Funny colors are usually iron contamination. Generally this is a taste/appearance issue and not a safety issue. For watering the garden I wouldn't worry, the plants won't care. But for your own peace of mind I would get the water tested to ensure it's safe to drink. If it's potable but unpleasant looking/tasting, then you can look into filters and reverse osmosis etc.
t. grew up drinking brown well water, never got cancer
Lol when I was little my family lived in a house with well water. Mom always said if we used all the water we wouldn't get any more until next spring.
Local little jimmy running the faucet the entire time he's brushing his teeth exhausts the entire water table for the whole freaking year.
Don't wanna kill a thread to ask this so I figured I'd find well-wishers in this thread. I have a pump in a well that provides water to the house, the expansion vessel sprung a leak so I bought a new one and I'm having trouble replacing it
The cylinder came out easily enough by taking out the lugnuts but the metal disk that goes into the pipe is very tight and I can't get a good grip to turn it (It also has some of that white plastic that's used to make it watertight that probably isn't helping) so I'm at an impasse. Should I give up and call a pro who knows what he's doing? It's literally unscrewing a pipe...
I think it's just plastic to seal it better, the part I want to remove is the metal disk to the right of that pressure meter so I can attach the new one, which has it's own disk that screws on with lugs.
You can just add some well sanitizer, let it sit overnight, then run it for a few hours before it clears up.
What a half assed shitty goddamn installation that is.
>What a half assed shitty goddamn installation that is.
I inherited it, worked for years in some pretty harsh weather, can't complain.
Yeah, that's what I'd do. Otherwise, every 5 years or so when you need to mess with this, you're going to b***h and moan. Trust me, I've been there. Get another pipe wrench too. Having two pipe wrenches turning in opposite directions will save you a lot of problems.
>white plastic
It's probably just pipe dope. That stuff can set up a bit, but it's designed to be able to be loosened. At least, I've never had an issue. It looks like the two black plastic fittings are some kind of union. You should be able to turn the knurled part opposite the part that's a hex shape. Does it look like there's two halves in the area I've circled? It might also be a combination of the two black pieces and that short piece of pipe between them. The idea with these is that they let you turn two halves in opposite directions without needing to worry about the direction of the rest of the threads.
I got the pipe off at the fittings and was able to take the whole thing off but that metal disk is impossible to unscrew. I even considered just using the old disk on the new expansion vessel but they don't seem to be the same size. Gonna have to cut it off (I can't even remove the pressure sensor because it's blocked from turning by the disk) but thanks for the advice.
>well sanitizer
Never heard of her. I just usually dump a bottle of bleach down it, wait half an hour, and then run the hose for an hour, or until I stop smelling chlorine.
You can get well sanitizer at most hardware stores. It's got bleach in it, but also like 10 other bacteria killing agents. Works a hell of a lot better than just bleach. It's about the same price as bleach too, pound for pound.
>You can get well sanitizer at most hardware stores.
I've gotten well parts at Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, and a couple other local places, and never seen it.
Get a sample analyzed. Then depending on what are you going to use the water for and the volume there are different filtration/sterilization systems.
It's for drinking watering the garden
Funny colors are usually iron contamination. Generally this is a taste/appearance issue and not a safety issue. For watering the garden I wouldn't worry, the plants won't care. But for your own peace of mind I would get the water tested to ensure it's safe to drink. If it's potable but unpleasant looking/tasting, then you can look into filters and reverse osmosis etc.
t. grew up drinking brown well water, never got cancer
It doesn't taste or smell funny it's just slightly Misty/ yellow the more you put out the first 10l are usually clean.
have you flushed it? If you ever used a fire hydrant you know it takes a while running full blast to get clean water.
Il try draining it all the way today.
You're gonna drain a well? Let us know how that goes.
Obviously he meant "drain the line"
No need to out yourself as a brainlet, my guy
Lol when I was little my family lived in a house with well water. Mom always said if we used all the water we wouldn't get any more until next spring.
Local little jimmy running the faucet the entire time he's brushing his teeth exhausts the entire water table for the whole freaking year.
More like next spring in hundreds of years.
Don't wanna kill a thread to ask this so I figured I'd find well-wishers in this thread. I have a pump in a well that provides water to the house, the expansion vessel sprung a leak so I bought a new one and I'm having trouble replacing it
The cylinder came out easily enough by taking out the lugnuts but the metal disk that goes into the pipe is very tight and I can't get a good grip to turn it (It also has some of that white plastic that's used to make it watertight that probably isn't helping) so I'm at an impasse. Should I give up and call a pro who knows what he's doing? It's literally unscrewing a pipe...
Here? Looks like it's been soldered based on that silver colored ring there in the circle.
I think it's just plastic to seal it better, the part I want to remove is the metal disk to the right of that pressure meter so I can attach the new one, which has it's own disk that screws on with lugs.
>What a half assed shitty goddamn installation that is.
I inherited it, worked for years in some pretty harsh weather, can't complain.
You know any pro is just going to cut that shit off and run something new. Do the same.
Yeah, that's what I'd do. Otherwise, every 5 years or so when you need to mess with this, you're going to b***h and moan. Trust me, I've been there. Get another pipe wrench too. Having two pipe wrenches turning in opposite directions will save you a lot of problems.
>white plastic
It's probably just pipe dope. That stuff can set up a bit, but it's designed to be able to be loosened. At least, I've never had an issue. It looks like the two black plastic fittings are some kind of union. You should be able to turn the knurled part opposite the part that's a hex shape. Does it look like there's two halves in the area I've circled? It might also be a combination of the two black pieces and that short piece of pipe between them. The idea with these is that they let you turn two halves in opposite directions without needing to worry about the direction of the rest of the threads.
I got the pipe off at the fittings and was able to take the whole thing off but that metal disk is impossible to unscrew. I even considered just using the old disk on the new expansion vessel but they don't seem to be the same size. Gonna have to cut it off (I can't even remove the pressure sensor because it's blocked from turning by the disk) but thanks for the advice.
You can just add some well sanitizer, let it sit overnight, then run it for a few hours before it clears up.
What a half assed shitty goddamn installation that is.
>well sanitizer
Never heard of her. I just usually dump a bottle of bleach down it, wait half an hour, and then run the hose for an hour, or until I stop smelling chlorine.
You can get well sanitizer at most hardware stores. It's got bleach in it, but also like 10 other bacteria killing agents. Works a hell of a lot better than just bleach. It's about the same price as bleach too, pound for pound.
>You can get well sanitizer at most hardware stores.
I've gotten well parts at Lowes, Home Depot, Ace, and a couple other local places, and never seen it.
And you also haven't been looking for it. So....