The warranty is through the store where it was purchased, so they’ll get it back if it doesn’t work, Kryten.

We went from “black iron” to plastic for gas, and I don’t trust it. While you don’t have to worry about pipes rusting out underground, there are too many people with trenching tools to make me happy about the change, and you can have some fool put a nail through it, which didn’t happen with the old pipe.

Under our local codes, you can’t install any kind of water heating system without a temperature control, so the local building code would have caught that one, but the local county is the gas company, so you have to comply with whatever changes they make.

Oh, yeah, they always find a way to make you pay.

Well… if it’s Chinese, it will fail *whenever* and then it’s good luck getting the warranty honored! LOL If you spend several months chasing the company, they may decide to repair or replace it, usually they will find a reason to blame you and void the warranty. 🙂

And yeah, I know all about the ways *standards* change. When we had our solar hot water service installed a few months ago we had a gas heating booster. All the gas piping from the gas meter/regulator had to be replaced because the new regulations specify a larger diameter pipe (and it’s metric, the old pipes when this place was built in the 60’s were imperial). Cost an extra $640 (incl extra labor)! Then we discovered the cost didn’t include a water temperature regulator, and one had to be added for an extra $380 (inc labor) for a manual cold/hot water mixer and extra pipes had to be run for the cold water, because in summer the water temp can get to over 80C! Seemed like a nice cost-effective idea going solar when we started! None of this was mentioned of course BEFORE the work on the new system was started. Con artist Bastards! And we are still fighting to get the promised $1,000 Gov rebate for switching to solar!

The crooks will always find a way to screw you.

I think we have a lot of crap in our water which just screws everything to hell, including the filter system, our guts, you name it.

If someone wanted to use a 1½-inch well pipe they could just use a reduction bushing, but everyone in the area uses 2-inch because that’s the size all of the local drillers install. That’s the problem of not having a local hardware store anymore, the big box stores don’t know anything about the local practices. I assume that the pump was cheaper to manufacture because the Chinese company only needed to buy one size of tap.

With any luck this one will last my lifetime, because I’m not dealing with it again.

Well, Jim, except when they cavitate, then they really suck because they don’t.

Actually, Hipparchia, my Dad eliminated all of the aluminum wiring in the area, even before people found out it caused fires. He was a firm believer in copper for pipes and wiring, especially since he used to work for a company that built a machine to “draw” copper wire. No, the problem is grounding. I don’t trust the grounding on anything in this state. I’ll probably just go ahead and install a separate grounding stake for the pump because the old pump was grounded through the piping as near as I can tell, and my Dad did not run the wire from the house to the pump house, so I have doubts that the ground wire is actually connected to a ground. While this is an irrigation system, I would hate to have someone receive a shock from a sprinkler.

Jack, I remember that from New York – no nothing until you got the pump fixed, and they broke there from power outages during freezing weather. You could keep the house warm with the wood stove, but there was nothing to protect the pump if you forgot to drain it, or the power went off overnight.

This is just irrigation, so it isn’t critical, no matter what some people, like my Mother’s lawn guy, thinks. It still has to be done. It finally stops raining every day and the pump breaks – typical.

As an industrial designer, I learned that it’s when the pumps stop sucking that they become a *real* PITA! LMAO As Bryan found out. 😉

And no… I couldn’t resist! 😉 LOL