I been a city person most of my life, until 6 years ago. I can tell you there is a all together set of learning to do, living in the country. Last week I had my son and his family of 4 on a weeks visit. Well last Saturday the pressure went to 0 and the pump wasn't working. I took off the pressure switch cover and had my son throw the tester on the points. There was juice. I than went out and took the black tape off the wires in the well. The tester had a very fine light. Back to the basement. The pump started to run but the pressure wasn't there before the pump shut down agan.Found a valve near the pressure valve about 1/2 hour later and open the valve and tapped the pressure valve. The pump started up again. But shut down. Figured with all the iron in my water, that the pressure valve was plugged after 6 years. Open the valve agan and gently tapped the valve. the pumped kicked on and I let the water run for a while. Now the pump runs, the pressure is back to normal and I am going to purchase another pressure valve just in case. But I will be doing the same thing to the pressure valve as I do to the holding tank and water tank, that will be to flush them out once a month. I did pour some bleach down the well today for my spring clean out.
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