A lot of well Driller痴 think of poly as amateur stuff. It痴 unheard of here for wells. We use sch 80 pvc threaded pipe in 20 joints. I have installed many many pumps on steel and pvc. You trust your driller today install the well why not trust him to install the pump. I don稚 use galvanized pipe anymore but in the right application it can last many years and is very strong should the pump need to be pulled. You can put a lot of force on galv pipe, not so much on poly.
I dont trust my well driller, in the process of drilling the first hole they bent the casing. They bent it so badly that the 4 inch drill bit they were using wouldnt pass thru it, they tried driving the casing further than the hole they were boring ( Im assuming cause they just didnt give a **** and thought it would be fine and had got away with it a hundred times prior ) They admitted to me that they often drove the casing without even drilling the hole.....just pounded it into the sand.
They then tried to force the bit thru, they were bringing metal shavings up with the slurry bigtime, they called their boss, he told them too push thru.....one of the drillers suddenly got a conscience and said enough was enough and if they continued this they would drill right thru the side of the casing, said they would come back tomm with a flexible bit.
They lied, no flexible bit, they came back with a much shorter bit and much shorter section of drill rod, they said they had no flexible bit ( so many lies they lose track of whats being said ) they told me that if this didnt work they would have to go with a 3 inch liner, that means they would start using a 3 inch bit and hopefully get that thru the kink and start drilling......finish with a 3 inch casing.
I told them no way, I was paying for a 4 inch well and thats what I wanted.
They told me I had a 4 inch well.....look VERN a 4 inch pipe IS sticking out of the ground and if I continued to decline the liner Id be on the hook for 128 feet of casing already in the ground. If I didnt believe it look at my contract.
Sure enough my contract states that if a well has to be abandoned basically for almost any reason Id be on the hook.
I told them Id fight it with my CC company.
They said lets just see what happens, I said OK.
They drilled down and long story short they ended up snapping off this bit and 30 feet of drill rod ( they continued to try and force it )
They couldnt get that drill rod out, its still down there.
They moved rig over 5 feet and drilled the hole properly and now I have 4 inch casing all the way to limestone.
Not to sound negative but NO ONE can be trusted to do whats best for me. I am trying to figure out whats best for me in the long run.
Maybe its true that Marion County only allows galv pipe, I DO understand your comment about well drillers seeing poly as amateur stuff, there are alot of things in my line of work that are done now that we see as amateurish ( but in fact really is a better way sometimes )
Not sure what Im gonna do at this point. I need to address your comment about making sure the pump is open flow. All I know at this point is that it is a schaefer 1.5 HP or equivalent.
They put or equivalent on everything within the contract so that they dont have to be accountable to anything on the contract. They have better lawyers than I do.
Just trying to get whats best
