How to Avoid Well Pump Repairs

Maybe you enjoy paying out lots of money to plumbers and water systems engineers for things like well pump repairs. If so, feel free to carry on enjoying yourself – there’s no need to read on! You’ll certainly be very popular with your local plumbers. However, if you don’t, you might want to spend just a few minutes reading the tips below:

• Get your installation regularly checked and serviced. This is an area people often economize on (i.e. they don’t bother). Yes, it does cost a few dollars but it just might help you avoid much bigger well pump repairs and replacement costs downstream.
• Read your maintenance and user guide manuals. All too often these contain very useful or even essential routine maintenance tips, but equally often, they are never read and simply thrown into a drawer to gather dust.
• Be sure you understand the warranties associated with your purchase of a pumping solution at the time you buy it. That applies equally to both new and used systems. Although modern, quality-produced systems are typically very robust and reliable (assuming you selected one such to begin with rather than the cheapest you could find) they can still throw up the odd problem. If so, you’ll want your supplier and installer to respond quickly and for nothing – rather than start to engage in a legal, semantic and philosophical debate with you about shortcomings in your warranties.
• On a related point, spend extra for quality solutions. Yes, there is some phenomenally cheap equipment out there, but what do you know about who made them, where, and to what quality standards? To some extent, you can gauge that from the length and depth of the warranty provided with new systems because if they’re short or evasive, well, it suggests the supplier doesn’t have confidence in their own product. Note – cheap pumps often fail about one minute after their warranty expires.
• Whatever the warranty says, make sure your local plumber or installer offers their own guarantees. It won’t be much consolation to you if your pump has packed in while under warranty but your installing plumber informs you they can’t do anything because the manufacturer several thousand miles away has just gone bust.
• Check reviews of the equipment, the manufacturer and the guys installing it for you – if they’re not one and the same. Don’t just look at the reviews on their own site because they’re not likely to publish lots of customer criticism about their services. Look around instead for unbiased consumer sites.
• Be cautious about DIY installations unless you’re an expert. Remember there may be code and local regulation issues to contend with – something you’ll struggle to achieve if you don’t even know they exist. In addition, be aware that you won’t want to be caught in a three-way squabble between the pump supplier and plumber because you’ve been dabbling yourself and now everybody is saying your warranty’s not valid any more.

When upgrading your system or commissioning well pump repairs, some of the above tips might just help you to avoid trauma and also save money.

Sarah Saadoun works for HMS Plumbing, a family-owned business in Manassas, Northern Virginia. If you need well pump repairs, Herve and his dedicated employees at HMS are proud to be serving the plumbing needs of Northern Virginia residents and businesses. For reliable Fairfax plumbers HMS Plumbing is your first choice.

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