Skeensy
New Member
Hi everyone. Looked all over the place for a diagram with a well setup that includes a sprinkler distribution line as well. This is our bathing and drinking water as well as irrigation. I have the well pump, check valve at the well head down pipe, outside the well , then a 10 foot run to a sprinkler valve box, which is just tee’d off the main line, on to my pressure tank tee, then up to the carbon backwash filter, then the softener, then on to the uv filter , then into the house.
My question is, I don’t know if I have a check valve at the pump. I put the check valve in by the well head house side down pipe because the pressure relief valve set a 75psi was spraying each time the pump would run and get to pressure at the tank. The issue has stopped. I put in the check after the sprinkler tee to start with and then because it was between the pressure tank and the sprinklers it wouldn’t start the sprinklers.
My question is I feel like the sprinklers coming on with no check valve between them and the carbine backwash might be allowing siphoning backwards while the sprinklers run. Would the pressure tank keep the water from back flowing ? Would adding another check valve after the pressure tank before the backwash hurt anything? I’m reading too many check valves are bad. Thank you.
My question is, I don’t know if I have a check valve at the pump. I put the check valve in by the well head house side down pipe because the pressure relief valve set a 75psi was spraying each time the pump would run and get to pressure at the tank. The issue has stopped. I put in the check after the sprinkler tee to start with and then because it was between the pressure tank and the sprinklers it wouldn’t start the sprinklers.
My question is I feel like the sprinklers coming on with no check valve between them and the carbine backwash might be allowing siphoning backwards while the sprinklers run. Would the pressure tank keep the water from back flowing ? Would adding another check valve after the pressure tank before the backwash hurt anything? I’m reading too many check valves are bad. Thank you.