Any well pump guys in the Raleigh area?

Are you sure that the check valve is good? Is the pump sucking up a lot of silt? I mean, if the pump only lasted a year, find out why.
 
ord.sgt.26NC said:
no water line in front of the house at the road?
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Nope, I live way up in the sticks.

shawn said:
Are you sure that the check valve is good? Is the pump sucking up a lot of silt? I mean, if the pump only lasted a year, find out why.
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Yes, the check valve is good. It does suck up some silt but no more than the last pump did. This pump was supposed to be ok with that kind of stuff. I think it was just a shitty pump. I know the F&W is supposed to be good, but in my opinion, if it was really good they would come with more than a 1 year warranty.....

I'm going to but a Goulds pump from one of our reps at work on Monday. 5 year warranty and made for sandy water systems.
 
Have you tested your tank to make sure the bladder is good?

I'm with Shawn, something caused it to fail, sure a different one may last longer, but it's likely a bandaid to the real problem.

FYI warranties are dictated by marketing departments.
 
I haven't checked that, but I will once I get a new pump in there. You might be right about that being the problem, would explain the drop in pressure when more than one system was being used.

And I know warranties are dictated by marketing departments, but surely marketing departments realize that people like longer warranties, and if their product can withstand that, then they should give longer ones.
I get what you are saying though. Like Tommy Boy said - "if you want me to dump in a box and mark it guaranteed I will, I got spare time." :lol:
 
Blaze said:
I haven't checked that, but I will once I get a new pump in there. You might be right about that being the problem, would explain the drop in pressure when more than one system was being used.

And I know warranties are dictated by marketing departments, but surely marketing departments realize that people like longer warranties, and if their product can withstand that, then they should give longer ones.
I get what you are saying though. Like Tommy Boy said - "if you want me to dump in a box and mark it guaranteed I will, I got spare time." :lol:
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Kinda...a manufacture has to balance R&D improvement cost against warranty cost, realizing that not everyone who buys a product will even use it or redeem the warranty if valid. So frequently an inferior product will actually have a longer warranty because its cheaper to buy consumer confidence than to improve the product. Plus increased sales raised capital for life cycle improvement
 
Ron said:
Kinda...a manufacture has to balance R&D improvement cost against warranty cost, realizing that not everyone who buys a product will even use it or redeem the warranty if valid. So frequently an inferior product will actually have a longer warranty because its cheaper to buy consumer confidence than to improve the product. Plus increased sales raised capital for life cycle improvement
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Very true on all points, but you also have to take into account the wife factor. As in, we were looking for pumps last night and she said "let's not buy that one, it only has a one year warranty on it." :lol:
 
Ron said:
So frequently an inferior product will actually have a longer warranty because its cheaper to buy consumer confidence than to improve the product. Plus increased sales raised capital
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Ah yes, the "Harbor Freight" effect.
 
shawn said:
I told you the pump was shit.

:flipoff2:
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Nope, must have been a rock sticking out of the well wall or something that it was rubbing on. Something wore through the wire. Respliced the wire and raised it up about 2' in the well and it is back pumping.
 
Blaze said:
Nope, must have been a rock sticking out of the well wall or something that it was rubbing on. Something wore through the wire. Respliced the wire and raised it up about 2' in the well and it is back pumping.
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Smart move.
 
Shorter and still PUMPING. There's a joke in that somewhere...
 
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