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I'm stumped and need help. I'm losing water pressure in my home. I have a submersable with a 1 inch line coming in. That line runs into a cycle stop valve which goes to a check valve then through the T into a pressure tank. The pressure switch is set 40/60. What it's doing is as soon as I turn on the water the pressure drops to half at least and if I run two things at a time it trickles out. Some of the things I have done replaced the pressure switch. Drained the tank and refilled the bladder to 38psi. One other thing I did was connect a hose to the pressure tank which I had a lot of pressure coming out and also when I turned on the faucet I didn't loose the pressure at the sink. Thanks in advance.
 

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A check valve there is not normal. I don't quite know how that would result in the symptom you see, however, unless your check valve leaked a lot.

If the pressure went to near zero at those loads, I would think that those loads are before the check valve.

Anyway, I would take the check valve out, or remove its innards so that it passes water all of the time.
 

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A check valve there is not normal. I don't quite know how that would result in the symptom you see, however, unless your check valve leaked a lot.

If the pressure went to near zero at those loads, I would think that those loads are before the check valve.

Anyway, I would take the check valve out, or remove its innards so that it passes water all of the time.

I do have a culligan system with a filter but that has been changed as well. I put the check valve on before the pressure tank thinking the water was draining back into the well. The home is only two years old which all the lines are open in the basement and I have no leaks. It was also losing the pressure before I added the check valve.
 

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If you have a bypass for the filter, open it. What does the pressure gauge on the pressure tank before the water softener say when you are seeing low pressure in the house?
 

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What it's doing is as soon as I turn on the water the pressure drops to half at least and if I run two things at a time it trickles out.
What does the pressure gauge indicate while the faucets trickle?
 

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If you have a bypass for the filter, open it. What does the pressure gauge on the pressure tank before the water softener say when you are seeing low pressure in the house?
If you have a bypass for the filter, open it. What does the pressure gauge on the pressure tank before the water softener say when you are seeing low pressure in the house?
I don't believe it has a bypass but I will check both after work thanks
 

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I will check after work thanks.
The gauge reads 58psi before it gets turned on then slowly drops to 40 and kicks back on up to 60psi. Once I shut everything off again it holds right about 58psi again. I did have a bypass and opened it but made no difference either way at the faucet.
 

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The gauge reads 58psi before it gets turned on then slowly drops to 40 and kicks back on up to 60psi. Once I shut everything off again it holds right about 58psi again. I did have a bypass and opened it but made no difference either way at the faucet.
So you know that the problem is after the pressure tank. You know the problem is before the split off to the water heater input, or else the problem would affect just cold or just hot.

Look for a cartridge filter, or maybe a crushed pipe, or maybe the valve after the pressure tank is partially closed.
 

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So you know that the problem is after the pressure tank. You know the problem is before the split off to the water heater input, or else the problem would affect just cold or just hot.

Look for a cartridge filter, or maybe a crushed pipe, or maybe the valve after the pressure tank is partially closed.

The only cartridge filter I have is for the culligan so I will change that one back out. I did double check all of the valves and crushed lines and haven't found any
 

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When you open a cartridge filter, you would like to have a spare O-ring -- in case you cannot get the old one back in. You want to lightly lube o-rings with silicone grease when putting an o-ring in -- used or new.
 

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If the cartridge isn't dirty, it is probably just too small a sieve size.
I had the chance to pull the filter and it was dirty but also what I found was the top washer on the filter was off center and restricting the volume of water I ran the water without the filter for a couple minutes and the pressure was really good so now I replaced it with the new one. Thank you so much with the help
 

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If the cartridge isn't dirty, it is probably just too small a sieve size.
I had the chance to pull the filter and it was dirty but also what I found was the top washer on the filter was off center and restricting the volume of water I ran the water without the filter for a couple minutes and the pressure was really good so now I replaced it with the new one. Thank you so much with the help
 
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