plumbing question…

to make a short story long.. I had a terrible electric bill. I spoke to my landlord about it,, and we discovered that my well was running about 4 to 5 times an hour.. maybe even more..
so they came and changed the check valve.. which was completely destroyed..

however.. since then.. I have no pressure on my cold water on various areas throughout the house.. or very little.. to the point where it took close to 20 minutes to fill my washing machine on a cold water wash..

help.. opinions , suggestions. definate answers..

oh and thank you for your previous expert advise.
this board has some of the best minds when it comes down to daily problems then I have ever seen. and that’s no joke..

Not a plumber but it seems the bladder in your pressure tank has given out, or it needs bled down and recharged.

Rat if the valve was gone it could be blocking the inlet valve on the washer. I do appliance service and you would be suprised how often solder from welds block the valves. Your water heater stops the particles in the line from hot water but the cold is not filtered unless you have a softner hooked up. Just a few things to check.
Stonecutter

Do you have a whole house filter after your pressure tank? A lot of times when we work on pressure taknks the filter will plug.

If it is happening to various faucets,it most likeley is the faucet areators are pluged up from the debris when changing your check valves. When you turned the system back on it flushed the debris into the system.

Most washing machines have a screen in the hose or in the fill valve itself. Unscrew your connection and see if it is plugged.

Checking the simplest things like areators, screens, filters and making sure valves are open all the way is what I would do first. If you have old galvanized pipe rust may of been knocked loose and clogged a line some where. If your piping is old enough to be galvanized it most likely needs to be replaced.

From there try checking the water pressure at the well tank fitting. There should be a boiler drain on there to attach the hose. If you have good pressure there, and the pump is cycling properly then its time to start looking at the piping in the house. If you have poor pressure at the well tank you may need to start looking back towards the pump.

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Most washing machines have a screen in the hose or in the fill valve itself. Unscrew your connection and see if it is plugged.

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Yep.. I did that.. and it was full of brown crud from the well.. I still need to check various areas.. but my one faucet from the house to my hose is crap.. or was on Friday.. and my water to my bathroom sink still sucks.. is there a screen before it hooks into the sink itself?

First thing to check on the faucet is the aerator. If it still has bad pressure it could be something clogged inside the faucet.

I just ran into this problem remodeling 3 bathrooms in the same house. I had to move a couple shower valves and run new copper. After all the work of moving pipes around it knocked deposits loose and plugged just about all the aireators in the whole house. One was completely plugged not even a drop. WE unplugged them and bought a couple that couldn’t be unplugged and they ran good then. They have a well plus a water softener but they still got plugged. Check the aireators first then turn the on and off valves a few times to knock anyhing loose they they may be holding. Then flush the system then put on the new or clean aireators, we did this and it ran fine.

i completely removed the bathroom aerator a year ago.. there just is little cold water getting out of that faucet..

that’s why I am wondering if there is a screen before the faucet..

Is your plumbing water pipes copper or the older steel threaded pipes?

No screen before the faucet. Just smaller tubing going into the faucet and possibly a cartridge in the faucet.

Just a side note here probably to little too late for you Old rat.
When ever you shut the main house water valves off, you need to try and turn the system back on slowly. And open a laundry faucet to flush the system out.

One thing I do every year, having a well myself, is shock the well. This kills any bacteria that may be growing and also seems to really knock the crud off the pipes. I pour 2 gallons down the case, then run an outside faucet until I smell bleach. Then I shut it off for about 3 hours, then I remove all the screens at my faucets, bypass the water softner and the Ice maker water gets turned off. Then I flush the system, until I can’t smell bleach. This can take about 4-5 hours, and multiple use’s. Sure gets alot of crud out

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