Insulated Well House

[RadarTech]

David,
I am 30 min south of Asheville near the state line..
I feel like I am the foot hill!!!
the Saluda grade near us is rather steep!


Keep us informed about your progress...

thanks,Jim

 

[westbrooklawn]

David -

Thanks for the vote of confidence... I don't feel so bad about my trashcan now. I also feel a little better about the depth of my well also... I am at 605', 4 gal/min. Through the whole house build process, the day they drilled the well was the most stressful... 425' and .5gal/min... I told them to keep going... 600' was where they finally hit sufficient water. It ended up with 39' static and 4 gal/min. With the pump hung at 400' this gives me a good reservoir. I still would have liked about 15gal/min at 250', but it just was not to be.

 

[RadarTech]

Westbrook,
you have made me feel really good--
465 and 8.5 GPM..
hit it at 430 and then went 35 more feet for good measure..

Static level is around 290..
pump is hung at 430.

Now this is my first well...
So I wonder what is the min for a decent well? good then average?

Or should I start a new thread?

Later,
J

 

[LBrown59]

David -

. I still would have liked about 15gal/min at 250', but it just was not to be.

That would be asking a lot around here as 5 Gal A min is considered a good producing well.

Westbrook,
Now this is my first well...
So I wonder what is the min for a decent well? good then average?
J

My first well that I drilled on this place in 1966 put out 5 gal a min and was considered a good producing well.
Later in 1971 drilled a second well on the other side of the property and got 1 gallon a minute out of it.

I tore down both well houses 1N 1995 and dismantled the pumps and tanks .

Cant say that I miss all the maintenance and other nuisances that go with owning and operating a water well. I especially don't miss running out of water during a power failure,
L . Brown 59 .

 

[jinman]

Thats afine looking well house but in my area people would think I put in an outhouse.

You aren't the first (nor surely the last) to notice how my wellhouse resembles an outhouse. The difference is that the closer you get, you know it's not an outhouse because it is missing that "sweet" aroma.

I actually like your wellhouse very much. It's small and unobtrusive. If you can get to the wellhead for service, then that is about ideal. I'm sorry you had to go so deep for water. Our Trinity Sands Aquifer is down at 350 to 450 feet around here. There's another source of water around 250' deep, but it's hard as nails and gums up plumbing. Unfortunately, one of my neighbors let the driller stop at that depth. They now have to use every softener, filter, and treatment you can imagine. I'm lucky that my water is nearly perfect just as it comes out of the ground.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Jim,

My water has a little sulfur in it. Which is another reason for the pump/well house. I will be adding a mist sprayer to the top of the well. This will help agitate the water and should romove the sulfur. I will hook one end to the faucet and the other end will go into the well head producing a fine mist. Since the hose will be exposed I needed the well house to prevent freezing. I don't know how a fine mist will get rid of sulfur but I have talked with several people who had the same problem and it worked for them.

May also end up puting a water softener on sice my wife has noticed some of her aluminum pans turning darker out of the dish washer. I need to have the water tested for minerals.

 

[flusher]

I'm in the middle of building a well house right now also. At this point it is covered with an upside down trash can with a some bricks on top (advice of inspector to pass final inspection... albeit not much freeze protection). My question may be a little off topic, but I would like to install a 120 volt connection in the well house to provide for heat tape or a light bulb for heating. There is currently 230v in a junction box at the top of well which provides for the submersible pump... is there any reason I can't pull off one hot leg and the nuetral (and of course ground) to get 115v for what I want? Any electrical guys who could provide some advice? Thanks.

Don't see why not. I have a 115v duplex weatherproof receptacle wired into the 230V service to my well pump. Real handy for running power to nearby jobsites (sheds, etc).

No problem with the building code in my county. Don't thnk your county bldg dept would have any problem with that, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

 

[oliver28472]

When we lived in southeastern NC I had to have a new well drilled. Poured a slab and had concrete block walls built around it. The mason mortared in some anchor bolts in the corners and put 2x8s flat on top. Then I had a sheet metal man make the top out of galvanized sheet metal. It was a gable type roof that could be screwed into the edges of the 2x8's and was light enough that one person could easily remove the screws, lift up one end, slide it back a couple feet, then walk around to the other end and pull it off. I had the electrician put a plug and a light fixture inside with a weatherproof switch outside. Would like to duplicate that where we live now. Just have a green fiberglass cover sitting on the ground and what is left of an old slab.

 

[LBrown59]

Don't see why not. I have a 115v duplex weatherproof receptacle wired into the 230V service to my well pump. Real handy for running power to nearby jobsites (sheds, etc).

No problem with the building code in my county. Don't thnk your county bldg dept would have any problem with that, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

The thing I like about Washington County where I live is they don't have any codes.
No state code either.
I like freedome.

 

[mffarmall]

Like the well house. We now have our own system that is in the basement. We really have no problems with it. But I do have a pump ready to go just incase.