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The problem got worse throughout the day. The consensus is that the motor probably had a bad winding where it was getting stuck on restart, would trip out on overload and then eventually restart. Could have lasted another 6 months or 6 hours, no way to know. Turns out the pump was actually...

Thanks for the quick response! There is no control box that I can see. Just the two 8(ish) gage wires from the pressure switch going into a pipe in the top of the casing. Is it possible to not have a capacitor on an old pump?

I have a 505ft well, 6.25" diameter, casing depth 84ft. The placard says it was drilled in 1977, not sure if anything has been done to it since then. I have lived there since 2012. It is 240v, not sure what size the pump is. It runs from a 30amp breaker. About a year ago we had some...

Thanks again TheMostHackEver and WWhitney, looks like I have a decision to make. At least I'm far more informed than I was a few hours ago! Y'all have a great Sunday.

Y'all are awesome. I was just reading about the "only for an island sink" and then was just going to ask why the combination isn't used more often, I guess code changes are the culprit. Other than some code issues, is there anything seriously wrong with the combination waste/vent from a...

Ah, so with a 3" stub, the idea is that water from the sink can never completely close off the entire stub, so it will always vent? Interesting, and very easy.

Thanks for the quick reply! I figured the trap arm having the wrong drop makes using it to tie in a vent a bad option. I was definitely planning on keeping the new P trap above the floor under the sink (plenty of room). Sounds like Option 2 with the kitchen island method should work...

50+ year old house (with crawlspace). Cast iron waste pipes/galvanized vents. I have a kitchen sink that drains slow, laundry room that quit draining completely (upstream of kitchen). I ripped out all of the main 3” waste pipe up to the Y below the sink and it was completely blocked. I will...