Plumbing question

[ROUSTABOUT]

Its not a pressure problem. You have a flow problem.

 

[Rockbadchild]

If your filter is restricting your flow, then move your filters before the pressure tank.

 

[MossRoad]

I hate to ask, but is all packaging removed from the filter housing and filter media? Stranger things have happened. (I'll admit to it).

 

[jjeff]

Get a sand filter I did when I started having sand problems clogging my Big Blue filter at my cabin eliminated the flow and filter problems for me anyway. I Installed before my filter and pressure tank.

 

[Jstpssng]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. The best thing I could have done would have been to pull the filter and try it without, before posting.
This has been a summer place which I am finally winterizing, and I haven't had a chance to do anything. The filter housing is clear and I am surprised that the 30 micron filter seems to be clean.

 

[LittleBill21]

you have something going on, I am on a well have 2 filters and a water softener, my last filter is 1 micron, yes 1 micron, and I get 7 gallons a minute through the system at a 55 turn off psi.

 

[jjeff]

I hate to ask, but is all packaging removed from the filter housing and filter media? Stranger things have happened. (I'll admit to it).

Check the psi of air in your accumulator/pressure tank also.

 

[jjeff]

Thanks for all of the suggestions. The best thing I could have done would have been to pull the filter and try it without, before posting.
This has been a summer place which I am finally winterizing, and I haven't had a chance to do anything. The filter housing is clear and I am surprised that the 30 micron filter seems to be clean.

I hope you post what you figure out/fix, I enjoy reading/learning about problems and subsequent fixes like this.

 

[Jstpssng]

I hope you post what you figure out/fix, I enjoy reading/learning about problems and subsequent fixes like this.

It will be a couple of weeks. Winter is finally here (I hope) and I wasn't quite ready for it.

The other thing I am going to throw out though, is my new plumbing. 3/4 inch pex into a manifold with (3) 1/2 inch lines coming off it... one to the kitchen, one to the washer/flush, the third to my shower. I could be restricting it too much but don't think so.

 

[plowhog]

(3) 1/2 inch lines coming off it... one to the kitchen, one to the washer/flush, the third to my shower.

I don't know how long your distances are, but in my opinion those sizes are extremely small. An old plumbing joke is if you really dislike someone, put them at the end of a 1/2 inch water supply.

A realize a number of modern plumbing fixtures (i.e. showerhead) will only accept a 1/2 in connection. But that's only one of the issues-- friction loss of the water traveling through pipe can become a very big deal, especially if it is a long run or if you have flow or pressure limits to begin with.

Hope it all works out-- as others have said, please keep us updated!