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Any of you own wells?
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yep, for the past 30 years or so....
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do yu use your well during the winters? I have never done so for fear of the water freezing and burning out the pumpComment
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OK now what kind of well are you talking about? I have my own private well which is my sole water supply. It has a heated building around it but yes, it feeezes when it's 30 below no matter what I do.
So you mean a separate well I think. Is it covered? How do you pump it now? Is it a hand pump or electric? You could use a small sump pump depending on how deep your well is and drain it after each use.
Anyway, it all depends on how you pump it now is what it boils down to.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body">do yu use your well during the winters? I have never done so for fear of the water freezing and burning out the pump </div></div> The water in the delivery line to the house??Comment
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The setup is very similar to this pic...I have a pump in my basement that carries the water into the house...
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The pipes should be placed below well below th efrost line to avoid freezing.
30f should not cause freezing.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The setup is very similar to this pic...I have a pump in my basement that carries the water into the house...
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As long as you have a submersible pump you'll be OK!
Mine is above ground so it doesn't matter how deep my well is, but it's 90 some feet deep. My lines coming into the house are 6 feet down and insulated but that isn't what freezes. Mine freezes where the lines come out of the heated insulated pump house no matter what I do, but only when it's 30 below or more.
You'll be alright Skells.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _______</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The setup is very similar to this pic...I have a pump in my basement that carries the water into the house...
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As long as you have a submersible pump you'll be OK!
Mine is above ground so it doesn't matter how deep my well is, but it's 90 some feet deep. My lines coming into the house are 6 feet down and insulated but that isn't what freezes. Mine freezes where the lines come out of the heated insulated pump house no matter what I do, but only when it's 30 below or more.
You'll be alright Skells. </div></div> I had a situation similar to that and i bought a 18ft thermostatically controlled heater wore and wrapped the section so close that none og thepipe exposed then use a plastic clop and anchor the sensor to th epipe. Thatwas about w years and no more freezing pipe. Th ethermostate cpomes on at about 40f. so one the pipe gets to 4o th ethermostat turn th eneater wire on . On then I wrapped it with insulation pipe.Comment
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Thanks Nanook!
Doc is your well above ground or submersible?Comment
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I don't have any exposed pipe either. But this is a 100 year old farm and this is the way the water is set up unless I can afford to convert to submersible, which is thousands. Everything is insulated, and under ground but there is one section that is not as deep as the rest because of the fact my pump is above ground. I keep a heater going 24/7 from November to April for this reason but still...it gets cold here on the tundra.
Ways around this would include running the water at a trickle on 30 below zero nights. This still doesn't work when it's 70 below wind chill though. I always keep several 5 gallon jugs of water on hand just for those occasions!
PS...Skells, you don't have to worry about leaving water running on cold nights and things. Your submersible is awesome and I have pump envy!Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't have any exposed pipe either. But this is a 100 year old farm and this is the way the water is set up unless I can afford to convert to submersible, which is thousands. Everything is insulated, and under ground but there is one section that is not as deep as the rest because of the fact my pump is above ground. I keep a heater going 24/7 from November to April for this reason but still...it gets cold here on the tundra.
Ways around this would include running the water at a trickle on 30 below zero nights. This still doesn't work when it's 70 below wind chill though. I always keep several 5 gallon jugs of water on hand just for those occasions!
PS...Skells, you don't have to worry about leaving water running on cold nights and things. Your submersible is awesome and I have pump envy! </div></div>
If you have good casing which i think you have, installing a submersible only require you check the depth then do the plumbing If you can rent a pneumatic pipe splicer, that would make it a nice summer project. Since you join up all the pipe lengths and then place the pump in the well and then use a flexible pipe between the horizantal then goes to the basement and the vertical that goes in the well. Then connect the electric the your pressure tank and remove the old one last after the new set up is running. that allows you to join it first and then place It in the well.Comment
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Nope, I do not have a good casing, it's very old and after my fire it was badly damaged. Actually, the last 20 foot section has fallen off so my foot valve is now at only 50 or 60 feet down. To do submersible I would have to have a whole new well put in. That's why after my fire I had to again go with a above ground pumping system. Sucks but it is what it is.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Ways around this would include running the water at a trickle on 30 below zero nights. This still doesn't work when it's <span style="font-weight: bold">70 below wind chill</span> though. </div></div>
stepping back outta dis yah thread...
brrrrrrrr....
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nanook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
PS...Skells, you don't have to worry about leaving water running on cold nights and things. Your submersible is awesome and I have pump envy! </div></div>
Pump envy...LOL! you sound like a man
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