8N Ren
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The wife and I got a little sick and tired of running out of water, 5 times since we moved in at the end of December 2011. Our old well is 27ft deep with a concrete casing at the bottom and a 15ft long 30 inch diameter culvert pipe stuck in the middle of the casing that travels up to the surface. That thing takes a longtime to replenish so it was time to do something about this, heaven forbid you'd want to take a shower, do a load of laundry and then flush the toilet lol. Also I had extended the water intake line as close to the bottom of the well as I could. This worked for awhile but in the end we had a local company come out and drill.
This new one is 137ft deep, casing is at 116ft, just need to get it hooked up to the house. My plan is to remove the submersible pump from the old and put it in the new. We won't seal off the old well but we plan on getting a hand pump and I'll whip up a better lid as the one that's on there is concrete and about 7 inches thick. The old guy that owned the land was paranoid about someone falling in, sheesh it takes 2 men and a small boy to remove the friggin thing, or a buddy with a loader. Anyways here's some pics of the expensive day.
This new one is 137ft deep, casing is at 116ft, just need to get it hooked up to the house. My plan is to remove the submersible pump from the old and put it in the new. We won't seal off the old well but we plan on getting a hand pump and I'll whip up a better lid as the one that's on there is concrete and about 7 inches thick. The old guy that owned the land was paranoid about someone falling in, sheesh it takes 2 men and a small boy to remove the friggin thing, or a buddy with a loader. Anyways here's some pics of the expensive day.