Daavewaard
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Friends,
I am back with another question. I do apprecicate all the willing participants here. My brand new 1 1/2 hp pump with check valve either has a failed check valve or something stuck in the valve...as all the water in the house drains back into the well when I turn off the pump. My current thinking, to avoid pulling the pump, is to add a check valve at the tank on a Y or Tee so I could have the new check valve activated or not based on which of two new control valves I have open. That way, if there is something lodged in the pump's check valve and it comes free, I could disable the new check valve at tank level.
Q1. What is the best style check valve to add at my tank level?
Q2. I see the backflow into the well is creating lots of dirty sediment...and I assume there will continue to be some when 200 feet of water (that amount after the new check valve and down to the pump) returns to the well every time the pump stops. Obviously I'm not the first guy with this...what do people do, just live with the sediment problem?
Thanks a million.
I am back with another question. I do apprecicate all the willing participants here. My brand new 1 1/2 hp pump with check valve either has a failed check valve or something stuck in the valve...as all the water in the house drains back into the well when I turn off the pump. My current thinking, to avoid pulling the pump, is to add a check valve at the tank on a Y or Tee so I could have the new check valve activated or not based on which of two new control valves I have open. That way, if there is something lodged in the pump's check valve and it comes free, I could disable the new check valve at tank level.
Q1. What is the best style check valve to add at my tank level?
Q2. I see the backflow into the well is creating lots of dirty sediment...and I assume there will continue to be some when 200 feet of water (that amount after the new check valve and down to the pump) returns to the well every time the pump stops. Obviously I'm not the first guy with this...what do people do, just live with the sediment problem?
Thanks a million.