Recent content by Patty Bates

Thanks Terry for answering so quickly. Can you explain what is meant by "cover"? Is that the total depth of the pipe in the ground? Because at some point the pipe has to come out (in the lake) to pull water through the foot valve.

Hello, At my cottage I have a 1-1/4" black poly pipe for lake water intake. It leaves the cottage, runs 4 feet underground and enters the lake. Where the pipe enters the water at the shore, it's buried under sand, but definitely less than 4 feet deep (probably 1 to 2 feet deep). As the lake is...

At my cottage I have a 100 foot, 1-1/4" black poly pipe for lake water intake. To avoid potential freezing this winter, I'm going to install an in-pipe heating system. The poly pipe goes through the concrete block foundation and immediately hooks up to a plastic tee. It then goes up and away...

I also provided a short movie clip which shows the pump running. See the pressure gauge and how it quickly drops down as the pump shuts off. The pressure then stays at that level.

Thank you Reach4, I will try the method you described with shaving cream to see if anything is being sucked into the system. I will also try to dump water from an outside hose for an hour to see if there is any air trapped that might be clogged in the system. I did not change the plumbing...

Hi everyone! Today we had a trench dug from the cottage to the lake and a new ipex 1-1/4" pipe was hooked up to our pump. A new foot valve was installed on the other end of the ipex pipe and placed into the lake about 4 feet below the water line. After priming the system, water was restored to...

Thanks for your suggestions. I will keep you posted on how this goes!

Thanks Reach4! Yes I did replace the foot valve but I was still losing prime. I then took a compressor and blew air into the line, from the cottage towards the lake, and did not see any bubbles appear in the lake which tells me the air is leaving somewhere in the line, possibly a crack.

Hello everyone, I have a 4-season cottage in the Ottawa area and my water supply is lake water. The lake is about 60 feet away. I was losing prime and pressure in my system and it looks like the water pipe outside has failed. I will be replacing it completely. I was just curious about the...