I'm sorry for the newbie question but I my dad passed away a few years ago and I'm trying to help my mom out. She usually calls a lawn sprinkler company to start her sprinkler pump every year but I thought maybe I could save her a few bucks and ask the forum. My dad never told me how the thing works. She gets water from her pond via the pump seen and I believe it has to be primed but I wasn't sure. Is it as easy as unscrewing the top part of the pump and putting clean water in it until the hose to the water source is filled and then plugging the unit in? I believe the intake is in the lake with a filter.
Her rainbird controller is in the basement and I wasn't sure when to activate that or plug that in. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
Yes, you should be able to remove the plug on top and pour in water to prime it. Make sure the output valve is open like it is in your photo. Reinstall and tighten the plug so it's air & water tight. Then turn the pump on. If you can completely fill the pump and intake hose with water it will prime faster but if the pump is in good enough shape simply filling he pump housing is enough though it takes longer for it to prime. If it doesn't prime with 2 minutes running I would turn the pump off and add more water.
I'm pretty new to having a well, but I'm learning.
We had a storm that knocked out power for 5 days a few years ago when I lived in the city, but our water still worked the whole time. So I'm thinking about what we would do for water in the event of an extended power outage.
We have a submerged pump about 100' down. I've seen emergency hand pumps online that can be dropped down the well to get water if needed. But I was wondering if a pump that could be placed inline and used in the event of a power outage to manually draw water up the existing pipe that is attached to the submerged electric pump at the bottom of the well. That way, water could be pumped as needed to fill the pressure tank and it would still go through the filter system and out to fixtures as normal.
I have not been able to find any such pump, if they exist. I was thinking maybe a bypass could be created in the supply line with shut-off's so that during normal times, the water would just come up from the submerged pump and go into the pressure tank. But in the event of a power outage, the shut-offs could be switched to route water through the pump.
Is that possible?
Hey all,
So i have a septic box mound (essentially a mound system that is enclosed in treated wood). On each end of the box, there is about a 4" wide PVC pipe coming out with a cap covering each one. When I open the cap and look down, I can see sand about 3' or so down the tube. Each tube appears to be made of 2 parts: An upper blue portion that is solid and a lower white portion that has 4 holes drilled into it. I believe these are observation ports - is that correct?
The reason I'm asking is I was mowing the lawn up there and accidentally nicked the top of one - it busted the cap off and cracked / split the top of the tube itself. I'm wondering if this is as simple as just pulling out the upper end of the old PVC (the portion that is blue - approximately 1.5 feet long) and putting in a new one with the cap. Is that all I would need to do?
The pipe seems pretty solid in there, is it okay to dig around it to remove it?
Thanks!
05-21-21, 05:06 PM
