My last post was well water running out in house until... Please read it and see if you can figure out what's wrong. Thanks : )

count coco fang

What is going on? Can I help

Patchouli78

Well, I have lived in my house for two years and have always had problems with my well. The water in the house will run out for a few hours or even days. I would turn on the faucets and nothing would happen. Then one day I discoverd that if I go outside to the spicket in the yard (it's the lever type), and lift it up the water comes out and pulls it into the house. Now whenever I run out of water in the house, I go outside and lift the spicket handle. My house sits at the top of a hill and my well is at the bottom so its not like I can hear it or anything. Someone told me maybe my well was running dry, but then why would the water come out of the spicket every time?

Fr_Chuck

how high up a hill is the well pump having to send the water. Have you checked the actual tank when this happens,

Patchouli78

I'm about 250 feet away from the well and it goes up 50 feet of hill. The well was shared, but now I'm the only one on it. I'm not sure what I should be checking with the tank. Should I run down and check it while I have water or when I'm out? I still don't understand why the spicket draws it up?

jlisenbe

"if I go outside to the spicket in the yard (it's the lever type), and lift it up the water comes out and pulls it into the house. Now whenever I run out of water in the house, I go outside and lift the spicket handle."

You're saying that when you have no water in the house, you can go down the hill to this spigot, pull up the lever, and then you have water again in the house? Wow, that is strange. Let's get a little info.

Where is the pressure tank, at your house or in a pumphouse at the wellhead? Wherever it is, what pressure does the tank read when you have no water in the house?

Patchouli78

No, I don't go down the hill, the outside spicket (faucet) is in my front yard. It's the kind with the lever you pull up. The wellhouse and everything to it is down the hill.

Patchouli78

Just to make sure we're on the same page, it's like the spicket attached to the side of a house, only it's in my yard coming up from the ground (the kind that have a lever you lift up to turn on) that's the thing that I lift up and then magically the water seems to come on inside my house. The wellhouse pump, tank, etc, are down the hill. The water will eventually come on inside on it's own but that could take awhile, if I lift this up, it will come out of this in a few seconds, and then will come on in the house.