well problem

[gamakatsu]

i have lived at this house for 4 years now and on sunday nite i went to sink and there was little pressure there. i checked the pressure gauge and it was on 20 lbs. now i dont know how deep the well is but it has been there for 16 years , but it has a 4 inch pipe with a submersible pump into it. my thought is that the pump is shot or the fins are wore out that is why it can only build pressue up to 20 lbs. i do get water out but the pump runs all the time, any help on this would be greatly appreciated

[sparcebag]

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[art321]

Does your pump run when you turn off all water in the house? If it kicks in and out or runs constantly anyway you most likely have a leak in the piping to the pump or as you said, could be the pump itself. I had this happen last year. It was just a small corrosion breakdown in the threading where two sections of pipe met about 180 ft down. I replaced the whole thing up to the house since our pump was the original(1972) and since they already had all the pipe pulled it was cheaper and time to do it. Cost of metal really drives up the price of all that pipe going down 230 feet. Definitely do something because constant running will kill the pump real fast.

[gamakatsu]

thanks for the replies, yes it was the pump. i replaced it and now every thing is better, again thank you