Well I never would have mentioned it except you said the well had died. When that happened to me years ago I had to flush or backflush every thing including the water heater and every outlet in the place except the toilet. Went I flushed that in the morning it showed me what I was dealing with. It shot all morning and half of the afternoon. ~gdhqueen13 said:gd you must have had the answer, I fixed it by accident this afternoon. It must have been dirt or some sort of buildup. I had a funky bucket setup rigged with 3 buckets that should have each taken the overflow from the other (I am almost disappointed I didn't get to see this in action! I was curious to know how many gallons it was leaking from the time I leave in the evening at 5 and the time I return in the morning at 8! LOL). But then I decided to try to connect the short bit of hose that had the sprayer nozzle stuck on it to see if the nozzle would cap the flow off since I didn't have anything to cap the spigot directly. I was messing with it and realized it would have taken quite a while (longer than I wanted to stand there and wait!) to fill the hose to enough pressure to make it leak if it was going to. So I turned the pump on, and at first didn't get enough pressure, but then finally turned the handle all the way up, and discovered that the sprayer was going to leak anyway, so there was no point in leaving it on. So I turned the water off, released the pressure in the hose and then unhooked the hose, and voila, no leak!
We'll see if it is still that way tomorrow morning when I get there...
Who knows how long the thing has been dripping... and all it took was turning it on and off again!
Leaky Water Spigot??
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