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bobbie (NY)
About a year ago I called a plumber to have him replace my deep well check valve,
as I was losing tank pressure and the pump was kicking in more than it should. He
had to take out about 75 feet of piping to get to it. Just in case, I also had him
replace my small, old tank. That tank probably held about 5 gallons of water. My
new one is twice that size. Anyways, everything was fixed and I slept better, until
about about a month ago.
My pump will kick in once every three hours without any water usage. So I figured
about 3 gallons per hour were going back down the well. It's no real biggie, but it
gets to be stressful hearing that pump go on when you are trying to get some sleep. So after about a month of that built-up stress, I decided to unplug the pump at night. I never imagined that I would lose every ounce of water from the tank and the pump itself.
When I woke up and plugged the pump back-in, it would go on without pumping up any water. I lost all the prime. It took me about an hour to get it primed. I used 3-4 gallons of water. The pressure just would not go above certain psi because of air in the pipes. In order to bleed the air out, water comes out too. So the basement got wet! I thought at least I got it back to where it was the night before: working pump, working water tank, with water draining back into the well.
Miracle happened after I got the pump running again. For some reason, I am no longer losing water pressure. If the tank reads 35 psi (or whatever psi), it stays that way. I have no idea what I did, but whatever I did solved the problem of water flowing back into the well. I must have un-irritated or undone something bad without even realizing it.
It really did solve my problem. So, if your system is losing pressure from water going back into the well or something of that nature, why don't you do what I did. I have no idea if that will work for you. All I know is that it worked for me!
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m & m (MD)
It was your lucky day, nothing more. Your foot valve for whatever reason was not seating properly and allowing water to escape back to the well. Whatever was lodged, washed out and now it is back to seating properly. Good deal!!
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Author:
WC (VA)
If your problem returns:
You may consider installing another high quality bronze inline spring check valve in your pump discharge line -- above ground near to but before your pressure tank
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