quieter water pump
Anyone know of a water pump that is fairly quiet? I feel like mine can be heard for miles when I use it.
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Ours sounded like a wood pecker going off- quite loud even outside. Loud enough I was self conscious of it in the wee hours.
That and constant running with the slightest trickle of water.
Loud, constant and annoying. If someone knocked I didn't hear em.
I reworked a couple of times trying to isolate better, short of buying a pump, but it was installing the accumulator that really made it quiet. That and when I plumbed used flex lines. The accumulator made a world of difference in how long and often the pump went off, likely absorbing some noise but I assume it was the flex lines, on inlet and outlet side of pump that really stopped the noise transmission thru the hard Pex lines.
As our pump is 16 years old likely should replace now or at least carry spare-better pump retro fitted imagine should be whisper quiet. We only turn on pump when water used so wouldn't mind not hearing it all.
My point is though assume better pump would be a lot quieter, I dont think just swapping pump would have had near the results of changing to flex lines, at least in our camper. If your after quiet...
Check the pump, make sure its isolated, not touching anything. Some have used foam pipe wrap on the lines and had some success to absorb noise but Id change to flex lines-add accumulator then look at pump.
That and constant running with the slightest trickle of water.
Loud, constant and annoying. If someone knocked I didn't hear em.
I reworked a couple of times trying to isolate better, short of buying a pump, but it was installing the accumulator that really made it quiet. That and when I plumbed used flex lines. The accumulator made a world of difference in how long and often the pump went off, likely absorbing some noise but I assume it was the flex lines, on inlet and outlet side of pump that really stopped the noise transmission thru the hard Pex lines.
As our pump is 16 years old likely should replace now or at least carry spare-better pump retro fitted imagine should be whisper quiet. We only turn on pump when water used so wouldn't mind not hearing it all.
My point is though assume better pump would be a lot quieter, I dont think just swapping pump would have had near the results of changing to flex lines, at least in our camper. If your after quiet...
Check the pump, make sure its isolated, not touching anything. Some have used foam pipe wrap on the lines and had some success to absorb noise but Id change to flex lines-add accumulator then look at pump.
