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I've installed a freeze proof hydrant next to my well casing. Right now I'm running off solar until we get our house built next year, but something crossed my mind the other day, and that is, how will the hydrant be pressurized if I have a check valve on the incoming side of the pressure tank...

Two days ago in 104* heat, I got my Grundfoss SQflex 6 pump in the well (by myself, with a rig set up that looks like the old Mouse Trap board game). My wife said it was too hot to get out, and there was nobody else available, so I hooked the T-handle and 1" poly pipe onto my Polaris Ranger, set...

It was the thinnest sewer pipe Lowe's had. If it wasn't 30 miles away, I'd go out and check. Seems like it was sdr35, but the wall thicknesses measured about 3/32". Inside was 3 1/16". I was never any good at translating decimals into fractions. I'm an Ironworker, not a machinist. :) Took me a...

Yeah, I''d have liked to at least gotten some pics, but I was busy lowering the hose and checking the water level and my wife was 30' away tending the compressor outlet valve, which she thought was a two-handed, all-out job, so she didn't get any. I don't carry my phone out of the truck, and...

Ready to put the new pump in the new well, and I've got one more question before I stick it in the ground. My pump is a Grundfoss SQFlex 6. With a 2.9" diameter, I've got what looks like about 1/8" clearance around the pump body inside a 3" thin wall pvc pipe. Specs say it has a 3 1/16" ID...

My wife and I finally got the well blown out yesterday. Two days ago, I tried it with my pancake compressor, which was a joke. I was going to hook up my Speedaire 30gal compressor, then realized the dryer plug the previous owner put on it wouldn't match the 50a 240v plug that was needed for my...

Got it from Aqua Sciences.net, a plumbing supply house. Yeah, it's rated for 200# and is NSF Certified - ANSI/AWWA C901. https://www.aquascience.net/industries-submersible-poly-pipe-200psi-1-diameter I'll call them. Per the Menard's ad, those are only 200' rolls and I don't want any splices...

Not if it's fastened to the poly pipe. I contacted Aqua Sciences and asked them if the bolt was for line attachment or a grounding point. They said it's for attaching the rope. Sounds to me like you had to deal with some sloppy installs, valveman. You seem to have a bone to pick with certain...

Line=rope.

I'm using 1" blue poly submersible well pipe for our well pump, and the place i ordered it from has a pretty good deal on the size roll I need (500'). Is pipe that's considered submersible compatible with burying?

Thanks, valveman, but I'm using these things because that's what all the information I've gathered tells me to. I've seen plenty of videos and read a lot of articles where people pulled out torque arrestors ok. I've never heard anybody but you say not to use a line. They wouldn't put hooks on...

So, by flow inducer sleeve, you're talking about a pvc pump screen like this one? https://www.aquascience.net/campbell-manufacturing-pump-screen-for-submersible-pump-protection-for-1-well-pipe If so, I have one of these ready to install when I put in the pump in the next few days. I hope this is...

Another question about the pump install in our new well- when I hook up the poly line between the pump and the head, I'm not seeing much on how to attach them. I've got a Campbell cap that has a bolt inside the cable entry port that I'm wondering about. Is that there to attach a line hook onto...

Thanks for the replies, folks! All of it good information that I can use. Reach4, thanks for the ball tip. Seems they have them at the local Menard's for around $100. For that, I wish I could just stick a kids basketball down there and inflate it, but whatever it takes to get this done. I...

We're building a new house here in southeast Missouri that's located on a pine ridge that's the end of a cascading slope from a nearby mountain. We knew when we bought the property (43 acres) that there were a lot of seeps and spots where surface puddles seemed to last longer than other spots...