utexas2001nc
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Hi! Thank you in advance for any help you can give me. We just bought a house and it seems like everything breaks all the time - I'm hoping this may not be too much of a problem.
We have a 450 ft. well that has been around since the 1980s. I'm not certain about when things (if ever) have been replaced. There is some type of filter or softener(?) that has a backwash system on it (it is very large - about 4 feet tall and a foot in diameter), and then there is a small GE whole house filter (like from Home Depot for about $50) attached to the 3/4" pipe after that. We had great water pressure when we bought the house - and in fact up until last week. I decided that we needed to replace the small filter since our water is quite hard. Everything seemed to go fine, there was a substantial amount of sediment in the bottom of the old filter. Then we decided to do the "backwash" system on the large filter (or softener - how can I tell?) upstream, because I noticed how dirty the water appeared to be that was going into the small filter. We went through the backwash steps several times and the water that was drained was quite dirty. We repeated until the water was clean. We reattached everything, and ever since then the water pressure has been iffy. If one things is running, there is only a tiny trickle out of any other faucet. It seems stronger when you first turn on a faucet, and then it dwindles, occasionally it will improve after a while - however it is never as good as it was before. Whenever I look at the pressure at the pump it reads 65. That seems to be the resting pressure. One other thing, which I think is probably just a coincidence but I will throw it out there anyway - our dishwasher stopped draining and now has to be replaced.
Any ideas on what could cause this? Will it go away on it's own? Could we have inadvertently messed something up with the backwashing? Also, when not in use, the switch to the backwasher is in "service" position. Does that sound normal?
Thanks SO much for any help or ideas!
Melissa Tunks
We have a 450 ft. well that has been around since the 1980s. I'm not certain about when things (if ever) have been replaced. There is some type of filter or softener(?) that has a backwash system on it (it is very large - about 4 feet tall and a foot in diameter), and then there is a small GE whole house filter (like from Home Depot for about $50) attached to the 3/4" pipe after that. We had great water pressure when we bought the house - and in fact up until last week. I decided that we needed to replace the small filter since our water is quite hard. Everything seemed to go fine, there was a substantial amount of sediment in the bottom of the old filter. Then we decided to do the "backwash" system on the large filter (or softener - how can I tell?) upstream, because I noticed how dirty the water appeared to be that was going into the small filter. We went through the backwash steps several times and the water that was drained was quite dirty. We repeated until the water was clean. We reattached everything, and ever since then the water pressure has been iffy. If one things is running, there is only a tiny trickle out of any other faucet. It seems stronger when you first turn on a faucet, and then it dwindles, occasionally it will improve after a while - however it is never as good as it was before. Whenever I look at the pressure at the pump it reads 65. That seems to be the resting pressure. One other thing, which I think is probably just a coincidence but I will throw it out there anyway - our dishwasher stopped draining and now has to be replaced.
Any ideas on what could cause this? Will it go away on it's own? Could we have inadvertently messed something up with the backwashing? Also, when not in use, the switch to the backwasher is in "service" position. Does that sound normal?
Thanks SO much for any help or ideas!
Melissa Tunks