Hi all,
I'm still at a loss even after reading almost every post on this site. We moved into an old house (built about 1900) about 1 month ago. Our water source is a windmill which pumps to a cistern and is then pulled to the house by a Jet pump into a holding tank(both brand new). When we moved in we noticed that there was some sputtering occurring when we ran the water. when we runt the windmill we can hear the water pumping into the cistern so we know the well is good
Now that we replaced the pump and holding tank in the basement we don't have any water. We have been told that there is a hole in the pipe between the cistern and the house. I don't see how air can be pulled from tight packed clay soil surrounding this pipe. Every once in awhile we can get some water to pump(with a lot of sputtering and spitting) if we turn on the pump and shut off the valves to the house. It will build up pressure, the pump turns off as it should and all is okay until we open the valve again. After multiple attempts we can get some water to run for about one day. After that it's hit or miss.
I don't know what else to say except i would love to be able to do my dishes and we dont want to have to dig up the entire line just to find out it's something else. PLEASE HELP!!! thank you for any ideas!
I'm still at a loss even after reading almost every post on this site. We moved into an old house (built about 1900) about 1 month ago. Our water source is a windmill which pumps to a cistern and is then pulled to the house by a Jet pump into a holding tank(both brand new). When we moved in we noticed that there was some sputtering occurring when we ran the water. when we runt the windmill we can hear the water pumping into the cistern so we know the well is good
Now that we replaced the pump and holding tank in the basement we don't have any water. We have been told that there is a hole in the pipe between the cistern and the house. I don't see how air can be pulled from tight packed clay soil surrounding this pipe. Every once in awhile we can get some water to pump(with a lot of sputtering and spitting) if we turn on the pump and shut off the valves to the house. It will build up pressure, the pump turns off as it should and all is okay until we open the valve again. After multiple attempts we can get some water to run for about one day. After that it's hit or miss.
I don't know what else to say except i would love to be able to do my dishes and we dont want to have to dig up the entire line just to find out it's something else. PLEASE HELP!!! thank you for any ideas!