Water pump...if everyone can keep their cool!
Since my original post got closed down:(, I think I have come up with game plan! I will keep the existing 4048 SureFlo, add a couple feet of 1/2 flexible high pressure hose on the downstream side of ...
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SoundGuy wrote:crcr wrote:
I added a braided vinyl loop on the output side of the water pump. See pic below. The tubing came in a 10' pack at HD, so I just used the whole 10'. It quieted the pump down by many magnitudes. You can still hear it, but I didn't want it to go silent, so that I would know if the fresh water tank ran dry, etc. It used to wake myself or the DW up when either of us flushed the toilet during the night, but it's so quiet now that I doubt that will be a problem anymore.
Proof is in the pudding - congrats for not listening to the naysayers who claim this is an over-the-top solution to a common problem for all of us - pump noise. As you've proven yourself, adding a coiled length of soft hose to the pump output does work, or as you said yourself - "quieted the pump down by many magnitudes". I wouldn't have expected anything else. ;)
You're right, "Proof is in the pudding..." my short 40" two loops also quieted our pump down by "many magnitudes" where it can only be heard running if there's no background noise such as the TV or music. In the bedroom, it's even harder to hear it.
