Does it come on as soon as you turn a tap?

em720: Trig - no, it isn’t automatic, there’s quite a delay.

Can you take a picture of the water pump? It might need the pressure tank bled to release the build up of air if it is of that type. But you can get a new JET pumps of trademe from $200. PM and I can recommend one. 2 years and still going strong.

I used to live in the country, we had amazing pressure from a two pump bore system.

The shower however was hopeless, I pulled apart the the shower mixer and there were two filters like on a washing machine water inlet.

I removed the gunge and once this was done the shower was almost as good as a water blaster.

As for the pump, if it has an air chamber you might need to drain it and recompress the chamber, a car tyre foot pump or 12v compressor is sufficient.

John

Does your property have anywhere with enough elevation for a header tank? Having a pump going on and off all the time would drive me nuts (going into our local village at nights and hearing them droning away in all directions grates on my nerves). We have a header with 10 or so outlets feeding different areas so they have independent pressure, topped up during the day from a couple of 20,000l and a 30,000l tank well away from the house.

rhy7s:

 

Does your property have anywhere with enough elevation for a header tank? Having a pump going on and off all the time would drive me nuts (going into our local village at nights and hearing them droning away in all directions grates on my nerves). We have a header with 10 or so outlets feeding different areas so they have independent pressure, topped up during the day from a couple of 20,000l and a 30,000l tank well away from the house.

 

Can't you also use a pressure tank to reduce the number of on and off cycles, with small amounts of water use?

rhy7s:

Does your property have anywhere with enough elevation for a header tank? Having a pump going on and off all the time would drive me nuts (going into our local village at nights and hearing them droning away in all directions grates on my nerves). We have a header with 10 or so outlets feeding different areas so they have independent pressure, topped up during the day from a couple of 20,000l and a 30,000l tank well away from the house.

SATTV:

I used to live in the country, we had amazing pressure from a two pump bore system.

The shower however was hopeless, I pulled apart the the shower mixer and there were two filters like on a washing machine water inlet.

I removed the gunge and once this was done the shower was almost as good as a water blaster.

 

As for the pump, if it has an air chamber you might need to drain it and recompress the chamber, a car tyre foot pump or 12v compressor is sufficient.

 

John

Has the pump got a pressure tank on it? if so that could be waterlogged or the bladder could have perished.

An idea would be to put a 20" or a 10" 5-micron filter to filter out all the sediment that the pump would then pump into the house.

We had a 20" 5-micron filter for filtering out all the sediment and replaced that every year and never had a problem.

@em720: Photo of the pump

no photo there

Hmm am struggling to upload a photo! I just get a white page saying "Uploading.....No files uploaded"

I will describe it! Its a GPS brand pump, Modle GPS-8V, Tank Volume 8 Litres, Connection Size: 1' Male BSP, Max pressure 10 bar, Date 2012.