brianjcollins
New Member
I'll try to explain this as best I can. I bought a house about 6 months ago and over that time i've had many plumbing issues, luckily mostly small. During the minor fixes I noticed that my pressure gauage was showing a high pressure around 95lbs, so in a pinch I called a plumber out to adjust it. After he left I took a shower and the water was cutting out really bad down to zero water flow. It turned out to be a bad pressure gauge. I used a guage hooked up to a hose to get me an idea of what pressure I had running and adjusted accordingly. That pretty much got me by. I did end up replacing the bad pressure gauge today and then re-adjusted the pump pressure switch to 40/60 with my well tank pressure are 38. I continued to test it a few times and the upper end of the gauge started growing, I started at 40/60 and now it go to about 40/68. I spun back the one nut to try to turn down the top cut-off, but the nut is so loose the spring isnt under any tension. My only other option is to turn down the large spring to adjust overall pressure and drop it below 40. Could that be a bad switch? The other thing I notice is when I simply run a bathroom faucet, the pressure drops over 2 minutes or so, the pump kicks on, runs the pressure up to it's top cut-off, and repeats aslong as the facuet is opened. Should that happen or should the pump simply maintain pressure and remain on while it's calling for water?
Sorry if that is written poorly.
Brian
Sorry if that is written poorly.
Brian