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[Nomadicus]

Thank you for answering that as I just saw Sally's question and went . All I know is that's what it's called, and if/when we need a new well, I forget what they call that one but it's not a sandpoint.

Is you pump down in the well or on top of the ground in a pump house? You may being told about a gravel packed well for a new one. Those are the best money can buy and last for ever.

 

[Debbie292d]

Is you pump down in the well or on top of the ground in a pump house? You may being told about a gravel packed well for a new one. Those are the best money can buy and last for ever.

It's way down there but not sure it's to the bottom which I think they said was 40'.

Hubby could fix/replace it himself as he's an electrician, but not a well-driller and would have no means to get to it.

 

[pertnear09]

We've got it good here having a well, although had to change the pump last year to the tune of seve a ral hundred. Someday we'll have to redrill a new one, but probably not for 5 years or so.

We bought a shallow well pump so now pump water in the summer for our garden and orchard from the creek that's down the hill behind our place. That'll help save the house well some wear and tear as we're trying to make it last longer. That'll be a minimum of 10K to drill a new well.

I have a second well on my place that was drilled 33 years ago has never been pumped. I have it plumbed and wired into the other well that I use with a shutoff valve. I just need to sink a pump and build a house around it

 

[pertnear09]

I don't have a clue how my post got ember in your quote.

 

[Nomadicus]

It's way down there but not sure it's to the bottom which I think they said was 40'.

Hubby could fix/replace it himself as he's an electrician, but not a well-driller and would have no means to get to it.

It takes a truck that has a hoist on it to lift the casing and pump out. Then the pump can be taken off and a new on put on. No new well required if the water table is still there. The actual well can be several hundred feed deep and the water table maybe only 30 feet deep and the pump set at 40-60 feet deep. As long as the draw down level doesn't go lower than the depth the pump is at all is well. Pun not intended.

There are pump services that take care of pumps that don't drill wells. Some well drillers do both. In a previous life I replaced a lot of shallow well pumps for landscape irrigation water where the water was very plentiful on a barrier island. I helped my dad put down a lot of shallow wells that were often used for rural home water systems. Those day as long gone. Strip mining has lowered the water table to below shallow well depth in the area where I grew up.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hi.

Going to a Super Bowl party at the clubhouse tomorrow.

Also I requested a name change but it’s a surprise LOL

 

[Nomadicus]

I failed at trying to nap twice today. I sure do hope that is not a sign of things to come.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I failed at trying to nap twice today. I sure do hope that is not a sign of things to come.

 

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks

 

[Sally PB]

Not sure what that filter is so we must not have one. Our water is just tasteless. We have soft water in the bathroom for the laundry, parrots, and chick's water, but it's hard water everywhere else. It's just on the lower end of hard water.

Our RO (reverse osmosis) filter is a 3 stage filter installed under the kitchen sink, with a little faucet to the side just for that. We have a water softerner; though our water isn't particularly hard, it does have a lot of iron in it. So we also have an iron filter.

RO is the only method, other than distillation, that will remove the salt from the softener. (If that's incorrect, someone please say so.) A lot of monkeying about to get useable water out of our well, but ya gotta have water.