Lou from Wi.
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Son in law found his freeze up on his well, installed new heat tape and added a 150W light in the well house. It is working fine now.
Last night at 8:30 pm, my other daughter called, pump is inside the basement, gauge holding at 20# and will not increase in volume. With all the experience I've accumulated sounded like a small rock sucked up against the nozzle in the bottom of the well venturi.
It wasn't that, my son opened the well house and put in a small milk house heater, waited an hour, bumped the pump,by plugging and unplugging,a few times, It started to build pressure above 20#.
We had actual -29 below and a wind of 15 MPH blowing across the lake. The well house has 2" darafoam covering the lid of the well house and 1- 1/2" on the walls. Come spring that will change. We're going to build a shelf inside the well house for the heater, and add more darafoam on the walls and roof.
As we were pumping the well, my son noticed an odor from the water, so my daughter will get a test kit, and have it re-tested again. Water tested fine on the onset when the well was first put in. There has been other wells put in around her for new cottages,may have been a new well put in that has something on a bacteria strain or other contaminate being introduced into her well, by the drilling of other wells.
What a nasty way to spend an evening.This makes the 3rd full week of below zero temps, along with high winds.It's gotta break sometime(weather) can't be soon enough to suit me.
Hope you guys are having better luck, but from what I'm reading on different posts, seems like you're having our luck. Our house is a little over 1872 sq feet,basically heated with wood with fuel oil backup.both are on today,keeping it about 74 inside and still below zero outside.Extremely costly for us to heat with fuel oil only.
We have 2 265 gallon tanks and at $3.94 per gallon(you do the math) and our wood is $80.00 per logger cord per 10 cord load, it is way cheaper to heat with wood than oil, and considerable warmer heat.
I've always said that oil makes a person lazy, and a nice warm heat.It's just in this instance, we can't afford to be lazy.lol.
Anyway folks keep warm, up here we're supposed to get a warm up by Friday of 31+ degrees.
LOU
Last night at 8:30 pm, my other daughter called, pump is inside the basement, gauge holding at 20# and will not increase in volume. With all the experience I've accumulated sounded like a small rock sucked up against the nozzle in the bottom of the well venturi.
It wasn't that, my son opened the well house and put in a small milk house heater, waited an hour, bumped the pump,by plugging and unplugging,a few times, It started to build pressure above 20#.
We had actual -29 below and a wind of 15 MPH blowing across the lake. The well house has 2" darafoam covering the lid of the well house and 1- 1/2" on the walls. Come spring that will change. We're going to build a shelf inside the well house for the heater, and add more darafoam on the walls and roof.
As we were pumping the well, my son noticed an odor from the water, so my daughter will get a test kit, and have it re-tested again. Water tested fine on the onset when the well was first put in. There has been other wells put in around her for new cottages,may have been a new well put in that has something on a bacteria strain or other contaminate being introduced into her well, by the drilling of other wells.
What a nasty way to spend an evening.This makes the 3rd full week of below zero temps, along with high winds.It's gotta break sometime(weather) can't be soon enough to suit me.
Hope you guys are having better luck, but from what I'm reading on different posts, seems like you're having our luck. Our house is a little over 1872 sq feet,basically heated with wood with fuel oil backup.both are on today,keeping it about 74 inside and still below zero outside.Extremely costly for us to heat with fuel oil only.
We have 2 265 gallon tanks and at $3.94 per gallon(you do the math) and our wood is $80.00 per logger cord per 10 cord load, it is way cheaper to heat with wood than oil, and considerable warmer heat.
I've always said that oil makes a person lazy, and a nice warm heat.It's just in this instance, we can't afford to be lazy.lol.
Anyway folks keep warm, up here we're supposed to get a warm up by Friday of 31+ degrees.
LOU
