Tag Archives: water pressure

what is the required water pressure for a nice shower?

Guys! Please advise me about the required water pressure for a good shower?. I am planning to remodel my bath room and I am thinking if I should install power booster pump for my shower or not.

clogged pressure control switch for well pump?

The opening into the switch which senses the water pressure in the system can become clogged with sediment or debris. How can I unclog this?

What is causing low water pressure in aboveground pool?

I have recently bought a house, and it already had a aboveground pool in place. This is the first time I have ever had a pool. The pump and filter is setup, but I seem to have issues with maintaining water pressure to vacuum and filter the pool. The pool has a cartridge filter. I … Continue reading

my well pump has water coming out of some sort of (looks like) a release valve on the side…?

any ideas? any ideas? water pressure is bad

Pump ran dry for a long time – should I replace?

This is for our drinking water/household plumping system: I have 1HP 220v surface mount jacuzzi brand jet pump (model S1CY-S) that pumps from a cistern (cistern bottom is about 8+ feet below the height of the pump). The pump needs to pump up 15′ to reach the first floor and another 10′ to reach the … Continue reading

Having problems with the water storage tank for our well?

Our well is about 30 feet deep. We don’t have sulphur, like most people around here do who have deeper wells. We do have iron and lime. Our water pressure has never been good. Several years ago, we installed a deep well jet pump and replaced some of the most of the plumbing (some of … Continue reading

low water pressure to spa?

I have a pool with attached spa all working off of the same pump and filtration system. I’m not getting much water pressure from the spa jets which makes it hardly worth the effort to use the spa. Any recommendations or simple adjustments I can make? This is an in ground pool and spa. I … Continue reading

First time pool owner, just had a professional open the pool today. They put all the necessary chemicals in .

and turned on the sand filter system, but they noticed that my gauge was bad, it was not giving an accurate readout so they told me to get a new one, problem is they didn’t tell me how to install the new one. so now the trouble begins… WIth the filter and pump running, I … Continue reading

Sump Pump problem, now the Well?

I live in North East, Maryland and it has been raining like crazy. Our sump pump has been broken for a year. Our basement flooded, but we cleaned it up. When I tried to plug the sump pump in….it blew a breaker. I flipped the braker back to on. Now for some reason, the well … Continue reading

Well Pump – no water in the house?

I just bought a house with Well water. It’s been vacant for a while, I turned the power on, the pressure gauge showed pressue and there is the noise that sounds like water is coming up, but it only lasted for a minute or two, not it’s all dead. Not water pressure. I have checked … Continue reading