RJ, when you pour bleach down the well, doesn't that affect the taste of your water? How much do you pour?
earlier, RJ, wrote: >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. > >RJ > > > >------------------------------------ > >Send any questions regarding list management to: >[email protected] >To listen to the show archives go to link >http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 >Or >ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > >Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From >Various List Members At The Following address: >http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > >Visit the archives page at the following address >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the >following address for more information: >http://www.jaws-users.com/ >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy >Man list just send a blank message to: >[email protected]! Groups Links > > > John
