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Afternoon,
I've spent most of the afternoon looking at posts trying to get some answers, and I have really learned a lot. Lately we've been having problems with our well. It's about 90 feet in depth (I'm still trying to find out exactly) and is located in a pit about 8 - 10 feet below grade. It's about 180 feet to the house, and the pressure switch, tank & relief valve are in the basement. The control box is in the well pit.
Last week the pressure would drop to zero. Not sure why (it's a 30 -50 psi switch) but it would either build pressure on it's own or after flipping the breaker on and off. Then just the other day the circuit breaker kept tripping, about three times in ten minutes and then stayed put. I was thinking maybe there was a short in the wire down near the well. When I purchased the home, the wires were spliced down by the well, wrapped in tape and covered by a rock. I fixed that but thought maybe water got in and caused some problems.
So I pulled the cover off the well, and to my surprise there was maybe a foot of standing water in the well pit. I pumped that out and everything worked. I thought maybe there was a leak to casue the water or prhaps just seepage as we have had some rain lately, lots of snow melt and maybe the ground was saturated. So I've been pumping out the water daily, maybe twice a day. I had it pumped out and had my wife and kids flush all the toilets in the house and turn on the faucets, hoping to see evidence of a leak when the pump kicked in. I didn't see any water leaking.
Then today I get a call saying no wtare pressure, the breaker isn't tripped and what do I do? My wife turned off the breaker, reset it and still nothing. She went to a friend's house and came back a couple hours later and there was water.
Any thoughts/sugggestions? I plan to pick up a new pressure switch and control box on the way and see if I can figure out if either of them is the culprit. I dread the idea of pulling the pump, but I'll probably pay someone to do that if it comes down to that.
We've lived here five years now and I've replaced the pressure tank and the wtare filter system. The previous owner tells me to just have the pump rebuilt (if it comes to that) but if it gets pulled it'll get replaced probably. No idea of the manuifacturer of the pump, the control box is a Franklin.
Thanks for any advice.
Chris
I've spent most of the afternoon looking at posts trying to get some answers, and I have really learned a lot. Lately we've been having problems with our well. It's about 90 feet in depth (I'm still trying to find out exactly) and is located in a pit about 8 - 10 feet below grade. It's about 180 feet to the house, and the pressure switch, tank & relief valve are in the basement. The control box is in the well pit.
Last week the pressure would drop to zero. Not sure why (it's a 30 -50 psi switch) but it would either build pressure on it's own or after flipping the breaker on and off. Then just the other day the circuit breaker kept tripping, about three times in ten minutes and then stayed put. I was thinking maybe there was a short in the wire down near the well. When I purchased the home, the wires were spliced down by the well, wrapped in tape and covered by a rock. I fixed that but thought maybe water got in and caused some problems.
So I pulled the cover off the well, and to my surprise there was maybe a foot of standing water in the well pit. I pumped that out and everything worked. I thought maybe there was a leak to casue the water or prhaps just seepage as we have had some rain lately, lots of snow melt and maybe the ground was saturated. So I've been pumping out the water daily, maybe twice a day. I had it pumped out and had my wife and kids flush all the toilets in the house and turn on the faucets, hoping to see evidence of a leak when the pump kicked in. I didn't see any water leaking.
Then today I get a call saying no wtare pressure, the breaker isn't tripped and what do I do? My wife turned off the breaker, reset it and still nothing. She went to a friend's house and came back a couple hours later and there was water.
Any thoughts/sugggestions? I plan to pick up a new pressure switch and control box on the way and see if I can figure out if either of them is the culprit. I dread the idea of pulling the pump, but I'll probably pay someone to do that if it comes down to that.
We've lived here five years now and I've replaced the pressure tank and the wtare filter system. The previous owner tells me to just have the pump rebuilt (if it comes to that) but if it gets pulled it'll get replaced probably. No idea of the manuifacturer of the pump, the control box is a Franklin.
Thanks for any advice.
Chris