Question How's this Filter setup

[mswanson]

I am hooking up a VU-Flow filter,
this is for a well that occasionally has sand
problems during droughts.
location is northern Florida

Pressure tank is in a storage room
off the garage

Pipe Sizes are
1" galv out of pressure tank
3/4 Galv then to 3/4 copper
with 1" PVC male fitting threaded into the
3/4 galv pipe

Was wondering if this setup is ok the way it is
or is there a better way to hook in the PVC
sediment filter

 

[Jadnashua]

Can't comment on filter, but will ask "why use galvanized?". It will rust eventually leading to problems, whereas most other things won't.

 

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[Gary Slusser]

Dittos on what Jim said, IMO galvanized should be outlawed for potable water use but.... how are you getting "sand" out of the pressure tank? And why not drain'n flush the tank once in awhile instead of filtering the water that comes out of it? Or work on getting the sand out of the well?

 

[Bill Arden]

I've never been able to get threaded PVC fittings to not leak.

I would recommend staying with PVC and then using a PVC to brass or copper coupler.

 

[mswanson]

>why use galvanized

The library books I checked out on plumbing
said the pipes you can use cpvc, copper, galvanized.

The reason I went with Galv was my Aunt stores lawn tools
in this room and I thought the galv would be better in case
a shovel might hit it.

I haven't connected anything up yet so I can still switch
to something else. So would CPVC or copper be the
thing to use?

>why not drain'n flush the tank once in awhile instead

The Well guy said to do that too, there is a coupling on the back
of the tank but not the front so I will have to cut the copper
to get the tank out and will install a coupler on the front.
Since I am cutting the copper I thought it would be a good
time to stick a sediment filter on so when the tank
starts to fill up with sand, we would know it's time to flush
the tank out again. before the sand gets into the plumbing
system and screws up the faucet seals.

>Or work on getting the sand out of the well?

My Aunt has had a few Well guys come out and the general
consensus is with Floridas water table bouncing around, that
amount of sand was normal, and since the pump is
22 years old that it would be a waste of money to pull the
pump out and to wait till it starts to die then replace the pump
and rework the well.

>I would recommend staying with PVC and then using
>a PVC to brass or copper coupler.

I didn't know that existed, I asked the guy at the
plumbing store the best way to connect PVC to copper
and he recommended the PVC threaded male adapter
would I be able to get this (PVC to brass coupler )
at Home Depot or Lowes?

Here are some pictures of the front and back of
pressure tank a friend of my Aunts replaced it
13 years ago it was a little different size and he had
to use bricks to get it at the right height

Thanks for the advice so far

 

[Gary Swart]

Well, since it appears to be a done deal, all we are arguing now is academic. I would never use galvanized for any water plumbing including drains. For me, copper is the only way to go for potable water and PVC or ABS for drains. I wouldn't use CPVC for anything unless I had minerals in the water that would attack copper.

 

[Gary Slusser]

The reason I went with Galv was my Aunt stores lawn tools in this room and I thought the galv would be better in case
a shovel might hit it.

If it were mine, I'd use sch 40 PVC, and break anyone's arm if they hit my plumbing but...You have to hit sch 40 very hard to break it.

The Well guy said to do that too, there is a coupling on the back of the tank but not the front so I will have to cut the copper to get the tank out and will install a coupler on the front.

Sorry, with the height of the inlet and outlet on that tank, you can't drain teh bottom off; without taking the tank out and dumping it and I doubt you can get everything out of it doing that. I'd put a new precharged bladder tank with a tank tee set up in for her. It will take up less space and you can get rid of most of the galvanized.

BTW, pumps that pump water with sand in it don't lest 20+ years.