Hi,
I am hoping for some advice. A couple days ago we had low pressure at our faucets and showerhead. We called a well specialist and they found a cracked well pipe among other things. Not sure what details will be necessary for the needed advice but will first add that we ended up with a new well pump, new piping down to the pump and a new well expansion tank and pressure switch/valves.
We were then told to open up one of our outdoor sillcocks to help flush out the chlorine and the sediment that got stirred up. I opened up the sillcock a little and it was flowing ok. I then tried to finish opening it up (quarter-turn) and was met with a very loud BANG and the water flow cut in half and stayed there. The tech guy didn't seem concerned and said that it was probably plugged a bit. If I am very careful to open the sillcock, I can get pretty good pressure out of it but just a little more leads to the loud banging noise (just once) and the water flow cuts down to something you might see in the bathroom faucet.
I have NOT tried pulling out the guts for the sillcock because I am not sure what I would be looking for. We have two identical sillcocks and they are both doing the same thing. Both are an older style Mueller Quartermaster frost free with the anti-syphon on the top and were installed in 2008 (I am basing ID on a website that helped identify these as one of their discontinued models with the solid plastic handles).
I am hoping that someone maybe has some advice as to why these two sillcocks are suddenly doing this. Is it the likely pressure increase that we got from having the fixes? The tech said that the pressure to the house is set at 65. I do not know what we had before. Is this fixable or even worth messing with? Should I just replace the sillcocks with something newer (and would that even help)?
Thanks for any help provided,
JLAR-P
I am hoping for some advice. A couple days ago we had low pressure at our faucets and showerhead. We called a well specialist and they found a cracked well pipe among other things. Not sure what details will be necessary for the needed advice but will first add that we ended up with a new well pump, new piping down to the pump and a new well expansion tank and pressure switch/valves.
We were then told to open up one of our outdoor sillcocks to help flush out the chlorine and the sediment that got stirred up. I opened up the sillcock a little and it was flowing ok. I then tried to finish opening it up (quarter-turn) and was met with a very loud BANG and the water flow cut in half and stayed there. The tech guy didn't seem concerned and said that it was probably plugged a bit. If I am very careful to open the sillcock, I can get pretty good pressure out of it but just a little more leads to the loud banging noise (just once) and the water flow cuts down to something you might see in the bathroom faucet.
I have NOT tried pulling out the guts for the sillcock because I am not sure what I would be looking for. We have two identical sillcocks and they are both doing the same thing. Both are an older style Mueller Quartermaster frost free with the anti-syphon on the top and were installed in 2008 (I am basing ID on a website that helped identify these as one of their discontinued models with the solid plastic handles).
I am hoping that someone maybe has some advice as to why these two sillcocks are suddenly doing this. Is it the likely pressure increase that we got from having the fixes? The tech said that the pressure to the house is set at 65. I do not know what we had before. Is this fixable or even worth messing with? Should I just replace the sillcocks with something newer (and would that even help)?
Thanks for any help provided,
JLAR-P