Extending well pump life

[Clair_Schwan]

Howdy all:

I've just updated my website with information that you might find useful.

When I first moved into my ranchette in 2002, I upgraded my well water system to address several deficiencies, including limited capacity. I have now created a page on my site that explains how adding storage capacity can help lengthen the life of the well pump and potentially save you thousands over the long haul.

This link takes you directly to the page:

http://www.frugal-living-freedom.com/water-pressure-tank.html

In addition to helping preserve my submersible pump, I also modified the system configuration to have well water go through a screen and filter before it reached my double check valves and pressure tanks. This has eliminated check valve seat wear that was a problem for the previous owner.

It also keeps gunk out of the pressure tanks and extends the life of the particulate filter.

I hope this information is useful to those of us wrestling with similar problems.

Clair

[MadTripper]

Interesting read. Thanks for posting.

Tripper

[WRTN]

Great write up and I like the way you have the filters set up. Been working on a similar situation at our place. I would make one suggestion and that would be to add a Franklin Pumptec to your submersible well pump to protect it in the event the well runs dry or there is an under or over voltage condition.

We had a VERY limited producing well and ended up tieing 2 separate wells together which made a big difference. We are getting the components together to tie in a 3rd well and add an 80 gallon bladder tank to the system.

We have Pumptecs on both wells and they have paid for themselves a 1,000 times over when the well ran dry.

[Clair_Schwan]

WRTN:

Thanks for the heads up on the Franklin Pumptec. I will check into it. Several of my neighbors have run their wells dry near the end of the year.

Clair