WATER PRESSURE TANKS

A pressure tank is a steel tank that has a bladder inside it. The top part of the tank is filled with air under pressure, and the bottom is where the water is stored. The air pressure in the top keeps the pressure up in the tank.

This prevents the pressure pump from running every time a faucet is turned on. Pressure tanks vary in size from under one gallon up to several hundred gallons.

Sometimes people think this Pressure Tank is to store water for use in the house. That's rarely the case. Usually water is "stored" in a water tank at the back of the house or at the ceiling of the high floor.

Air in the pressure tank serves to smooth the delivery of water into the house as the pump cycles on and off, and prevents pump burnout or control switch damage which could occur if the system switches on and off too rapidly.

Water itself is not very compressible. Since a pump can usually pump faster than the flow of water out of a single faucet, as soon as the pump switched on, water pressure would build way up and the pump would immediately switch off.

Water would not flow nicely from the tap. Instead it would come in a series of squirts. Worse, you'd burn up the pump or pump switch by this rapid cycling.

The air cushion in the tank acts like a big spring which is compressed by water pushed into the tank by the pump at the same time that water is also flowing out of the pump, tank, and piping system into the house to whatever faucet has been opened.

SERVICES

Maintenance
Installation

PRODUCTS

Booster Pump
Submersible Pump
Pressure Tank