[Shop-talk] Well water hammer?

[Steven Trovato]

On my well, there is a foot valve down at the bottom of the well 
where the pump is.  That is what does most of the work preventing the 
water from draining back down the well.  I also have a check valve up 
at the pressure tank in the basement.  That's how it was when the 
house was built and it is still that way today.  There seem to be 
different opinions about the merits of multiple check valves.  I 
found a lot of info here:
  http://inspectapedia.com/water/Check_Valves_Water.htm
Good luck getting it all sorted out.

-Steve Trovato
strovato at optonline.net

At 12:12 PM 8/26/2014, Jim Franklin wrote:


>Any ideas on what's going on here? I'm wondering if something is wrong that
>killed the check valve. It looked original, 30 years old, spring had come
>undone and gotten stuck in the valve.