Had to get a new well pump installed today

[Funflyer]

So I guess it will be a good idea to avoid asking the wife for any new toys for a few months. Had my eye on a Baby Rock and was going to order it today but, as luck would have it, the pump crapped out yesterday. I knew enough to check the pressure switch and replace the controller but know nothing after that. Pump company came out first thing and $2600 later I'm mixing water with my Scotch again. Old pump was dated 4/8/1994 so it was on borrowed time anyway I suppose.

 

[Protocall_Design]

A beer would have been a lot cheaper...

 

[HARDWARE]

They are not cheep. But it ain’t easy gettin em out

 

[ancient-one]

How deep is your well? I guess pump costs have really gone up since I bought one for the lake property. Come to think about it, that was a long time ago.

 

[Whitwabit]

My pump was put in the ground in 1980 and the well is 328 feet deep .. it is into the aquafer and has something like a 12 gallon a minute flow rate when it was tested when drilled .. which was the highest the company could test for .. so really not sure what it could pump with a bigger HP pump ..

A new well in my area runs between 8 and 15 grand all according to how deep or if your lucky and hit natural gas .. you can heat your house free then .. friends heat their home and a large inground pool and use it all year and it is open to the elements .. so swimming during a snow storm can be a lot of fun ..

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

MY farmhouse had a shallow well with the pump in the basement. In the 32 years in that house I rebuilt the pump 4 times and replace the pump and motor 3 times!

My dad and brother had deep wells and the houses we built and sold off had deep wells (deepest was 8", 185 feet deep! on dad's second farm). Since 1963 we had a total of ONE deep well pump go out!

I hear the going rate for 4" wells is $20-25 per foot plus casement, tank and pump!

There is a "Private" Water company in the area (Tap fee $2000 plus line) and hardly anyone drill wells! The condo complex we live in has a "Private Utility" that sells us water and Electric, they buy their water from the Private water supplier in the next county north and pipe it into the City! (About the same price to us, but we generally have better water and lots better service than city water! Our area (Columbus, Ohio) the largest part of commercial water bills, is the sewer bill, and the largest part of sewer bills is the rain/storm sewer portion. Our condo complex has retention ponds and manmade wetlands to deal with the rain water so no sewer bill for that and septic is contracted with the city by the cubic yard! We (condo association and privet utility) are protected from "Predatory" City utilities!

I had 3 apartment complexes, (about 1000 units total) the city raised water/sewer rates about 5 times faster than inflation! They started this in the mid to late 80's and still are doing it! So developers would establish private utilities before building and the courts have upheld it!

Ivan

 

[HARDWARE]

mine is 189 ft if i recall... seems like it ran somewhere in the neighborhood of 3K to replace the pump.

i have a vague recollection of somebody saying that your well makes what it makes and larger HP pumps wont increase that.

 

[mrchuck]

My well is for lawn irrigation only as the water has lots of minerals in it and is not drinkable unless heavily treated,
My large lawn,2 acres loves it as I have 48 sprinkler heads on a new rainbird control box.
Looks like a city park and landing zone for the Mallard ducks that visit annually.

 

[BigBill]

Been there done that. New well pump five years ago. Had to remove it from the basement and put it in the well. Luckily the seller of the house when I bought it gave me $2100 towards a new pump. The home inspector suggested it. Old pump.

I would like to install a 12volt pump in another well.

 

[HARDWARE]

My well is for lawn irrigation only as the water has lots of minerals in it and is not drinkable unless heavily treated,
My large lawn,2 acres loves it as I have 48 sprinkler heads on a new rainbird control box.
Looks like a city park and landing zone for the Mallard ducks that visit annually.

better hope the hogs dont show up.

 

[paulh]

Damn, mine was replaced about 5 years ago, leaking oil. Total was less than $700.00 for new pump

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...my wife and her sister inherited their mother's house...

...the furnace gave out the day my wife got the deed from the county...

...$4100 if I remember correctly...

 

[mtgianni]

Old house we replaced one in 2015, 135 ft deep 1 1/4 hp $750 installed. Current home drill 170' case and install 1 hp pump, 220 gallon equivalent pressure tank and piping cost $3100.

 

[Funflyer]

How deep is your well? I guess pump costs have really gone up since I bought one for the lake property. Come to think about it, that was a long time ago.

Well is 300 feet but I had the company put in new drop pipe also. After watching it done I could probably do it myself if a rental yard had an a-frame/hoist for rent.