Let me start from the beginning, I lost water in the house a few days ago. I went outside to find the pump running continuously, and dry. I stopped the pump, and tapped on the suction line and it was empty. I filled the pump to try and re-prime the system. Once I finally was able to build psi I bleed the system of air, which took a very long time. At this point the pump would not shut off and I was able to see my leaks a good sized one right at the pvc coupler in the suction line at the pump and a small one at the t-fitting going to the tank. At this point I put a list together of what I needed to fix problems. I replaced all damaged parts and went to priming system, I got it running and all was good until the next day wife calls me and said we had no water again. First thing I thought was that something I did must had failed. I got home to find that all my work was holding good.
Now is when things get good, I now figured my foot valve had failed. I opened the plug at the top of pump and closed line going to the house filled suction line a waited, it would always drop slowly but it dropped none the less (FOOT VALVE). So at this point it was time to find my well which i had no idea were it could be' I finally found it about 85-90ft from the pump in the front yard. So i thought great pull pipe replace foot valve all is well again. After fighting with well seal I got it lose, now my thinking was that it should only be around 20ft or so being its a single line jet pump, Nope I pulled around 30ft of cheap brittle pvc from well only to find the foot valve to be gone from bottom of pipe that was broken off who knows maybe right at the valve or not it was a 20ft section of pvc with coupler at 20ft then another 12ft to broken piece =32ft. So at this point I'm at a loss. So this being the first time I opened well on a house built in '69 lets check the depth, the well is 107ft deep with water at 25ft and my very small 3" case about 40ft to its end.
Now I guess what I'm trying to ask is how was my 1hp goulds pump pulling water with such great psi from that distance, luck? I also would like to know what depth should I attempt to place foot valve this time. I checked to see if their was any obstruction in pipe down to the bottom I couldn't feel my missing foot valve and unknown amount of pvc.
Should I just place the foot valve at 30ft remember this is a single 1.25" suction line with a long 85ft run to the pump. Water depth is at 25ft, I'm in Tampa, Fl. so who knows how low it goes during the drought season which we are kind of still in even though we've had alot of rain the past few weeks.
Why was it pulling water so good, could it be the small 3" case it was in. Neighbor across the street is dropped to only 17ft and has never had a problem, but he has water at 9ft.
Am I missing something or was there some kind of well drillers secret going on?
Now is when things get good, I now figured my foot valve had failed. I opened the plug at the top of pump and closed line going to the house filled suction line a waited, it would always drop slowly but it dropped none the less (FOOT VALVE). So at this point it was time to find my well which i had no idea were it could be' I finally found it about 85-90ft from the pump in the front yard. So i thought great pull pipe replace foot valve all is well again. After fighting with well seal I got it lose, now my thinking was that it should only be around 20ft or so being its a single line jet pump, Nope I pulled around 30ft of cheap brittle pvc from well only to find the foot valve to be gone from bottom of pipe that was broken off who knows maybe right at the valve or not it was a 20ft section of pvc with coupler at 20ft then another 12ft to broken piece =32ft. So at this point I'm at a loss. So this being the first time I opened well on a house built in '69 lets check the depth, the well is 107ft deep with water at 25ft and my very small 3" case about 40ft to its end.
Now I guess what I'm trying to ask is how was my 1hp goulds pump pulling water with such great psi from that distance, luck? I also would like to know what depth should I attempt to place foot valve this time. I checked to see if their was any obstruction in pipe down to the bottom I couldn't feel my missing foot valve and unknown amount of pvc.
Should I just place the foot valve at 30ft remember this is a single 1.25" suction line with a long 85ft run to the pump. Water depth is at 25ft, I'm in Tampa, Fl. so who knows how low it goes during the drought season which we are kind of still in even though we've had alot of rain the past few weeks.
Why was it pulling water so good, could it be the small 3" case it was in. Neighbor across the street is dropped to only 17ft and has never had a problem, but he has water at 9ft.
Am I missing something or was there some kind of well drillers secret going on?
