[speedball1]

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.

[speedball1]

Air hammer occurs when there's no cushion of air to take up the shock of water stopping suddenly. I think when you replace the bladder tank you will have solved the water hammer problem. The fact that you have to keep recharging it tells me that the bladder tank's faulty. Regards, Tom