Post #9969

One of the neighbors here is pulling a well pump today. Over winter the cabin wasn't in use, so his bro in law shut off the pump but didn't drain pipes. Recently bro in law turned on the pump and said something about hte water pressure was low but didn't check anything. Turns out a pipe had frozen thru the winter and hte pump was pumping 100% of the time. Now the pump burned up. So... replace your pressure switch with a low pressure shut off switch. As long as water pressure in house stays above 15 psi, the switch will cycle pump normally... but if pressure falls below 10psi, it trips off until manually reset.