Booster pump system

Intplm.

See the pictures. It has been used for the past few years in the summer months only. Have recently corrected some pressure issues by installing a new water main. I no longer need it and want it out of my basement. Reasonable offers, please.. Message me with an offer if interested, location pick up, etc. All are in working order.

Intplm.

Here are a few more pictures. The replaced galvanised water main shows an inside diameter the size of a pencil due to the corrosion build-up over the years. Records indicate the main was some seventy-plus years old.

I had the old water main piped into the white water storage tank shown (210 gallon capacity), and had the pump draw the water out of that tank and into the house. The blue pressure tank is equivalent to an Amtrol WX202. The pump is a Goulds 3/4 hp. This system has only pumped fresh City water. I needed this setup because I'm down a shared driveway that is three hundred yards long, and the last house that the line served, so, a lot of line loss, not to mention the corrosion issues and the leaks I had to fix over the years, four feet below ground. This system worked great, but I was able to get the corroded line replaced, and I no longer need it.

I'm in the southern Rhode Island, southeast Connecticut area. Send me a message with any questions.

Alan (California Radiant) Forbes

You live in a beautiful area. Done well for yourself.

EBEBRATT-Ed

We take water for granted. Sucks when you have issues.

My brother bought an old 1835 house back in the 90s. Had low water pressure from the well but it was ok.

50 feet from the house is his well house which looks like a little dog house. There is an artesian well and a pressure tank in the dog house with 3/4" galvanized running under the driveway to the house he keeps a couple of light bulbs burning in the winter for heat and insulated the dog house. No issues until one day he gets up and there is NO water in the house not even 1 drop. 40 lbs of pressure in the dog house and not a drop in the house the old galvanized rusted up.

Had the well company out and they had to dig it up. This was December and the ground as really frozen.

Intplm.

Thanks, @Alan (California Radiant) Forbes it's been a grind. I'm heading back to work soon to my semi-retired job for the coming warmer months. I can't bring myself to put down the wrenches yet. I only work late spring, summer, and fall now. I escape to warmer weather and head south during the winter. There's something about the cold of winter that is entirely unappealing now. Once upon a time, I didn't mind the cold. Now, not so much.

@EBEBRATT-Ed The worst time for your brother to have a "no water call". I always felt awful for a customer when this type of call came in, especially during cold weather. Good to have folks like us around to help.

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I'm looking to sell all of it, the entire system, for $600.00. It's somewhere around $2200 if purchased new. It will serve someone well.

I should mention that I used a stainless steel and plastic float similar to a toilet tank float to fill the storage tank, and turn the water off when filled. The entire system works great.

EBEBRATT-Ed

@Intplm.

I here you on the cold weather. I remember all the jobs I did in the winter outside on the RTUs and piping on a roof in the snow with the wind blowing. I don't even want to go out in the winter now.

I know galvanized can plug up but to go from a normal volume of water to not a drop in one day is difficult to believe.

Intplm.

Very true. I have seen my old galvy water main break. Heal itself and break again. I don't own a backhoe. I was lucky to have friends who did. The breaks happened most of the time at the couplings. Or in this case, the thread protectors. Right at the joint, most of the time. I did a post on poor water pressure here years ago. I'm glad to be done with it.