Well pump is leaking; what to do?
Wade Lippman wrote:
With the valve to the house shut off, my pump comes on at 20psi, takes a
minute to pump up to 42psi, shuts off, and takes 4 minutes to work down
to 20psi, ad infinitum.
I have a large diameter pipe that sticks out of the ground about a
food. At ground level inside the pipe is a metal box that says Square
D. About two feet below that a white plastic box is attached to the
side of the pipe; presumably the pipe to the house comes out of the
plastic box. A stream of water is coming out of the side of the box.
The cap to the well says I have a Franklin submersible 2 wire 120v 7a pump.
I normally do all my own plumbing (I've installed water heaters and
pressure reduction valves....), but obviously don't know anything about
wells. Presumably the plastic box is cracked and has to be replaced, but
I am not even sure how to get at it.
Any help, or even links to good websites, would be appreciated.
In the mean while, we only have the pump on about 3 days a week, and it
only runs 25% of the time, so that is like leaving a 100w bulb on.
That's not so bad, is it? Reason I mention this is that the pump was
old when we bought the house 20 years ago. If it is not something I can
fix, it might be cost effective to just let it run until the pump dies
and then have a plumber fix everything at once, rather than coming out
twice.
fix the leak
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