Wellquestion
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Submersible well pump (skinny type about 2'0" long on long piece of pipe...
A little hard to describe this so bear with me.
Pressure switch stuck (welded) closed and if I'm remembering correctly pump cut out on overload of some sort. Manually closed contacts and pump started so replaced contractor (pressure switch) and gauge that had sprung.
When I replaced, decided to change switch to a 40-60 psi switch (rather than the 30-50 original) since last time I replaced pump, got a higher capacity pump.
Set bladder at the time
Fired everything up and appeared to be working properly.
But, when I get a shower, pressure starts out good but drops off to no water pressure (water quits coming out of shower head.) and then builds back up quickly to full pressure.
If I watch the gauge as the pump goes down to cut on and off pressure, everything appears to be working properly (gauge cuts on at 40 and cuts off at 60. Only caveat to this is once pump cuts off, water pressure continues to rise somewhat beyond the cutoff point (this is much more drastic when first cut pump on after draining everything.... air in lines I suppose.
So after experiencing these symptoms thought may I messed up by having pump operate at higher pressure.... leaks under house for instance) so backpedaled and reset this switch to 30-50Psi and reset the tank at 28 psi. Nothing changed.
Thought it might be my water filter so took it out completely.
Crawled under house to take a look for leaks because if I turn pump off for extended period it will fall to zero on the gauge. Looked and there doesn't appear to be any drastic leaks, but I could have missed something because insulation is falling down all over the place in the crawlspace.
Thought I'd ask here before I ripped out all the insulation to see what these symptoms describe.
Well pump was replaced 3 or 4 years ago.
Could this be symptomatic of a bad foot/check valve?
Dumb question but if water pressure was zero on either side of the gauge (meaning pump side or house side) the gauge would read zero correct? Meaning there is no way for the water pressure at the pump and at the house to read drastically different is there?
What do you suspect?
A little hard to describe this so bear with me.
Pressure switch stuck (welded) closed and if I'm remembering correctly pump cut out on overload of some sort. Manually closed contacts and pump started so replaced contractor (pressure switch) and gauge that had sprung.
When I replaced, decided to change switch to a 40-60 psi switch (rather than the 30-50 original) since last time I replaced pump, got a higher capacity pump.
Set bladder at the time
Fired everything up and appeared to be working properly.
But, when I get a shower, pressure starts out good but drops off to no water pressure (water quits coming out of shower head.) and then builds back up quickly to full pressure.
If I watch the gauge as the pump goes down to cut on and off pressure, everything appears to be working properly (gauge cuts on at 40 and cuts off at 60. Only caveat to this is once pump cuts off, water pressure continues to rise somewhat beyond the cutoff point (this is much more drastic when first cut pump on after draining everything.... air in lines I suppose.
So after experiencing these symptoms thought may I messed up by having pump operate at higher pressure.... leaks under house for instance) so backpedaled and reset this switch to 30-50Psi and reset the tank at 28 psi. Nothing changed.
Thought it might be my water filter so took it out completely.
Crawled under house to take a look for leaks because if I turn pump off for extended period it will fall to zero on the gauge. Looked and there doesn't appear to be any drastic leaks, but I could have missed something because insulation is falling down all over the place in the crawlspace.
Thought I'd ask here before I ripped out all the insulation to see what these symptoms describe.
Well pump was replaced 3 or 4 years ago.
Could this be symptomatic of a bad foot/check valve?
Dumb question but if water pressure was zero on either side of the gauge (meaning pump side or house side) the gauge would read zero correct? Meaning there is no way for the water pressure at the pump and at the house to read drastically different is there?
What do you suspect?