304 Stainless Steel Pitless Adapter – 2″

Description

This 2″ #304 Stainless Steel Pitless Adapter has a large gasket for more efficient sealing on the casing, and also uses a chamfered slide for easy installation.

How to install?

The term pitless adapter covers a wide range of brands and designs developed for the same purpose in the Water Well Industry. There are many different types of pitless adapters which look and install very differently but they serve the same basic purpose.

In this blog, we will be covering the two most commonly used types of pitless adapters; a slide type pitless and a spool type pitless. Our goal is to provide an understanding of exactly what they are, what the differences are and what they do. Let’s get started.

Why the Term “Pitless”?
The term “pitless” comes from the fact that pitless adapters eliminate the need for a “Well Pit”. Without the need for a pit, the adapter is appropriately named a Pit-less adapter.

Prior to the development of pitless adapters, well pits were required to allow the installer to manually assemble or dissemble the union fittings which connect the drop pipe to the supply pipe down inside the well pit, below the frost line. The old well pit system has been replaced by pitless adapters which eliminates unsanitary and dangerous well pits. Pitless adapters are sanitary and provide a fast and easy quick connection below the frost line.

Pitless Adapters in General
The general purpose of a pitless adapter is to provide a water tight, 90° connection below the frost line. They provide a quick connect assembly, creating a connection between the drop pipe (riser pipe) from the submersible pump to the well head, making a 90° change in flow direction and discharged through the service line to the water storage tank.