Well Pump Check Valve Replacement

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Well pump check valve replacement.

It could be a broken water line from the well to the house usually you ll have a wet area between the well head and the house a bad check valve just above the submersible pump at the bottom of the well a bad connector leaving the well casing or even a broken water line inside the well casing. Well pump replacement cost. A foot valve is only used in a jet pump situation where the pump resides above ground and shoots some water down the well to help lift more water back up. When selecting the replacement pump don t just assume that the last guy chose the perfect pump for the job.

Buy a check valve. Over 5 hours of editin. Replacing a well pump and pressure tank together costs 800 to 2 300 minor well pump repairs cost 150 to 600. On a submersible well pump installation if your well water pump does not have a built in check valve many submersible pumps do have a check valve a line check valve should be installed in the discharge pipe within 25 feet of the pump and below the drawdown level of the water inside the well.

Almost 2 hours of original footage including time lapse reduced to 18 minutes. The average cost to replace a well pump is 538 to 1 851 depending on the type of pump horsepower brand and well depth. This video has been well over a month in the making. Hello i ve lived in my home for about 4 5 years and have always wondered if the random cycling of my well pump could be do to me not having a check valve between the pump tank and the well pump.

Installing new wires or piping for the pump adds about 200 each complex piping work or upgrading to a solar or constant pressure. Looking at the close up picture of the assembly there s a 1 1 4 stainless nipple threaded into the top of the well pump a 1 1 4 check valve brass and a stainless steel reducer aka spur that goes into the hose line. A foot valve is located at the bottom of a well and acts like a one way check valve allowing water to go up the pipe toward the house but not drain backward into the well.