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    New / rural construction Help

    If you use the rolled Poly pipe you will not have many joints. I would recommend fusion joints for everything on the main system. the Fuser machine is available to rent from quite a few places. Per a manufacturers site: HDPE 4710 offers many advantages over HDPE 3408, including higher...
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    Pressure Tanks in Series

    Most tanks sold today are the diaphragm type and have a rubber diaphragm which isolates the air chamber from water. And the air in the upper chamber above the diaphragm is preset to 2-psi less than the pump cut in pressure. Typically, there is no water movement into the air chamber unless the...
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    Pressure Tanks in Series

    General Comment on Pump Failures. The number one reason I have observed to cause a pump failure, it the pressure tank bladder has failed. Which fill the air chamber with water and causes severe short cycling. A pressure tank is generally sized to run the pump four or five minutes, long enough...
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    Assistance with Commercial Toilet on 3/4" meter supply line.

    Zern makes, maybe made, an in wall blow molded poly tank which goes in the wall cavity, tee-d into the feed to the toilet, and holds enough water for two code compliant toilet flushes at, I think 30-psi. It is just a thin plastic tank with inlet/outlet at the bottom, a check valve on the tee...
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    Assistance with Commercial Toilet on 3/4" meter supply line.

    The EPA, and the State regulators would disagree with you about it mattering only to the utility..
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    Water Heater on a Grade - Level?

    It may not matter much, and would only be an issue if it wss so out of plumb that it was trapping air in the dome top. But I’m pretty sure it would tip over if thaat out of plumb, and not seismically strapped. I would definitely get some plastic shims and get it vertical. But, I’m the...
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    Cannot Find Cartridge for Bathroom Faucet

    Is the cartridge leaking or are the o-rings bad, and water is leaking past them. O-rings in most sizes can be found At a good hardware store, or failing that a good autoparts store. I bought two o-ring kits, (metric and SAE), at the local NAPA, for the guys to keep on their trucks. tey can...
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    Is water pressure and thick sediment after well shock normal?

    What is the status of your filter system? It may be completely clogged. A whole house filter should have prevented anything large enough to clog from getting past it.
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    Paper towels and an ejection pump

    And, absolutely ban diaper-wipes. Even if you have a grinder type pump, it will not handle diaper wipes. If hte grinder is the least bit dull the polyester felt stretches into threads which wrap around the pump shaft, and break the water tight seal, allowing effluent into the motor. I hate...
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    Confusion on the play, Bob.

    I‘m trying to help, my sister with her townhouse. Before he passed, her husband replaced al of the lavatory faucets with Moen, Adler units. Here is where the confusion begins: If I run the faucets in the master bath until they get hot, the flow shuts off. Same units in the hall and...
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    Contact tank prior to pressure tank?

    Depending on how much contact time you,, need things sound right. I might add a sediment filter after the contact tank, before the pressure tank.
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    Pre-Plumb for Water Softener Questions

    It all depends on how your plumbing is layed out. Depending on where you are, the feed to the house could be installed under the slab or in the crawl space, from east to west, and then charge the system from there. Or it could enter on the east wall, feed the hose bib, and then feed all the...
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    Framing for glass block: Rough opening size?

    You need to include space for the mortar on the end, quarter inch minimum. Probably a video on YouTube.
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    Rainfresh whole house UV filter system safe to drink?

    The problem with UV sterilization is that it typically doesn’t kill all of the bacteria, viruses, etc. pre-filtering it helps but not a whole lot. The survivors, are still in the water, and if you don’t have fairly rapid turn over, they start eating the remains of he dead ones and...
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    Procedures To Prevent Water Pipes Bursting in Cold Weather

    WE winterize a hundred or so buildings every year. We have installed a tee with a pressure guage, and then a valve, and then a bushing, and air fitting on he discharge side of all the water heaters. But it will work on the cold side too. WE read he pressure gauge to see what pressure the...
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    Problem Submersible Well Pump

    Where is he backflow valve located? I’ve seen the backflow fail, and he disc break loose. It then took more pressure to move an water. And the pump would short cycle, There was air getting in, which was then pumping though the system.
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    Steps to check and replace well pump

    Quite a few towns and cities in the west, are getting close to running out of water. Hopefully there will be a decent snow year, and they can make it another summer….
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    Submersible well pump low volume

    A pump curve only describes the hydraulics.. It does not compare that to amount of energy required for the pump to produce the curve. I used to go all over North America, verifying the efficiency of pumps comparing the wire horsepower required to run the pump, versus the hydraulic horsepower...
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    Submersible well pump low volume

    Do you have results of testing by an independent testing lab? I get the impression that you would argue about pumps and your valve with anyone who disagrees with you. I read your posts, and the information on your website. After that, I am still one of those engineers who doesn’t think...
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    Submersible well pump low volume

    Another potential is the backflow valve has an issue. We had an irrigation pump at work, that was acting similar to yours. The disk in the check valve was getting loose and moving to the top of the valve, and restricting the flow. If you shut the pump down, it settled back on its seat, and...
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