We have quite a powerful pump at the level of the house as pumps are generally designed to push water out of the water outlet rather than pull water up through the water inlet which is what this one is having to do (before pushing it along to the house).
We would like one day to replace it with a submerged pump in the water tank. But while this one keeps struggling on, it seems profligate to spend money on a new one. Pumps are expensive by the time they have dry run protection, a pressure switch to give you sensible pressure in the house, a water cylinder to protect the pump from constantly running, and have the power to get the water up to the top field.
We have been having issues with air getting in to it somehow, which cases a number of problems. Of course not having water when this happens is a not good, but we also worry about the pump overheating, and it lives below the hay!
We have learnt a lot about pumps while struggling with this one and its very rusty predecessor. Not one of the ambitions we had when moving to France!
This is the pressure switch which goes a bit wonky with symptoms including not turning the pump on, not turning the pump off and making an alarming pffft noise. Initially we thought it was a problem with the switch itself, but now we suspect that air gets in to the system and affects its function, which is mechanical. It didn't like being WD40ed that much and the other lubricant even less - it was only a minor fire that occurred!!
There used to be a cover instead of tape, but it got melted in a dry running incident.
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