Relocate Well Water Tank & increase PSI

Don't go to all of that trouble and expense. You can add and adjust your pressure switch to a greater pressure. You can purchase a 60/40 pressure switch giving you a 60psi top end pressure with a 40psi cut in/pump on pressure.

You can even do this with what you currently have. Adjusting the pressure switch to say, a fifty seventy psi adjustment can do all of what you are asking including the sprinkler system.

However. The age of your pump, tank and well can be a factor as they might not be able to take these adjustments.

If things are in good shape and are not too old and your well has a good recovery rate then I would simply adjust the pressure switch. And once that is done charge your tank to two (2) psi below the cut in setting with no water in it.

A few questions:

What is the model and type of tank?

What type of pump? Submersible? Jet pump?

What type of well? Shallow dug well? Drilled deep well? How deep is it and what is the static water level? Have you ever run out of water?

Does the pump maintain a pressure within the current psi setting? Or does it cycle between the settings.

What @Jamie Hall says above but for one thing. The sprinkler system can be run as long as the timing is correct and the quantity of heads that are used on each zone are properly sized.

@djclkirl you are in pretty good shape. And in the future when you put in the sprinkler system, tie the water supply in before the any water conditioning equipment.

And if you are looking for more pressure at the shower. You can remove the water saver inside the shower head, that should help too.

Hunter sprinkler systems. They have a great product with a very user friendly timer, heads etc.

Best to have it sized by the installer.

Your local health department may also have information on your well (they should, but…) which would include a yield test, depth to static water and depth of well. I'd be rather wary of the yield test figure, as very few drillers actually perform a proper yield test (back when I was drilling wells among other things, my company and one other were the only ones I knew of in western New England which did proper tests on residential wells!) but at least it will be a guideline.

Where is the pressure switch for the well? There's no problem relocating the pipe coming in — as @bburd said, it's under pressure so it can go pretty much anywhere you like. However, it is important that the pressure switch be at or very close to the pressure tank.

Yes, the grey box is the pressure switch. The cover lifts off and the contacts and adjustment are inside. WARNING: the contacts are not protected, and if the power is on, they're live!

You want to be sure that you do not isolate the pressure control from the pump inlet line by placing a valve between the pump and control.

Submersibles can produce enough pressure to blow fittings apart if no place for water to go.

This simple fact also applies to boilers/water heaters that might have a supply stop placed between them and the pressure relief valve……someone will eventually close the valve……

You need to understand completely that to replace a deep well/shallow well pressure tank it takes work that has to be done right the first time "strictly" depending on the initial type of piping installed AND IT SHOULD NEVER BE DONE ON A WEEKEND as you may well need help from a well driller, large plumbing supply company or a plumber.

Deep well pump wiring has been secured to the drop pipes wth electrical tape which leaches toulene into the water supply and that is not healthy.

Deep well submersible pumps have turbine vanes that are stacked in the pump housing to aid in increasing pressure to move water to overcome the depth of the well.

The submersible pump may or may not have an internal check valve installed in the top of the submersible pump to prevent water from passing back into the well which will cause the submersible pump to cycle much more often and the pump motor will fail much sooner.

The existing deep well submersible may or may not have an internal lightning arrestor or a lightning arrestor wired into the pump wiring.

Metal well casing makes for a great lightning rod that will blow up deep well submersible pumps if there is a ground lightning strike-been there done that at least 7 times. Jet pumps do not have that issue unless there is a direct lightning strike on thehome or local high voltage wiring feeders.

You can purchase complete tank and pressure switch kits with freeze/burst relief valves that are assembled and ready to install from a Red Jacket dealer and other brands.

Do you know where your pump disconnect switch is? Does it have a 2 cartridge fuse box or a pump control box hung on the wall at or near the pressure tank?

The following is very important-do you know what the deep well submersible pumps voltage is? 110 volts, 220 volts? 220 volt pump wire will have insulated 2 conductors.

Do you know if the well casing is at least 6 inches above the ground?

Do you know if the well casing has a single piece flat metal casing cap or a 2 piece well casing cap with a rubber sealing gasket and a hole in the bottom half of the cap for electrical conduit for the wiring?

Does the deep well pump have a pull rope connected to it? Are there check valves in the poly pipe?; they are normally installed one hundred feet apart based on the well depth.

A properly installed deep well submersible will have a rubber torque arrestor attached to the polyethylene pipe which stops the submersible turbine pump from twisting when it starts. The submersible deep well installation using blue or black polyethylene pipe should have plastic centralizing discs that are slid on the pipe at a distance of 10 feet apart. The centralizing discs do 2 jobs, the first being to keep the pump string centered in the well to prevent rubbing of the pipe against the welk casing and the second job is to protect to pump wire from rubbing and shorting out the pump.

If your deep well submersible has a steel drop pipe that is a different animal that uses 20 foot galvanized or black iron pipe joints and pipe nipples.

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