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Originally Posted by JohnD10
Would like to know your thought pattern for this.
If the check valve is leaking and the fresh water tank is filling up through the city water connection and water pump, then NOT hooking up to city water and using the fresh water tank until a new check valve is installed would be the more prudent thing to do I would think.
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I’d have to disagree. If your check valve is leaking, running the pump is going to cause needless cycling of the pump.
The pump works by pressuring the lines, and when the pressure sensor detects the correct pressure, shuts off the pump. If the check valve doesn’t work, then that pressure is going to let the lines leak back into the fresh tank, which will drop the pressure enough that the pump will cycle on again to re-pressure the lines, and continue in a needless cycle like that.
If you’re faced with a leaking check valve that won’t reseat, and you can’t get it fixed, if you have independent valves on your winterization kit (I.e. separate valve for fresh tank and antifreeze line), I’d just close both the fresh tank valve AND the antifreeze valve, so the water that leaks past the pump doesn’t have anywhere to go. This will maintain pressure in the lines.
Of course, the preferred fix is to just fix the check valve.