[socket650]

I have been reading the post on this subject and have a question that I have not seen addressed anywhere. I live in the country with a water well system. The house has low water pressure and requires a water softener to keep the hard water deposits down. I have been told the softener is not working do to low water pressure. My well and pressure tank are at the back side of a 1 acre wide 6 acre deep lot. The house sets on front of property about 1/4 mile from well. I have a 3/4 horse submersible pump in a well that is about 80 - 100 feet deep. What ideas do you have to increase the pressure to the house. I have considered a booster pump at the fence behind the house before the line splits and goses to barn system and to water softener.

[jlisenbe]

A 3/4 horse submerged pump at 100 feet should give you all the water you want. Your problem probably centers around the 1300 foot run to the house. What size pipe is used? A run that long of 3/4" pvc will use up some pressure by the time it gets to your house.

[socket650]

from what I have been able to tell they used 1 1/4 or 1 ,1/2 black roll pipe from the well to the house. I had to fix a T that had a rusted out shut-of value a couple years ago. So should have plenty of water flow just know pressure. It also looks like they spliced into the line going to the house to plumb in the water softener in the barn also. It appears to be 1" PVC pipe as that is what comes out of ground and into the barn. Thanks for any and all of your help

[jlisenbe]

According to this website, you will only lose a negligible amount of pressure over that run of pipe. I don't know why I didn't bother to ask this to begin with, but what is your pressure at the pressure tank, prior to the long run of pipe? This might be a simple issue of just raising your tank pressure some.

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