Tboswel1
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Hello All,
I have an older well drilled in about 1960 it's shallow (~70 feet deep). About 1.5 years ago we switched over to the grundfos/aquasol 2 constant pressure system and didn't have any issues with it. Also installed a pelican salt free softener and pH neutralizer (injector pump). Has a small leak in the water line just off of the well in September of last year where one of the male threads after vibrating for so long caused a small pinhole in the line. Got that fixed and everything seemed alright for a bit. Then in October/early November we began having issues with air in the water line. First showing up (loudly) at toilet locations and then faucets begin sputtering shortly after. In my basement furnace room where my water enters the house and the pressure tank is setup, etc... I can hear air in the lines and when water is turned off at faucets can hear the pressure tank gurgling until it stops and is silent lasting abour 10 seconds after the water is shut off. My solution has been to to purge/run most of the faucets/toilets in the house until all sputtering is gone and air in lines isn't audible. I can't run outside spigots due to temperatures and risk of freezing. By purging the lines we go about a week until the same air in the lines pops back up. We have done this for about three months now...I thought the issue might have been the check valve in the neutralizer injector pump, but I bypassed the neutralizer with no solution (same problems). On numerous occasions I have turned the pump off before leaving the house to check for potential pressure loss with no pressure loss upon returning so it doesn't appear to be a leak of any sort. My next step is to call the well company back out and have them check the pump/check valve. Any ideas-this is driving me crazy and now have no clue what could be wrong. People have mentioned a potential well/water table issue, but that wouldn't make sense as my issues clear up when I run all facuets in the house drawing the water table down even further. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tim
I have an older well drilled in about 1960 it's shallow (~70 feet deep). About 1.5 years ago we switched over to the grundfos/aquasol 2 constant pressure system and didn't have any issues with it. Also installed a pelican salt free softener and pH neutralizer (injector pump). Has a small leak in the water line just off of the well in September of last year where one of the male threads after vibrating for so long caused a small pinhole in the line. Got that fixed and everything seemed alright for a bit. Then in October/early November we began having issues with air in the water line. First showing up (loudly) at toilet locations and then faucets begin sputtering shortly after. In my basement furnace room where my water enters the house and the pressure tank is setup, etc... I can hear air in the lines and when water is turned off at faucets can hear the pressure tank gurgling until it stops and is silent lasting abour 10 seconds after the water is shut off. My solution has been to to purge/run most of the faucets/toilets in the house until all sputtering is gone and air in lines isn't audible. I can't run outside spigots due to temperatures and risk of freezing. By purging the lines we go about a week until the same air in the lines pops back up. We have done this for about three months now...I thought the issue might have been the check valve in the neutralizer injector pump, but I bypassed the neutralizer with no solution (same problems). On numerous occasions I have turned the pump off before leaving the house to check for potential pressure loss with no pressure loss upon returning so it doesn't appear to be a leak of any sort. My next step is to call the well company back out and have them check the pump/check valve. Any ideas-this is driving me crazy and now have no clue what could be wrong. People have mentioned a potential well/water table issue, but that wouldn't make sense as my issues clear up when I run all facuets in the house drawing the water table down even further. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tim