If you are like thousands of other people that suffer from low water pressure in your home there is a solution. For years people that have private wells have had to deal with pressure problems, and did not realize that there is a solution!
A private bedrock well (or artesian) is one of the best water supplies that you can have. YOU are in charge of the water you drink and no one else! This is a wonderful thing that many take for granted!
Now, with regards to pressure, most people have a standard pressure tank in the basement that has a pressure switch. This pressure switch regulates the on and off of your well pump. Most pressure switches are set for a standard 40/60 or 30/50 PSI. What does this mean? WELL, when the pressure in the pressure tank falls down to 30 or 40 psi the pressure switch makes contact and this turns the well pump on and the pump starts to deliver water to the pressure tank and then out to the home. The problem with this old technology is if you are taking a shower and someone flushes the toilet or turns the dish washer on or tries to use water outside you will see a considerable pressure drop. This is because you are using a conventional pump system and the pump cannot keep up with the demand of water in the home. (Another common complaint is this; “when I am taking a shower and someone flushes the toilet I lose water pressure and get hit with a burst of cold or hot water)
ITS 2011! – we don’t have to live with low water pressure any longer, There is a solution for this problem and its called CONSTANT PRESSURE Pump Systems. The preferred constant pressure pump system is made by Grundfos. The Grundfos constant pressure “soft start” pump system utilizes a transducer that constantly monitors the flow of water to the home and simply put, it speeds up to deliver the flow rate based on the demand and it delivers whatever you have the controller pre set at for pressure from 40-100psi.
We recommend locking the pressure in at 70psi for residential applications.
With this system you can have constant water pressure everyplace in the home without loosing pressure in different areas. This system does not utilize a pressure tank that sits on the floor but rather a stainless steel manifold that mounts neatly on your basement wall which saves you valuable space and is much nicer to look at! Below is an actual example of what the inside manifold looks like when you install a constant pressure pump system in your well.
