Do-it-yourself pumping station installation

Supplying suburban farms with irrigation and drinking water has traditionally been considered one of the most important tasks in creating a complete life support system for them. In preparing the water supply system at home, not only the average daily water requirement of your farm, but also the maximum developed pressure should be taken into account. With a low water pressure in the water supply system, it becomes necessary to use special pumping equipment, which allows to raise the pressure to the required level.

That is why the installation of a pumping station with your own hands is a very important task, the successful solution of which will allow you to establish an uninterrupted water supply in your farm.

The list of tasks that can be solved with the help of household pumping stations includes, as a rule, the following items:

• clean drinking water supply;
• providing watering operations;
• hot water and heating;
• purely domestic needs.

That is why, even at the design stage of the water supply system, it is necessary to determine the purpose for which the pumping station will be used and, based on this, calculate its design capacity.

Factors affecting station selection

The choice of this or that type of equipment depends in most cases on the following factors:

• type of water supply;
• operating modes of pumping equipment;
• station location;
• consumption volumes.

First of all, the operating parameters of any pumping station depend on the water source you use. At the same time the choice of options is not so great (well, well or centralized water supply). As for the mode of its operation, then there are two options: manual or automatic control of the equipment.

In addition, when ordering a particular station model, one should proceed from the required capacity of the unit, ensuring the transfer of a given volume of water for a certain period of time. (It was established that the average daily consumption of water consumed in his own country house is about 200 - 250 liters per hour).

Your equipment can be placed either in a separate caisson or in a special room (heated basement). The second of these options looks more preferable, but when using it, reliable protection of equipment against emergency rise of groundwater should be provided. To fulfill this condition, it is quite sufficient to locate the pump station at a certain distance from the floor (on a special stand, for example).

Before inserting the pumping station into the existing pipeline, you should prepare the wiring diagram of the connected equipment, which should indicate the locations of the main components of the system (storage tank, pump, filter, etc.).

The procedure for installation and connection

The order of work on connecting the pumping station to the supply system of the country economy will be considered on the example of centralized water supply. It is assumed that the station, designed for consumption of about 200 liters per hour, will be installed in the basement. The sequence of operations performed in this way looks like this:

• first of all, part of the water supply system is dismantled at the place where the pumping station is to be installed;
• after that the inlet pipe is attached to the flange of the storage tank;
• A fine water filter is attached to the drive outlet;
• and, finally, the pump itself is connected to the cleaning filter, the output of which is loaded on the pipeline leading directly to the consumers.

The inclusion of a special filter element in the water supply chain is caused by the need to protect the working mechanism of the pump from impurities suspended in water, which can significantly reduce the service life of the equipment. In the simplest circuit design, such a filter is installed on the suction inlet of the pumping station.

On the other hand, it is impossible not to take into account the fact that installing a filter can lead to certain negative consequences. The fact is that when a similar element is installed in a pipeline chain, a link appears that creates some resistance to the flow of water, which leads to a decrease in its pressure in the system and, as a result, to a decrease in pressure. The only way out of this situation is to periodically clean the filter element from dirt.

In conclusion, we note that if you decide to install a pumping station yourself, you will be able to save some of the funds allocated for the installation of pumping equipment.

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