Phil_the_pitcher
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Firstly, this is an awesome forum - it's a testament to how powerful the web really is. Regardless, I have what I believe is a 10 year old brick home (approx 1600 sq ft) and a submerged well that does not have a bladder. Instead the tank has a gauge about halfway up the side and what appeared to be a schrader valve in a threaded brass housing, which was at one point leaking profusely. Here's the rub - my grandfather (god love him ) was a builder for 30 years and decided to just start messing with it, replaced the valve that was there with a valve stem from an automobile - while it did stop the leak, it became evident to me that this valve should be allowing air to escape, which I have not witnessed thus far since the replacement.
For a time the pipes had air in them in the house, then he fiddled with the adjustment screws until he had it however he thought he wanted it. I conceded only because he's old and his next move was to take a pipe wrench to the whole assembly - a atrocity I wanted to avoid looking down the barrel of a potential weekend with no well. My original idea was to wait and call the well guy on Monday (tomorrow), which I'm certain I will end up doing if I don't hear any miraculous ideas from you guys.
So, now the thing has been cycling on and off all weekend in a manner that will surely lead to my pump's demise - and I inferred from other posts in this forum that this is a symptom of either a leak or being waterlogged. I have shut off the valve at the pump and at the house both to determine if there was a leak going from the pump to the house - it seems to slow the decompression or whatever considerably when i shut either off - so no leak in the line to the house. I've inspected everything I can think of in the house and I see no evidence of a leak anywhere - we have a concrete slab and wood floors, drywall, so I assume something would've buckled by now.
BONUS: In light of my ignorance to proper terminology and in the interest of thoroughness, I've posted some of pictures and even a Quicktime Video of the gauge going on and off on my site here: http://www.eyespike.com/well/default.htm so you can see what I'm up against here with deadly accuracy. The Video is like 7 megs i think so be patient - the long and short is that it cuts on and off quickly, then sinks to half of what it pumped to, then slowly to the cut/in.
Again, any help would be super - if nothing else just some advice to get it to homeostasis until I can get a well guy out here. And thanks again for this fantastic tool online!
Phil
For a time the pipes had air in them in the house, then he fiddled with the adjustment screws until he had it however he thought he wanted it. I conceded only because he's old and his next move was to take a pipe wrench to the whole assembly - a atrocity I wanted to avoid looking down the barrel of a potential weekend with no well. My original idea was to wait and call the well guy on Monday (tomorrow), which I'm certain I will end up doing if I don't hear any miraculous ideas from you guys.
So, now the thing has been cycling on and off all weekend in a manner that will surely lead to my pump's demise - and I inferred from other posts in this forum that this is a symptom of either a leak or being waterlogged. I have shut off the valve at the pump and at the house both to determine if there was a leak going from the pump to the house - it seems to slow the decompression or whatever considerably when i shut either off - so no leak in the line to the house. I've inspected everything I can think of in the house and I see no evidence of a leak anywhere - we have a concrete slab and wood floors, drywall, so I assume something would've buckled by now.
BONUS: In light of my ignorance to proper terminology and in the interest of thoroughness, I've posted some of pictures and even a Quicktime Video of the gauge going on and off on my site here: http://www.eyespike.com/well/default.htm so you can see what I'm up against here with deadly accuracy. The Video is like 7 megs i think so be patient - the long and short is that it cuts on and off quickly, then sinks to half of what it pumped to, then slowly to the cut/in.
Again, any help would be super - if nothing else just some advice to get it to homeostasis until I can get a well guy out here. And thanks again for this fantastic tool online!
Phil