Hi - I am redoing my water system for my two-and-a-half bath home. The supply is an underground set of cistern tanks making up 5000 gallons. The water level is roughly even with the 1/2 horse shallow-well jet pump in the crawl space. It was what the contractor put in to do the job and it works fine. I had the urge to upgrade however. So I bought this stack of stuff to put in: 20 and 5 micron filters, an additional bladder tank, a Pelican charcoal canister and water softener set, and ozination. I am going to a high quality 3/4 horse jet pump and 1 inch plumbing through all this to deal with the restriction I am adding.
I have two questions really: Should filters be up, or down steam from the bladder tanks? And: Where should the pump pressure-switch be tapped in? I imagine the pump pressure would spike as it hits the upstream side of the 5 micron filter if there were no cushion. Putting the fine filter downstream of the bladder tanks would even water pressure wouldn't it? And putting the sensing switch way at the end of all these parts seems to make sense to me. Please let me know what you think. Thanks.
I have two questions really: Should filters be up, or down steam from the bladder tanks? And: Where should the pump pressure-switch be tapped in? I imagine the pump pressure would spike as it hits the upstream side of the 5 micron filter if there were no cushion. Putting the fine filter downstream of the bladder tanks would even water pressure wouldn't it? And putting the sensing switch way at the end of all these parts seems to make sense to me. Please let me know what you think. Thanks.