Recent content by Joe Vicini

Found the problem. Traced the poly well pipe out side and found I had put a very small nick in the pipe when I had installed some temporary fencing over the winter. The well pipe came out of the house 10' and then went down. Problem was the pipe turned when it went out of the house and headed...

Spoke to a neighbor who has a very similar set up and he said that he has a shallow well and that he does not have a foot valve either. As I mentioned, the pump worked fine last year with the same exact set up. Broke down and called a couple well companies for a service call. I will let you...

I have seen a couple threads on well pumps loosing prime and have tried everything mentioned but still having issues Well pump for irrigation system ran fine last year. Currently once it is primed it runs great and holds pressure for days when off. However when I go to restart even a couple...