Helping a friend work on his well tonight and found he has a multitude of issues:
I think 1st his pressure switch plugged and the pump ran until it overloaded and shut off but did not kick off the breaker. Must have some type of thermal protecttion. Anyway that was 3 months ago apparently and since then he has just cut the power to well waited a while and turned it back on and it would work. Yesterday it finally gave up the ghost and I'm thinking he finally burned up the pump and it needs to be pulled. Can these be rebuilt?
On another issue is his pressure tank. He has 2 wells so we ran a hose from the good well to a T at the pressure tank. We could hear the water filling the hot water heater and house pipes and the guage ran up to 40psi. The pressure tank has 38psi of air in it but no water would go into the tank and fill it. We removed the elbow off the bottom of the tank and it looks as if the bladder has collapsed. I had never seen this before. Only issue I have ever experienced was a hole in bladder and the tank would fill with water. Anyone ever seen this.
I think 1st his pressure switch plugged and the pump ran until it overloaded and shut off but did not kick off the breaker. Must have some type of thermal protecttion. Anyway that was 3 months ago apparently and since then he has just cut the power to well waited a while and turned it back on and it would work. Yesterday it finally gave up the ghost and I'm thinking he finally burned up the pump and it needs to be pulled. Can these be rebuilt?
On another issue is his pressure tank. He has 2 wells so we ran a hose from the good well to a T at the pressure tank. We could hear the water filling the hot water heater and house pipes and the guage ran up to 40psi. The pressure tank has 38psi of air in it but no water would go into the tank and fill it. We removed the elbow off the bottom of the tank and it looks as if the bladder has collapsed. I had never seen this before. Only issue I have ever experienced was a hole in bladder and the tank would fill with water. Anyone ever seen this.