How Does a Well Water Pressure System Actually Work?
You ever turn on your shower, enjoy that steady stream of warm water, and think... "How does this even work when we are not hooked up to the city supply?" If you are living on well water, the whole setup behind your walls is doing a lot more than most of us give it credit for. It looks complicated... pumps, tanks, switches... but once we walk through it, the pieces fall into place pretty nicely. So let us chat through it like we are sitting at the table with a cup of coffee. It All Starts Underground Deep under your yard, there is an aquifer quietly doing its thing. Your well is drilled straight into that underground water source. Then comes the star of the show... the pump. Some folks have a submersible pump down in the well, others have a jet pump sitting aboveground . Either way, that pump is what pulls water up from the earth and sends it toward your home. Without that pump? Well, nothing flows . No dishwashing, no laundry, no showers that wake you up in the morning....