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geez!
I just now noticed that the first post was in December of 2004.
Well what was the problem??? I know after 15 months you must have fixed it. Was it a Leak in the main feed line at the well, so when the water leveled dropped below the leak, it then sucked air and not water and you had to wait for the water level to recover????
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WW,
I think he fixed his first problem and on 3/27 posted another problem.
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Yes, the first post in this thread was from a long time ago. In that one,,, I had a bad bladder so I replaced the whole thing with a 82 (or 86) gallon new bladder tank. Been working fine ever since and the pump kicks on less frequently with the larger tank (that tank supply's two houses, although one of the houses has only one lady living in it. Thank you for all that help with that problem!
The new problem (I kept it in the same thread to not keep making new ones) Is on my well at my other house in Northern Wisconsin. My wife say's if I dont have a shower running for her when she gets there on Easter, that I WILL be putting her up in a hotel for those 5 days! (And I thought she grew up on a farm>>???) Anyway's I am holding out hope for the chunk idea in the pressure switch. I was thinking that may be the cause. Since I only had 6 hours till I had to leave and drive 312 miles home that day, I decided to pull the whole damm thing out and take it home with me!!  . (Ill be dammed if I will put her up in a hotel just cause there is no water!!!) I will check the gauge and the pipe leading to it tonight.
Do you all think I should just go ahead and replace the tank also? A new replacement tank is only $89 right now on sale? The old tank is 5 years old and it is used infrequently,? ALSO I do have alot of seditment (or rust) in the water when I first get up to the cabin every year Thanks
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1 night in a motel will cover the cost of all new parts. 1 five day vacation with the signifacant other whinning the whole time shoud be worth 2-3 new systems plus a plumber to do the work.
I would not just up and replace the tank. BUT if it is all out it makes sense to replace it. One less problem next year.
With your water quality in the spring I would check the pipes from the well also. Are they steel? How old? It might justify a trip later this summer to install plastic.
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Harvey,,, I love you man!!! . My kind of thinking and I am still >Laughing Out Loud< at your comments about hotel prices.
I am at my other residence atleast (on average) once a month. My father-in-law is fit to be tied by me replacing the 4 year old tank (actually its closer to five than four). Its on sale right now for $under 85 bucks, I thought it was a no brainer? At closer look to the "points" of contacts I see a small amount of buildup where they are suppose to touch each other. Maybe if I was a bit "quicker" I would of checked this while it was still hooked up. Just a few swipes with some emery may of cleared up my problem,,, but then again, maybe not? I will never know now, but in the future I will check the contact points first! Tomarrow, I am putting together the new system. (I have all plastic pipes in the house) I learned along time ago that a house you own in an area of the country that gets down to minus 20 deg. (often in the winter) is much easier to fix broken pipes if they are plastic. My furnace has never when on the blink while I was away. (I keep it heated year round) But I know all it would take would be a power failure for a day or so and any water left in the pipes would make a mess. I dont drain the system when I leave (completely). I just run the water out of the lines and what ever is still hangin in there is what is there. I am back and forth so many times a winter that I feel replacing pipes once in ahile would be alot less work than trying to blow out the whole damm thing (sometimes) two to three times a month.
I have anouther question. In my local home I switched my pressure tank, On this tank I put in pvc coming out of it along with all its hook ups (gauge,shut off etc). I have had no problems with this. Does anyone see a problem with using pvc with the pressure tanks? (Dont worry about "code" I dont! Atleast not when it comes to something like this.
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I use plastic/pvc on evrything. All the air in my shop is pvc. Lots easier to fix. Out and in the pressure tank or up to the octupuss looking fitting it's all black plastic.
Neighbor burned his house down sweating copper. Copper looks purty when done by a professional. If I could afford a pro I'd do it if I could wait for them to find time in their schedules.
I only have a guy with a little knowledge about alot of things trying to keep all of the systems working and maintained around here. He does almost all of it and sometimes it ain't purty but it works.
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PVC and Code,
Funny how it is not allowed on air lines, which I think operate well within the limit of the PVC range.
A plumbing supply dealer told me the reason is with air, PVC can explode throwing material as a bomb. Found that hard to believe until last summer under hot metal roof...a joint blew. Glad no one was in the shop or under the shed where the line blew back to. Yep, I put back PVC, but it is almost totally covered by wood.
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Another problem is someone going into your home/shop and start to work on a pipe they feel is just a water pipe and having it explode in their faces because they weren't expecting Propane or compressed air to be in a PVC pipe.
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I don't beleive I would run any type of fuel in a PVC or any other type of line that could burn. Boy what a shock it would be when melted.
I have know of plastic water line putting out fire that was started on purpose. Seems the homeowner was not that smart to know it would melt. Got to love it.
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I would not either, I was replying to Harvey who said he used PVC for EVERYTHING. Trying to give him a heads up on how dangerous that could be and how he could open himself up to a lawsuit if he called in for service and someone who had no clue he was using PVC for everything, got injured working on what he thought was a water pipe or a drain pipe even.......
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