Well, Well, Well...

A couple of days ago the waterpump for the well decided to start turning on every hour and run for a few minutes, then it slowly started to get more often. Shutting the water off after the pump and shutting down the pump allowed me to watch the pressure in the line drop. We just replaced the foot-valve last year (actually May 2014) Seemed like it was only last year. 

Having the back and knees I have, lifting the concrete Well cover and crawling down in the pit is not something I aspired to, so I called the boys from Tomaszek Plumbing. 

Finding water at the elbows indicated the foot-valve was probably alright, so was it the hoses or fittings between the house and the well-top or the well-top to the valve. A pressure test found the pipes to the house were fine, this is good as it would have required getting a backhoe and breaking the wallet. Pulling the hoses out of the pit revealed a pin hole in one of the hoses. 

So time to replace both old hoses.

It may have been one of the smallest parts on the system that caused the issue. The pressure switch feed fitting was plugged. This had the pump running at a higher than normal pressure before shutting off, instead of 60lbs it was running to almost 100lbs.