the pipe in the well and a couple of feet outside the well with PVC? I don't mind the work and it would eliminate two barbed fittings from the line. I keep thinking that the elbow...

speedbump, Thanks for the reply. Let me ask you about another possibility -- in the line from the well to the house, there is a transition from 3/4 to 1" pipe. I don't know where it is. It seems like a leak possibility, but I hate to look for it without some idea of where it might be...

I have a shallow well system with pump and tank inside the house. The system has, for some time, been finding air somewhere along the way. More troublesome is that the system is now losing pressure slowly, most noticeable overnight. The drop rate is about 1 psi per hour, or about .3 gallons...