Recent content by uratool

It's invasive honeysuckle...if you don't get all the roots they will resprout. They spread by both seed and root runners, pull the thing out and then keep checking the area for a couple years. Good luck! :giggle:

I missed the original post...there's one of these not far from me built in 1933...we get snow, its been tested. First time I attended a game looked up and said "Huh" :unsure: Great place to drink a tallboy and see a game. :beer:

If you wind up doing this project...any chance the well pipe is radioactive to a degree that might be a concern? Knew some ignorant, well-meaning folk that built a cattle fence using radioactive stem pipe and now have to be monitored periodically by their state agency.

The device is doing it's job perfectly...the machinist would finish his lunch early every day for an entire year and utilize the rest of his hour long break creating a tool with no discernable use...for the sole purpose - befuddlement of the denizens residing in the inky shadows of forum...

Had an intermittent smell in the basement I couldn't locate, bought a cheap ($30?) natural gas detector off amazon, immediately found the source was the crock seal for the ejector pump out to the septic. Turns out if the wind was from the right direction the gas would leak into the house. The...

Ordered the 66lb - just under $60 delivered and tax included. Crazy!

All mine (20 total) are now delivered in perfect shape - 3 boxes over 2 days. Opening the first box was an old-school harbor freight flashback...that chemical smell you so fondly remember. They seem well built and a good deal.

In for 20...appreciate the post OP! :beer:

I'll remove the check valve this weekend...Appreciate all the responses!

Looks like this picture

Just looked up pictures of a vacuum breaker...it's a check valve.

There's a check valve on top of the submersible pump to keep the house from backfeeding and to protect the pump. Check valve between the pressure tank and the water heater seems unusual but I've only been responsible for a few systems so my experience is limited..

Agree with this... didn't mention earlier that I replaced the relief valve and the symptoms persist unchanged. Still wonder "what's changed?"

any chance you're in the UP?

My home is on a well, to my untrained eye it always seemed like a "typical" pressure tank/submersible well pump residential system I've had in other houses. Having issues with the water heater relief valve leaking after the heating cycles, about a cup or two of water out the relief valve onto...