Nah…they have pretty good rental equipment in my area. The only issue we ran into was the trench caving in slightly. That may or may not have played a factor. But I didn’t a house 2 years ago with the same method and it worked well.

I installed it..and yes I am here now asking for resolution, I work with family members who know what they are doing and have proper equipment. Something went screwey though!😂

Go look at your water meter, if there is a leak you will see the meter move..

No conduit needed per code. Due to northern climates, we are well below the frost line

We are still getting water through the line, but when the valve is turned off at the barn the pressure falls when it should remain. I’m starting to think the ground shifted and put pressure on a splice

Yes. It will find the shortest path up. This method worked for a friend of mine last winter. In canada

Lol! Not Canada but not too far from there. Like I said previously, the water line is 6 feet down and below our electrical line. You think that leaked air would still make it to the surface and past the frost line?

Here in Metro Detroit it’s all 5’6. Some places further north are 6’ and 6’6.

Anything you want to be able to replace or add to. Having innerduct makes it really easy to do that.

From Northern MN down to Nebraska the vast majority of water lines I've worked around have been more than 5' deep.

Code is probably 5' minimum but it's normal to be below that, often well below that.

Probe rods have a ball shaped end.

Good ones do, at least.

Disconnect the water and hook air up to it. You'll hear it, or if you're in Canada, you'll have a hole where there's no snow. Dig there.

Depends. If I hired someone to do work and that work failed I might not trust them to fix it. Depends how it failed and why.

Literally.

Lmao

Well they probably do or at least funds to access one but just don’t use them for individual residential purposes

Yeah just another classic example of someone posting to diy and being told to r/callaprofessional not sure why people even bother commenting if they aren’t willing to actually help.

What material? If it's that black sprinkler tubing it's flat as a pancake under all that backfill.

PEX hard to say, with no rocks in the trench it could make it but might not.

Yea, agreed it's maybe a blockage. The line would have to have completely separated to have lost pressure. You wouldn't notice a pressure drop from anything other than a massive leak.

Here's a thought. Did you snake the line in the bottom of the trench or pull it tight and straight?

If you didn't leave slack in the water line one of your splices may have pulled apart. Things move when buried as things settle.and also once pressure is applied.

Diaphragm, but yes. Upvoted as the correct answer.

Probably on the bottom of the pump

Yes, it would be in/near the housing by the red arrow and is probably a diaphragm switch

You are correct. There's a diagram inside that space that presses a switch when the water gets high enough to provide adequate pressure.

I could be wrong in this case cause I cant see down the hole but there might be a float valve way down towards the bottom of the cavity.