The Old Folks Home

[ShrekDawg]

 

[Nomadicus]

Good Morning Old Folks

 

[sourland]

Good morning.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Ack! Superbowl day. If we weren't having company, I could hide in the studio or the barn.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am not watching football here just taking the day easy.
I did rebuild the sourdough.

 

[Nomadicus]

I am not watching football here just taking the day easy.
I did rebuild the sourdough.

I agree with you. I'd rather watch paint dry than a football game now.

 

[Nomadicus]

Goodnight Old Folks

 

[LaurenRitz]

Good morning! I keep telling the sun it's time to get up, but it stays stubbornly in bed.

 

[Nomadicus]

Good Morning Old Folks. Heavy dark clouds and steady rain. We are not supposed to see the sun until tomorrow.

 

[bruceha2000]

I'm assuming someone won the SB but I don't care

Our well is original to the house, so 40+ years old. We've replaced the pump twice. I was told that their life expectancy is roughly 15 years, and the first replacement lasted closer to 20. We're about 7-8 years into the second one.

Replaced the 49 year old pump (down about 90' in a 120' well) last year; yes installed in 1974!

I thought maybe the foot valve had failed but in fact it was the anti-siphon valve next to the old galvanized pressure tank in the basement (and thus there isn't even a foot valve to fail). But they were there with the equipment and I wanted to get rid of the old tank since it waterlocks every year and who knows how much longer the pump would last.

The old pump still looked pretty good other than some rust gunk on the screens. The guys said pump life is related to the quality of the well water. Not sure quite what that means but either our water is easy on pumps or "they don't make them like they used to" fits!

Our water is moderately hard. I would put in a softener but the guys who did the plumbing when half the house was rebuilt in 2013 and put in the on demand water heater said the type of salts in water softener would damage it. Who knows if that is right, these guys made several mistakes. mostly related to the new propane air furnace. Cost me some recently to actually fix what they screwed up when a different company installed a heat pump on the furnace and figured out several things that caused the furnace to not run properly. Happy to pay it!!!

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.

40' is pretty shallow. If the pump isn't even that deep and if it has plastic tubing instead of galvanized pipe it could be pulled without special equipment.

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 need to pull the casing to replace the pump. In fact that would be counterproductive. They have a truck which can pull the pump. In my case the pipe was galvanized so they had to pull it up a section at a time with the special clamp "thing". It was replaced with plastic pipe.