Hello everyone! I've searched high and low and cannot find an answer to my problem. Its more of an annoyance, but I figure this annoyance will become a bigger problem over time. My house has well water. I have a pvc well outside, with a bladder inside. I do not have a softener, my water goes straight from the well bladder to the house. The problem I am having is that I turn my water on, cold or hot, it does not seem to matter, and after it has been on for a short while, maybe 5 minutes, the pressure drops suddenly, to almost nothing, it sits for 2-5 seconds and comes right back. It will usually only do this one time and then its good. I was thinking the well pressure switch may need to be adjusted or replaced, but thought I would ask for a second opinion. Thanks! -Brent

A year ago I bought a house with a lousy shallow well, depth is unknown, flow seemed adequate but the trouble was it sputtered air all the time ...I live on a sandy island in the low country of SC and the well is only about 400 feet from tidal salt water. There is a dug pond in the front yard and we can see the water table is 15- 20 foot underground and has fluctuated +/- 3 feet during the first year. Water quality was ok; just lots of air. Most neighbors started out with shallow wells and later when to 500 foot deep wells because of flow and quality. There was a suction line on my 1/2 HP shallow well pump that was only 3/4" pipe!. The well guy who put in this well 20 years ago told me it made 5gal/min when new but I have tested it and it only makes 1-2 now... To get away from that sputtering issue I installed a 275 gal food grade plastic tank with float switched to now control when the well comes on....and then behind that new tank, I installed a second pump with a small air tank to pressurize the house system. This was a used sprinkler system 1 Hp pump. House pressure is improved and air sputter is gone. Tank is always clear with no signs of dirty water but we have made a new problem in that toilets show dirty water that stains ..but not all the time....it comes and goes. At first I though that maybe increased house pressure had knocked stuff loose in the polybutelene piping in the house? but it repeats every couple of days...or is the problem coming somehow from inside the old sprinkler pump I used ( it was full of black gunk I flushed out before installing). Is a well pump coated on the inside and a sprinkler pump just raw casting?) Somehow the problem is in my second pump addition. Looking for help where to go next!