Hi all, glad I found your forum and hope I can get some help.
I come from an auto mechanics background, now retired, and fix plenty of things I didn't know anything about before I became a homeowner. Some thing I keep my hands off is my well system including the tank, iron filter, and water softener.
I recently had a "professional" redo my though three items above, including a RO under sink system, and he replaced the galvanized tank with a bladder tank. I must say everything looked great when he was done but right away I noticed tiny air bubbles coming out of the RO system and the normal faucets. The bubbles clear up within seconds but I never had them before. Calling him back he said it would clear up soon. Follow up calls went unanswered so he obviously wanted nothing more to do with me and my problem.
Trying to make a long story short, after I did my research, I found my well pump system most likely has air bleed towards the top of the vertical run from the pump. It looks like the pipe leading from the well pipe to inside the house is only a few feet below ground level and water bleeds out of this line to prevent freezing. The vertical run in the basement sits above the top of the pressure tank and is approximately 5 feet from the outside basement wall to the pump vertical pipe. I do know the old tank would build up air in the tank because it didn't have a air control valve installed and every so often I would have to let air escape through the schrader valve near the top of the tank where the pressure gauge was.
I guess my questions are am I making the proper assumption of the system I got?
Going back to a galvanized or epoxy tank would be a proper solution?
Which one is better between the two?
Should there be a check valve in the line before the pressure switch? There isn't one there now nor from what I remember before with the galvanize tank. I don't lose pressure in the system with all faucets closed.
Can a CSV be incorporated with a hydro-pneumatic tank?
Is there someone in north eastern Illinois that you can recommend to straighten out my problems? The few places got in touch with never got back to me. Is replacing a pressure tank not a big enough job to deal with?
Sorry for the long post.
Ed
I come from an auto mechanics background, now retired, and fix plenty of things I didn't know anything about before I became a homeowner. Some thing I keep my hands off is my well system including the tank, iron filter, and water softener.
I recently had a "professional" redo my though three items above, including a RO under sink system, and he replaced the galvanized tank with a bladder tank. I must say everything looked great when he was done but right away I noticed tiny air bubbles coming out of the RO system and the normal faucets. The bubbles clear up within seconds but I never had them before. Calling him back he said it would clear up soon. Follow up calls went unanswered so he obviously wanted nothing more to do with me and my problem.
Trying to make a long story short, after I did my research, I found my well pump system most likely has air bleed towards the top of the vertical run from the pump. It looks like the pipe leading from the well pipe to inside the house is only a few feet below ground level and water bleeds out of this line to prevent freezing. The vertical run in the basement sits above the top of the pressure tank and is approximately 5 feet from the outside basement wall to the pump vertical pipe. I do know the old tank would build up air in the tank because it didn't have a air control valve installed and every so often I would have to let air escape through the schrader valve near the top of the tank where the pressure gauge was.
I guess my questions are am I making the proper assumption of the system I got?
Going back to a galvanized or epoxy tank would be a proper solution?
Which one is better between the two?
Should there be a check valve in the line before the pressure switch? There isn't one there now nor from what I remember before with the galvanize tank. I don't lose pressure in the system with all faucets closed.
Can a CSV be incorporated with a hydro-pneumatic tank?
Is there someone in north eastern Illinois that you can recommend to straighten out my problems? The few places got in touch with never got back to me. Is replacing a pressure tank not a big enough job to deal with?
Sorry for the long post.
Ed