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Originally Posted by old guy
Was reading in bed late last night and the wife said “ do you hear that “ got up and went down stairs and there’s this loud hissing sound, went in to the laundry room and it’s really loud  the well pressure tank for the well let loose  water pouring out of the bottom @ about 5-6 gal pre min. Fortunately the tank is located close to the sump so there wasn’t any water damage.
The only real damage was to the top of my head as I smashed it open on the heating duct 
Waiting on my buddy to show up and give me a hand….. until then no water.
Forgot to mention everything is located under the house in a crawl space that’s only 4’ high |
That sucks pretty hard! Good luck resolving it!
I had something similar, the morning of my wedding. I don't recall now exactly what the plumber did - installed a pressure relief valve or something on our well tank, and put it in the wrong way. So it basically started just spraying water with high pressure into my back room. Megan is messaging me, stuff about the wedding, and I'm trying to figure out how the hell to 1) stop the water, 2) clean up the water. Had no plumbing tools at the time. Got lucky, found out if I bypassed our filtration system, it wouldn't route to that pressure relief valve, so that bought me time to get married, have my honeymoon, and THEN deal with the problem correctly.