Questions tagged [well]
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Sudden Sulfur Smell from well water
We recently (about 8 months ago) had a 475 foot well dug drilled on our property. We are building a home slowly and are only just putting in a hot water heater this week, so we know it’s not an issue ...
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Is a high electric bill for a pump house caused by a well pump running constantly?
I recently had to turn on the electric for a shared well in my name. I got a bill and it's as high as what my house bill is. The well is the only thing connected to the electric in the well house. We ...
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How does rain water get into my window well
My window well has been filling with water - the base takes about 15 mins to fill before I have to empty with the manual pump - not very efficient especially at 3am. I’m in CO and we have had days of ...
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Off-Grid Well Setup
I have a well drilled and set up soon on my property where I plan to use completely off-grid (not tied to city power) solar array. Obviously I plan to optimize the power usage for everything that is ...
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Small geyser coming out of the basement floor
My house is 40 years old. I have had basement flooding issues for years. With heavy rain, water comes out of my floors. I have a sump pump that takes care of it. Despite knowing better, Ive been able ...
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Choosing the right replacement pump for well
I have a 40 foot deep 6 inch drilled well. Currently it has an old 3/4 horsepower jet pump, but it is shedding bits of rusty metal into the return pipe which are getting clogged in the foot valve. ...
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How can I find a leak in underground plumbing?
We moved into a home a couple years ago that was 1600 sq ft from a 3700 sq ft home. We were shocked that the power bill here was about 30% more than the big house but I suspected a water leak ...
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Can I operate a well pump with no pressure tank by using the breaker as a switch?
Working on my cabin. Have a drilled well about 100 feet away (maybe a bit more, uphill). 1 inch black PVC well pipe comes into dirt crawl space, pier construction, under cabin. I brought it ...
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Irrigation well under pressure, why is that?
I am located in Florida. I have an irrigation well and when I open the valve for the pipe that is on the top of the well, the water is under pressure.
Pump is mounted on the side and is a surface ...
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What is this well entry point called and what purpose does it serve?
My well line comes into the basement here. It has a pipe with a cover of some kind that is badly rusted. Suspecting I need it replaced.
I'm wondering what this cover is called and what purpose does ...
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Supporting a bad well from a good one
I own two vacation houses on adjacent lots in Wisconsin, about 150 feet apart. Each has their own water well. The well at the first house is in bad shape; I think I need a new sand point or possibly ...
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Well pump issues for irrigation system
I bought a house a few years ago and am finally getting around to working on the irrigation system.
I have what I believe are two separate wells for outside water - one for the irrigation system and ...
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How can I tap an unused well for outdoor watering?
I own the lot next to our house. We had a well drilled, thinking we would build there. Plans changed and now it just sits. The plan now is to plant about 100 trees. Is there a way to tap that well for ...
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Is my well pump serviceable after overheating and starting to leak?
A 'handy man' did work on my plumbing and shut off the main water to the house. He did not unplug the well pump, and it got really hot to the touch. When we hooked everything back up again, the pump ...
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Can I get rid of my sump pump?
My job moved me cross country and we bought a house (3 yrs old) that sits on a hill. It has a walk-out basement and the hill slopes away from there, yet the house was built with basement drainage ...
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Replacing a well pressure tank
I have a 19 gallon pressure tank that appears to be waterlogged. When tapping the tank it sounds like it is completely full of water and when running the water in the house the pump cycles constantly. ...
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How to turn off water to replace main shutoff on private well
My mother is on well water. Her main shutoff vale is quite old and nearly impossible to turn. I'd be comfortable replacing it (probably soldering a new one, or for sure a compression fitting) but don'...
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What could cause faucets to spit and sputter only in the fall/winter?
Except in summer, faucets sputter and spit. What could be letting air into the system?
In this case the setup is in the Northeast USA, New York State, with a pressure bladder tank, and shallow well. ...
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What would cause a well pump to suddenly be louder when operating?
We currently have an unknown (in terms of GPM) 3/4HP Franklin well pump, at an unknown depth (though our neighbor's well is at roughly 100'). Since we moved in, when the well pump is running, there ...
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Install differences / considerations between 75' water well and 300' deep water well
I'm wondering what the practical differences are when installing a water system in a 300' deep well vs a 75' deep well. The info I've found for "deep water wells" mostly refers to wells ...
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Digging a well, hitting a rock
I am digging a well with a hand-powered auger. I am 20 feet down and I am hitting a rock. How can I break up this rock so I can continue digging?
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how can I reduce manganese, hardness, radon, and prescence of coliforms in well water?
I'm purchasing a home in NH and just received my comprehensive water test from the inspector. Here are the marks I'm most alarmed at.
Hardness 264 (want it under 75)
Manganese: .51 (want it under .05)...
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Water pressure low after hose was left on overnight
The water pressure inside my house went way down and stayed down after the hose was left on overnight. It's been a while now and the water pressure is still low (useable but low). The air pressure ...
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Is this a sign of a dry well?
I came to my old house after a week out, and found two strange things:
An electrical bill for $160 (normally $20 in the summer).
No water in the house.
The house has a well with pump. After turning ...
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What is the procedure for restarting a drilled well?
Drilled well hasn't been used in 15 years. I turned pump on 2 years ago by mistake and a bit of water came out of the black PE pipe. I figure at least the water in the well is stale and I should drain ...
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How do you find underground pipe and wires to a private well and how deep would they be?
I need to terrace some stairs into a steep hill, but my well is at the bottom of the hill and my house is at the top. Therefore there has to be pipe and wires going up the hill somewhere. I don't know ...
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No pressure, low volume from submersible well pump
Got a new submersible pump. Brought the old one to a plumber's supply house and got one with the same specs: single phase, 240v 3-wire.
I attached the pump to the pipe, connected the wiring, and ...
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Location of pressure tank
A well drilling company drilled a well for me and ran lines from the well to my RV pad (AS as in Airstream in the attached image) and in the opposite direction to a shed which will house the pressure ...
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Well water pressure
A month ago had the well pump replaced because we had no water.
The plumber said our pump went bad. It was about 20 years old. They told us then that our well depth was 225. We have slowly been ...
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Sealing the inside of a water well to use it as a reservoir?
We've had unusually dry weather and our well has run so low that we had to call in a water hauling company to refill it a few days ago.
The water man told me that even though he dumped in ~ 1000 ...
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How to Troubleshoot 25-foot Drilled Well and/or Supply Line
Background:
Shallow drilled well (25ft) at a 3-seasons cottage.
Has a single supply line to a jet pump
Water system turned off for winter, and reopening around this time
typically, when reopening, it ...
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How can I fairly distribute water pressure and flow throughout my home?
All new home plumbing. Well fed, so we have our own booster pump and we control the water inlet pressure.
My goal is to split the house into four "zones" that I can turn off, independently with a ...
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Pressure Cycling and Suspected Ruptured Line
We're having a bit of trouble with our well and water pressure, and I'm hoping you all might be willing to help us troubleshoot.
This is a residential home with a well and a tank with a 40/60 ...
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Float switch as emergency cutoff for well pump
Our house is has a drilled well, with with 1/2 HP 230V well pump wired from a fixed pressure switch. We've had a couple of pinhole leaks in the copper piping that would have turned into major ...
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Reduce speed of existing well pump
My existing well pump (at 550 ft deep) is a nearly brand new (installed last July) 3 wire pump and I do not want to replace it. However, I now have a 1500 gallon underground cistern in which to store ...
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Getting the most out of a low yield well
I have a low yield well: it's only 27 feet deep which is a big part of the problem. Recently a neighbor had their well re-dug to 350 feet which I guess lowered the water table, because ever since we ...
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How do I fix a loose brick on the corner of a tree well?
I have a loose brick on a recently made tree well. I have Quikrete Type S mortar and I'm planning on getting a trowel. What are the steps to remove the existing mortar on the brick (which is ...
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Could treated water backflow into my RO system?
This may be a bit of an odd question, but where I live, the well water is extremely bad. The amount of sulfer in the water makes it unusable for anything other than washing dishes and laundry. I had ...
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Well pump stops working after 30 minutes
Where I live I have well water. Ever since I bought the house, 14 years ago, the pump has stopped working after approximately 30 to 45 minutes. At that time you head on down to the basement and lift ...
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Can I just remove this well cap as it is now?
I have an old house with two wells. One is a shallow well, the other is a deep well with a submersible pump. The submersible pump needs replacement, so I want to pull it up and replace it.
When I ...
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Putting a submersible well pump on top of another well pump
So, my situation is, my submersible well pump is dead. My well is about 100' deep and it is 4" wide and the casing is steel. The professionals I've hired to remove and replace the pump have given ...
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Looking for advice / critique on my residential well water filtration system
I'm looking for some feedback on my planned well water filtration system. I tried to be as detailed as possible without writing a wall of text. Any feedback is highly appreciated!
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4 bedroom / ...
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Well Inspection Failed
Looking at buying a house that is on Sepctic and a private Well. Got the well inspection back, and failed for Total Coliform (Ecoli and Nitrate Level are fine). The septic is on the other side of ...
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well pressure tank losing pressure
My well pressure tank has this symptom... Tank cycles about every 4 minutes without any water running. checked the pressure and it is where it should be. In between cycles I can see the pressure dial ...
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Front yard flooding, drainage help needed
[Front yardThe front of my yard faces the main road, which is on a higher grade than my driveway. My driveway dips for the first approx. 5 feet, then dips back up towards my garage, this causes water ...
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Well line cover is leaking in heavy rain. What is the likely fix?
My well line comes in at this point below. The water line itself is just the Pex but it’s wrapped in a PVC-like cover. There is water coming in from the PVC cover in heavy rain.
It’s coming through ...
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Chemical Injection Valve for Static Inline Mix Chamber
I have well water. The water is acidic and needs Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) solution added to adjust the pH. The system has a Pulsa Feeder static inline mixing chamber, part no STM100-PVC. The NaOH is ...
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Use cement blocks for egress window well surrounding [duplicate]
I need to make an egress window and the depth below grade is 24".
However, most egress window wells at home improvement stores are 20" in height and I need to buy 2 of them which made the cost double....
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Why do people have outdoor pump houses for their well?
Why do people build outdoor pump houses for their well? I have read it is to help prevent the components from freezing but by putting them outside all they do is freeze. Every winter they freeze and ...
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How would you build a well cover for a dug well?
The well is about 3 foot square, made out of cinder blocks. The blocks stick up out of the ground about 1 foot. I want something simple and light to keep rain, dirt, animals out. The well is in heavy ...
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