About 2 months ago I started hearing a noise coming from my bathroom that sounded like loud humming every 3 or 4 seconds after I would turn on the water or flush the toilet. I noticed that when this noise happened the water pressure would increase and then it would go back to normal. Then the noise started to get louder. Last night while my husband was taking a shower the water lost pressure and then completely turned off. Now I have no water at all whatsoever except for maybe a few drops when I turn the faucet on. I have a private well and when I bought the house I was told that the well is underneath one of my bedrooms because the house was built on to and they built over the well. I know I can get to the pump from the crawl space. Has anyone had this problem or does anyone know what it might be or maybe even how much it could cost to fix?
can you take pump apart an clean
sounds like a vacum valve problem you need a plumber or a pump person does not sound like a good job for a dyi.
Hi. You could have a pressure tank that is in need of replacement or adding air to. The air cushion in the tank has either become compromised or has disappeared completely leaving no air cushion to let the pump build up pressure against. The pump is basically running every time you use even the smallest amount of water and this will basically cause the pump to self destruct. The next thing you may have is a bad pressure switch that is both causing the noise and the pressure variations from the nature of the points being bad. This is not expensive to fix. Under forty bucks. The other fix may run into the several thousands. Sorry. Hope this helps.
I am currently experiencing something similar. Our pump started making a loud noise like you mention. I had a plumber come out who works will well pumps and he told me it was a bad bearing in the pump (we has a deep well jet pump, the pump is on the surface). He also told me it could stop working in a day or a week or a month, no way to tell. So we bought a used and fixed up pump, hired a plumber to put it in this past Monday. Everything was working fine, until this morning (Thursday) I wake up to find that we have no water, not even a trickle. Trying to get a plumber back out here today. From what I can surmise from phone calls, it looks like it MAY be the pressure switch. In any event, it is most likely something electrical. If it was the submersed part of the pump, the pump would be turning on as if to work, and you'd have no water, or the pump would run all the time with little or no water. When we bought the fixed up pump it was $200 (they are $500 brand new). The plumber charged us $200 to put it in.
Do you have a pressure tank? if so you might need a new pressure tank. My well had a similar problem which required me to replace both the pump and pressure tank. check your tank first if you have one if not you will have to replace the pump unfortunately you are in a predicament on location of the pump this pump should be removed vertically and with a crawl space this will prove to be difficult. I hope this helps good luck on the situation. If doing yourself please note this is a 2-3 man job on pump replacement. Pumps generally run between 100-300$ make sure the pump you purchase meets ampage requirements of the existing pump.
