Tankless & constant pressure Well water pump system OR standard pump & pressure tank system?

Question

I have a new residential water well and a choice of installing a standard well pump and tank at my house or a water pump system that provides constant controllable water pressure without a storage tank. The price difference is $1000. Standard pump is cheaper.

Which should I choose and why?

Answer 1

Look at it from a maintenance stand point. If anything goes wrong with your tankless unit, no water. If your pump goes down, you still have water in your storage tank which can be used by applying air pressure from a portable compressor.

However, tankless units are nice and neat, if only the well water was. Scaling, possible plugging due to contaminates, rocks brought up by the pump. Also, tankless has no surge capacity.

Basically, pump and store is rugged, cheap and easily repaired. Tankless is neat, convenient and limited.