GreggT
New Member
I live in an old house with an old dug, stone-lined well that looks to be maybe 15' deep. This well was setup with a FloTec 4322 when we bought the place.
I'm having trouble with the pump slowly losing pressure - the pump kicks on every ~30 minutes, and I've ruled out a house leak.
The pump sits in my basement, maybe 5' above the water level in the well, which is ~40 feet away inside my garage, in a manhole cover (setup after we purchased the property and built the garage). The jet pump is setup with a twin pipe deep well configuration at the pump side. I went to look at the foot valve/injector assuming the check valve was the likely culprit, and got a surprise. There is a single pipe, looks like it might be 3/4" copper, coming into the well through the stones a couple of feet below the water line, which is maybe 4' from the garage floor. The pipe goes down to the bottom of the well, where I'm guessing there is a strainer, but can't really tell. Presumably this line is from before the jet pump was installed.
How is this possible? Do you suppose they installed the injector assembly underground right outside the well? The well is close enough to the edge of the building that I could potentially dig to it, but it would be below the water line. At this point it seems like repairing whatever is going on at the well is unlikely.
Before I go to a plan B like installing a submersible in the well and a new line via the garage, I'm wondering if given the shallowness of the well, I can reconfigure the 4322 to a shallow setup and put a check valve in the basement right before the pump.
All thoughts much appreciated.
- Gregg
I'm having trouble with the pump slowly losing pressure - the pump kicks on every ~30 minutes, and I've ruled out a house leak.
The pump sits in my basement, maybe 5' above the water level in the well, which is ~40 feet away inside my garage, in a manhole cover (setup after we purchased the property and built the garage). The jet pump is setup with a twin pipe deep well configuration at the pump side. I went to look at the foot valve/injector assuming the check valve was the likely culprit, and got a surprise. There is a single pipe, looks like it might be 3/4" copper, coming into the well through the stones a couple of feet below the water line, which is maybe 4' from the garage floor. The pipe goes down to the bottom of the well, where I'm guessing there is a strainer, but can't really tell. Presumably this line is from before the jet pump was installed.
How is this possible? Do you suppose they installed the injector assembly underground right outside the well? The well is close enough to the edge of the building that I could potentially dig to it, but it would be below the water line. At this point it seems like repairing whatever is going on at the well is unlikely.
Before I go to a plan B like installing a submersible in the well and a new line via the garage, I'm wondering if given the shallowness of the well, I can reconfigure the 4322 to a shallow setup and put a check valve in the basement right before the pump.
All thoughts much appreciated.
- Gregg