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Water Pressure

awbigslim
11 years ago

I just recently had issues with my water pressure in my house. I have a well system. My water pressure before this has been excellent. I don't know all the specifics of how deep well is or size of pump because I just bought this house 2 years ago. But this is what is going on I have a bladder tank and a water softener and whole house filter(which is changed regularly and has a brand new filter in right now). If I use the water the pressure is good and then after about a minute or so it drops to almost nothing. The pressure will drop down to like 10 or 5 psi. Then when I turn off the faucet the pressure goes back up to 30 fairly quickly(I have a 30/50 switch, replaced about 1 1/2 years ago) up to 30 psi then it crawls up to 50 when the switch kicks off. I thought maybe the well was drying up but I don't think this is the problem. I think there is something wrong either with the bladder, or maybe the pump or something in the well, whatever else is in the well. So can the pump be going and not producing the psi it should be, or do the pumps just fail altogether and not pump any water? Any ideas? Thank you.

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