Re: OT: Well Pump

Posted by JayWalt on January 18, 2007 at 10:42:34 from (24.223.138.48):

In Reply to: Re: OT: Well Pump posted by El Toro on January 18, 2007 at 06:23:42:

Yea dude, he was right on. You DEFINITELY want a glass lined tank and the air bladder is key to getting good pressure and helps keep the pump fron cycling so much.

Our water heater is also 34 years old, an old 50gallon. About every 5 years the bottom element goes because the sediment gets so high, covers the bottom element and it can't dissapate it's heat to the water fast enough and burns out. So I have to go in there with a modified vacuum hose and get all the sediment out.

We do have a sediment filter, but it is in the crawlspace and doesnt get changed as often as it should. Dad has installed magnets on the lines because he read it changes their structure so they dont bind up. Now instead of the filter showing red, it shows black sediment, weird.

Ideally I would like to get a softenor and run a dedicated line to the sink for drinking nonsoftened water. However I have supersensitive skin and fear the salt would bother me.
I fear the day our water heater goes. Hopefully never, but nothing last forever. When we do I'll be the on installing it. It's going to be hard deciding on one because even the best glass lined wh's probably have 1/2 the glass (actually porcelin) coating as the cheapest old ones and is probably why ours has lasted so long. I am going to installed a water pan under it so when it does fail, and it will, it wont damage the floor, probably just drain it into the crawlspace, or tap into the endcap of the drainpipe. but then I'll need a trap to prevent gases fron coming up. I suppose I'll burn that bridge when I get there.
Dad has thankfully installed home made water alarms in key locations. In the future I would like to hook them up to either a solenoid actuated inline water vavle from the main line to shut off the water in the event of a failure. This is pobably not the best option because of the heavy sediment building up and possibly not allowing the valve to shut off. A better option might be a pump disconnect eletrically. It may cause the pump to loose prime, but that is more easily fixed then a new floor =P.

Alot of plans it seems, hopefully I will get around to implementing some of them before I get to old and full of arthritis. =(

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• Re: OT: Well Pump Rob Baird 19:13:39 01/19/07 (0)

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