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I have a Baker Monitor Handpump on my personal well at home.@Hojack
Do you ever install any hand pumps? I have thought about it for when the power is down. My grandparents still have the old hand pump from when they didn’t have plumbed water. This was well before my time but my mom remembers using it when she was young. Now it’s just a nice thing to look at in the old pump room now used more as a mud room entering the house.
The progression was from hand pump, to windmill, to the modern electric pump. Love that ranch house.
To prevent shaking or torque on the drop pipe there are torque stops. As far as the cloudiness after earthquakes must be an unstable formation where your getting water. Is the well casing perforated?about 155ft deep cased all the way, pump hung at 125ft. Was on galvanized pipe but changed to plastic at pump failure a few years ago.
Anybody have there own well. Do you know your own well depth & yield, pump HP & gpm?
I have no issues with it other than it not holding constant pressure. I usually have the system locked down at 60psi on the Grundfos control panel and the gauge after the tank fluctuates between 50-95 when not pumping, not exactly constant pressure.....According to Grundfos, it is normal for about a 10% fluctuation but I am having much more than 10%. Been this way since new (about 3 years ago). I am not happy with the installation as well. The main line from the tank to my Kinetico whole house system should be parallel to the wall and mine is definitely not parallel to the wall. Where the pipe comes out of the wall (from the well pump) the main line is like 4" from the wall and by the time the line gets down to the horizontal red lever it is like 8" from the wall??????????? Stevie Wonder must have been the installer.How do you like the Grundfos SQE constant pressure system?
I’d get a larger pressure tank to stop the pressure fluctuations. Do you have a high static water level in the well?I have no issues with it other than it not holding constant pressure. I usually have the system locked down at 60psi on the Grundfos control panel and the gauge after the tank fluctuates between 50-95 when not pumping, not exactly constant pressure.....According to Grundfos, it is normal for about a 10% fluctuation but I am having much more than 10%. Been this way since new (about 3 years ago). I am not happy with the installation as well. The main line from the tank to my Kinetico whole house system should be parallel to the wall and mine is definitely not parallel to the wall. Where the pipe comes out of the wall (from the well pump) the main line is like 4" from the wall and by the time the line gets down to the horizontal red lever it is like 8" from the wall??????????? Stevie Wonder must have been the installer.
How can I tell? Would be good to know.I’d get a larger pressure tank to stop the pressure fluctuations. Do you have a high static water level in the well?
Is that something that the well driller should have supplied to me when he completed his work? I can always give him a call and ask for one otherwise.Do you have a well report?
In Oregon they are required on every well drilled. It’s filed through the state of Oregon water resources. I can look up the well ID tag and find everything about that well.Is that something that the well driller should have supplied to me when he completed his work? I can always give him a call and ask for one otherwise.