Larry C Moe
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I know almost nothing about forums and have about the same knowledge on pressure tanks. It's been almost 2 weeks with limited water for my family of 3. I need advice on how to move forward on this. I will try to make this brief as possible. About 2 weeks ago we got a deep freeze 11 below zero.
The next morning the water pump was down. I took a look at it and didn't see that the switch was bad, I have replaced them in the past but I was tried and I guess I didn't see one side of the contacts was flipped out a wack. Called a local guy and got charged $220 for a darn switch replacement. (^*%&^(*(&&^&. Not really complaining, the guy got here fast was very friendly.
Anyway, our well, is about 55 feet from the house the pump and tank are underground in an (lack of better term) old bucket lift well, that I guess was filled with rock to make a floor than they made a concrete cap with an access entry. From the access hole to the pump is about 8 feet down.
When down inside the area, there are to rounded sections, one section is about 3 feet in diameter and the adjoining round section is about 4 feet in diameter. The Sta-Rite Jet pump sits halfway between the two sections with the suction pipe right in the middle of the smaller section and the old Sears vertical 86-gallon pressure tank sits in the lager section kind of haphazardly on a few cinder blocks. Original house is well over 100 years old 2nd story was added at some point and another first-floor addition was adder later. The old Sears pressure tank has an water inlet about 1 foot up from the bottom of the tank and the outlet is on the other side of the tank about 2 inches from the bottom of the tank. There is no tee fitting. I have tried to find similar tanks but have not found anything like it as far as I can tell. I have seen a few that have the larger what look to be inlets and outlets, but I don't know if that is what they actually are. I'm under a lot of stress here and I'm sorry if I'm giving to much information. The old Sears tank is about 19" wide by 61" high. I can't find any tanks that are 19" wide, it's very tight down there and I'm worried a larger diameter tank won't work and the wider it is the harder it will be to get it down in there. If I were to buy a tee-fitting style tank, I'm not sure I would be able to plumb it out it's just tough to move in there, and I'm not a (6'2" 300lbs) small guy. So, can anyone tell me about the tank I have and where I can get one? Also, I was thinking about going with the CSV / PK1A but how do I determine if our plumbing can handle it? It's also kind of worries me that the PK1A only has a 12-month warrantee.
Any help here will be extremely appreciated.
The next morning the water pump was down. I took a look at it and didn't see that the switch was bad, I have replaced them in the past but I was tried and I guess I didn't see one side of the contacts was flipped out a wack. Called a local guy and got charged $220 for a darn switch replacement. (^*%&^(*(&&^&. Not really complaining, the guy got here fast was very friendly.
Anyway, our well, is about 55 feet from the house the pump and tank are underground in an (lack of better term) old bucket lift well, that I guess was filled with rock to make a floor than they made a concrete cap with an access entry. From the access hole to the pump is about 8 feet down.
When down inside the area, there are to rounded sections, one section is about 3 feet in diameter and the adjoining round section is about 4 feet in diameter. The Sta-Rite Jet pump sits halfway between the two sections with the suction pipe right in the middle of the smaller section and the old Sears vertical 86-gallon pressure tank sits in the lager section kind of haphazardly on a few cinder blocks. Original house is well over 100 years old 2nd story was added at some point and another first-floor addition was adder later. The old Sears pressure tank has an water inlet about 1 foot up from the bottom of the tank and the outlet is on the other side of the tank about 2 inches from the bottom of the tank. There is no tee fitting. I have tried to find similar tanks but have not found anything like it as far as I can tell. I have seen a few that have the larger what look to be inlets and outlets, but I don't know if that is what they actually are. I'm under a lot of stress here and I'm sorry if I'm giving to much information. The old Sears tank is about 19" wide by 61" high. I can't find any tanks that are 19" wide, it's very tight down there and I'm worried a larger diameter tank won't work and the wider it is the harder it will be to get it down in there. If I were to buy a tee-fitting style tank, I'm not sure I would be able to plumb it out it's just tough to move in there, and I'm not a (6'2" 300lbs) small guy. So, can anyone tell me about the tank I have and where I can get one? Also, I was thinking about going with the CSV / PK1A but how do I determine if our plumbing can handle it? It's also kind of worries me that the PK1A only has a 12-month warrantee.
Any help here will be extremely appreciated.
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