Fixing the Well

Those of you guys who read my Blog regularly probably know that Roadrunner (a Well Serica Company) was supposed to pull the pump last Friday. Well that never happened and they didn't call when they were coming instead.

To make a long story short... after 2 additional calls to them they finally showed up today around noon. So they start pulling out one well pipe after the next one and after a little over 500 ft they finally got to the pump. Now we know that our well is about 520 or 530 ft deep... and that's actually less deep than I would have thought. If I had to guess, I would have estimated to well to be somewhere between 600 and 700 ft deep.

After some examination turns out that the motor is bad. They put in a 2 horse power pump and apparently there's less water draining to the pump than the pump is actually able to handle... and that is what in the end burnt out the motor. So we replaced the pump with a 5 gallon/minute 1 1/2 horse power pump. The well pipes are still fine and should be good for at least another 15 years or so. After that the put everything back in and a little after 3 pm they were done. We don't know the exact cost yet, but it's somewhere around $ 3,000. But that's part of owning a house.

After the well people had left we took a look at the pump and the flashing indicator light told us that the pump was running. So we walked up to the holding tank and we could hear the water gushing into the holding tank... and that was a noise that made me really happy!!