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Let's see.. Last summer, PE that runs from my well pressure tank to the house inlet developed a pinhole leak.. I noticed a wet spot on the foundation, had to crawl under.. Cut the bad section out, put a coupler in.. Then found it had a pinhole leak at the other end.. Put a coupler in there.. Turned the water back on.. Then a pinhole leak developed in the middle.. Screw it.. Pulled the whole length out, put in replacement.
In November, bottom fell out of the hot water heater.. Replaced it.. Plus $1000 for repair of the flooring that it damaged.
Noticed some water pressure problems the last few days.. Well, the filter hasn't been replaced in far too long.. Stuck my head under the house today.. Leaking at the filter.. Learned my lesson there, since the position it was in made it difficult to tell exactly where the leak was.. I just pulled the whole filter and put a new one in..
Get out, turn the water on.. Pressure is the best I can remember.. But, it's fluctuating.. Turn on the outside spigot near the pressure tank.. Notice that the switch is cycling about every 5 seconds.. Check the schrader valve on top of the tank.. Water comes spewing out.. Sure sign of a ruptured bladder in the pressure tank.So.. Picked up a new pressure tank.. Too late in the day to start on the replacement of that.. So, that'll be a project for next weekend, most likely. Of course, it's not just a pressure tank.. Replace the pressure switch, the gauge, etc, etc..
Now I'm getting nervous about the well pump itself, water lines running under my floors, even the water pump on my vehicle. Or.. Perhaps the water is going to be sneaky and my roof will fail or something.. I've just determined that water is out to get me.
13 is apparently my unlucky number, as the house is 13 years old this year.
Let's see.. Last summer, PE that runs from my well pressure tank to the house inlet developed a pinhole leak.. I noticed a wet spot on the foundation, had to crawl under.. Cut the bad section out, put a coupler in.. Then found it had a pinhole leak at the other end.. Put a coupler in there.. Turned the water back on.. Then a pinhole leak developed in the middle.. Screw it.. Pulled the whole length out, put in replacement.
In November, bottom fell out of the hot water heater.. Replaced it.. Plus $1000 for repair of the flooring that it damaged.
Noticed some water pressure problems the last few days.. Well, the filter hasn't been replaced in far too long.. Stuck my head under the house today.. Leaking at the filter.. Learned my lesson there, since the position it was in made it difficult to tell exactly where the leak was.. I just pulled the whole filter and put a new one in..
Get out, turn the water on.. Pressure is the best I can remember.. But, it's fluctuating.. Turn on the outside spigot near the pressure tank.. Notice that the switch is cycling about every 5 seconds.. Check the schrader valve on top of the tank.. Water comes spewing out.. Sure sign of a ruptured bladder in the pressure tank.So.. Picked up a new pressure tank.. Too late in the day to start on the replacement of that.. So, that'll be a project for next weekend, most likely. Of course, it's not just a pressure tank.. Replace the pressure switch, the gauge, etc, etc..
Now I'm getting nervous about the well pump itself, water lines running under my floors, even the water pump on my vehicle. Or.. Perhaps the water is going to be sneaky and my roof will fail or something.. I've just determined that water is out to get me.
13 is apparently my unlucky number, as the house is 13 years old this year.
We replaced a well pump twice I believe in the 26 years we had a well. I hate this sort of headache. I wish you well.
Don't wait to long..........a bad tank will kill a water pump in a hurry.
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Also, the new hot water heaters...........some will make your hot water stink..........just remove the anode.
The good news there is that I got all the parts yesterday and got the pressure tank "assembled" ready to go in.. So, all I'll have to do is go under the house, turn off the supply, drain the old tank, disconnect 2 PE lines coming in and going out, disconnect power to the pressure switch.. Place the new one, reconnect water, reconnect power to the switch.. Should be good... So long as I didn't put the parts together and make it so it won't fit in the door under the house..
The bad news is.. I work until 7pm, and am 30 mins from home.. So, it'll be dark when I try to do this tonight. I can go to the gym to take a shower if need be.. And, i'm in the country, so I can pee outside.. Just have to remember to poop before disconnecting the water.
My well pump seems to be on top, which.. I thought was odd. I'm not fully 'up' on wells, but I thought those pumps were usually down the well. While replacing a $200-$300 motor wouldn't be fun.. It's at least something I could do if I had to from the looks of it.
HWH has been in 4 months.. It's working fine. I actually went with a smaller unit on that.. 40 gal to 30 gal, since it's just me in the house. I use low-flow everything, and the only time I use hot water is in the shower.. So.. I probably use 10gal a day of hot water at most.
Anyone familiar with working with "PE" tubing? If so, what is the trick to installing that? 1 inch tubing, you cannot get it onto 1 inch connectors. Is the trick that you're supposed to heat it up first or something?
Are you talking about PEX flexible water lines? I have used PEX 3/4" works great the stuff is tough.
No.. I learned all about PEX when the hot water heater went out.(I do like the colors available and color coded blue for cold water and red for hot water there). I had never worked with it before, and OF COURSE they used all the 'pinch' connectors for it, which was a pain to get off.. Wound up using a dremel to cut them.
There were 2 pieces of it.. a 1" piece running from my well to the filter, then 3/4" running from the pressure tank into the house.
Well, 3 pieces, I guess.. The third piece was a 1" piece coming off the filter into the pressure tank. It was a small piece.. I wound up removing it, because I was going to break the PVC for the filter trying to get the fitting on it.
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