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pressure booster water tank?

TonyC - 9-19-2012 at 07:39 AM

does anyone know where in san quitnin, or ensenada i can buy a pressure water tank, or where i can repair the one i have? the pumps good. even a used tank. picture of what mine looks like. i was told about this yesterday, i'm heading down to socorro this friday with pops.

Bajajorge - 9-19-2012 at 07:56 AM

I got my pressure tank at Home Depot. If there's one in Ensenada they might have one, or can order you one.

J.P. - 9-19-2012 at 08:03 AM

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Originally posted by Bajajorge
I got my pressure tank at Home Depot. If there's one in Ensenada they might have one, or can order you one.




They have them in just about any hardware in Ensenada I found one at a Pacifico hardware.

TonyC - 9-19-2012 at 08:48 AM

thank you. i'll check home depot ensenada.

SteveD - 9-19-2012 at 11:59 AM

The pressure tanks are also called bladder tanks for the rubber bladder inside. Don't buy a used one because the bladder degrades first and you can't buy just a replacement bladder these days. You know the bladder is going bad from the sulfur smell you get in the water.

Just about all hardware stores carry them. Home Depot carries a brand I'm not familier with plus it costs abouit twice as much as the Flotec ones we usually see.

jcwoos - 9-19-2012 at 07:39 PM

I am not sure the sulfur smell has anything to do with the condition of the bladder. I installed a pressure tank and pump in the house we built in Tijuana but we almost always had water service so hardly ever used it. Whenever we did, we always had the sulfur smell until I ran water through the pressure tank for several minutes and then it would go away. This happened within months of installing the tank in 1994 and as far as I know it is still working. Putting some Clorox in the cistern and running the pump a few minutes every month helped.

Pescador - 9-19-2012 at 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by SteveD
The pressure tanks are also called bladder tanks for the rubber bladder inside. Don't buy a used one because the bladder degrades first and you can't buy just a replacement bladder these days. You know the bladder is going bad from the sulfur smell you get in the water.

Just about all hardware stores carry them. Home Depot carries a brand I'm not familier with plus it costs abouit twice as much as the Flotec ones we usually see.


I had no problem ordering a bladder for my tank in Santa Rosalia and they are readily available in the US.