Newbiehomeowner
New Member Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 25
Water Hammer Effect
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I have a question for you and an update on my backing up toilet problems of a few months ago. When my short cycling well runs, due to a loss of air pressure in the captive air tank which is next in line to have replaced, I hear the pipes knock a couple or three times when it shuts off. I vaguely remember one of your past messages to someone stating that this was an indication of a check ball or check valve problem. This is a submersible well by the way. I went out to where the pipes come up out of the ground and felt them as the well motor quit running and you could feel the knocking. What should I do? ---Update on the backed up toilets, I found a Father and son team who replaced the drain field on this 45 yr. old house and said I was good to go for another 40 years at a cost of 1350.00 , which is why the captive bladder air tank will have to wait for a couple of months for me to recoup $$$. At the present, it is not short cycling since monthly I have drained the system and used a bicycle pump to put air back in the tank at the schraeder valve on top. This seems to temporarily solve the extreme short cycling until I can afford a new captive air tank. Thanks... Neil up in Ocala area.
