A poorly installed well may only last 12 to 15 years. A water well pump only lasts 8 to 15 years before it needs to be replaced. A well drys up when water levels drop below the pump intake. Water levels may return through aquifer recharge, where water moves downward from surface water to groundwater, or pumping is lessened. To determine if a well has gone dry, hire a well company to measure the water levels. There are no monthly water bills with wells.
Since it's impossible to know how deep you'll need to drill, it's difficult to acquire a set price quote before beginning work on the well. Be sure to get everything in writing first. Your contractor should provide you with a fee schedule and a list of costs for any unforeseen circumstances. If the contractor does not find water in the drilling site, they'll try another location, but you'll have to pay for the drilling for both sites.
When hiring a well drilling company, be sure to get at least three bids, and follow these tips:. Get free estimates. How much will your well drilling cost? Residential water wells are typically ' to ' deep and 4" to 6" in diameter.
Local well drillers or neighbors can give you an idea of how deep to drill. A well takes about a week to install and lasts up to 40 years with proper maintenance and care. A well provides free water for both residential and irrigation needs. Geothermal wells provide heating and cooling energy for your home.
Any landowner may drill a well on their property. Consult with a professional well driller. View Pros. Get free estimates from well drillers. Hire a pro to install your well and septic system. Consult with an expert to find your ideal depth. Still have questions? Ask a well drilling pro.
Pray, Richard. PDF file. National Ground Water Association. Thank you! To answer your question, yes we did use PVC pipe. My husband first watched the on-line videos at the Bison site. Then he took our measurements of the well and emailed Bison. They told him what he needed to do the job. It shipped to the house 3 weeks later. He read the instructions yes, he READ the instructions first. He asked if I wanted to raise the height of the pump my back sometimes gives me fits.
He unboxed the pump and set it up on a few cinderblocks and I would go through the pumping motion. He measured exactly how much higher I wanted the pump and asked a welder from our antique car club to make an extendion platform that raised the heigth about 14 inches. Husband primed and painted the extension piece made of steel and assembled the whole thing in one hour. Piece of cake! Also could email you pictures of it installed. This pump has been a joy!
Hope this info helps! I see where your hand water pump post was from the month of June. I am new to your site and thought I would share what my family has recently done… even if my comments are late.
We live in a year old house built before Okla. Our well is about 33 feet deep. We are on city water but use our well to water the fruit trees and the garden…and this is pumped from the ground using electricity and a Little Giant submersable pump that we dropped in the well years ago. I wanted a way to hand pump water in case we ever lost electricity. We know of two families who bought the Bison brand Made in Maine. My husband emailed our specifications and questions to the Bison manufacturer and found out what parts we needed.
My guys installed everything in one hour and we were pumping H2O!!! I felt a sense of relief to have this in place. At age 48, I can pump for 10 minutes straight before I need to take a break. The first model is made for one or two operators, has a capacity up to 55 gallons a minute under human power depending on static level, the size of cylinder and fitness of one operator.
Capacity can be doubled and practical for large communities and irrigation from shallow wells with available manpower. From the limited time I spent digging into it, I believe that it works fairly well, though it may not be as easy to use as the Bison and Simple pumps.
For occasional, emergency use this should be a very good pump. Thanks for writing this; sometimes you need to stick to the basics!
Good article, you describe and share the best information for well pump reviews. We also provide well pump repair services through Monticello pump repair services Inc. I just want to be prepared for a power outage. I should have no problem with a hand pump.
Chuck, I think that should still work, but check with the hand pump manufacturers. Thanks Alex. I will research the manufacturers. Thanks , also for the rapid response. We also provide well pump repair services.
As much as all these manual pumps are awesome and relatively doable in price, if a separate hole is needed it would cost over 10k to drill, so that would be prohibitive in my case. Yam, these pumps are installed in the same well as the submersible pump. So both pumps fit into the same well. They do have a separate pipe, however. The pump unit replaces the sanitary cap that should be on your existing well. Check out Simple Pump. I am a Mainer and would love to buy Bison because it is a Maine product.
However, I did allot of research and concluded Simple Pimp is a better choice. It goes in the same hole as your existing drilled well. My husband and I are planning to live off-grid for a year after we watched a TV show about families living far away from metropolitan cities or even small rural towns. I appreciate that this post mentioned that water pumping is important as it keeps the water flow running efficiently.
Does that answer your question? The Bison pump is the only pump made for what you want. Like mine I bolted to the countertop of my cabin next to the sink and plumbed it to go back down and tie into my faucet. I have one and yes you can plumb it into an existing plumbing system inside and draw from a shallow well and pump into your existing plumbing! How well do these external pumps last in freezing temperatures?
Do you have to drain them or something and become unusable after it dips below a certain temperature? They are designed not to freeze, but in fact continue working even in freezing temperatures. Ours has lasted through the winter just fine. If this solution will work in AK, you may have a new sub-distributor for yourself. In the Valley area of Anchorage, it is not as drastically cold as Fairbanks and Juneau but it still gets very cold. Any solutions for insulating a ground top waterline that will probably remain buried in snow for the winter?
And most are outside — with no pump house. Jay, my son also lives in Northern Illinois and has two wells on his property, the one working more than the other to supply water to the house. What pump did you get?
The Bison? Any other information you could give me about the installation and if you like it and got thru the winter with it would be helpful. I would like to see him have access to water with the hand pump if the electric goes out and hoping that can be achieved. Thank you! Thanks for the information. I think this is great that there is an option for non electrical access to water from the deep well. I have been in the water well industry for 41 years.
I have frequently been asked to recommend a hand pump as backup for the usual electric submersible pump system. It took a year of design arguments and prototypes to finally produce our Storm Pump. It is made of stainless steel channel stock and fittings above ground, sched. The Storm Pump is new to the market. We have spread the word for about a year in county fairs and Expos by word of mouth and a website, stormpump. It produces 8. It has been installed in very tight drilled wells with electric systems in place on pitless adaptors.
It is designed for homeowner installation without professional help. I am sorry that we have not reached everyone with word of this pump. Word of mouth is a slow way to go. I invite anyone to contact me for details by visiting our website.
My contact information is on the opening page. Any suggestions about how to incorporate a hand pump, or am I just out of luck and need a new well. I live in FL. On top of the second largest spring system in the state. My pump is outside above ground. I want a hand pump for back up. I have only experience with the simple pump.
I have a typo in my last comment. The amount of strokes that delivered the The WaterBuck Pump is also designed for two operators which can yield a lot more water per minute with more cycles. And with the use of a larger cylinder for a shallow well, one average man can yield 55 gallons during a sixty second sprint. Our pump can also be equipped with twin cylinders and two pump levers, doubling the capacity for irrigation, if needed.
Bison Pumps now has a commercial hand pump for agricultural or community needs which yields 13 gallons per minute. Be careful when researching any hand water pump. Call all the players, ask all the questions. Often these blogs only give part of the information or information received from uninformed sources.
Pumping from shallow static water levels will result in much more water being pumped than from deeper static water levels. So, I am curious to know, what is the maximum static water level this 13 gallons per minute yield is being produced from with this new Bison commercial hand pump?
In other words, at what greater static depth is the yield reduced from 13 gpm to 11 by the same operator? Can an average man yield 13 gallons per minute at the maximum static depth or does it take a much stronger man?
What is the length of stroke, size of cylinder and size of drop pipe used for the new Bison hand pump? How many strokes per minute is required to yield 13 gpm? Well WaterBoy Products has a new hand pump for agricultural and community needs that yields These current test results were performed by an average man in his fifties.
A video demonstration of these test results can be viewed from the following page. I would be interested in seeing the pump specifications for this new pump you speak of. Perhaps there is a video you can share of this new pump in operation yielding 13 gpm? I am pricing out a well for a new property; my requirements were to have only solar power no grid!
The well guy was great, but he did caution that trying to pump by hand produced small volumes of water with a great amount of arm strength. I thought of it because while I have very little arm strength, my leg muscles are very strong. I too have been searching for a hand well pump for power outages and emergencies. I live on top of a big hill and my well is dug ft deep , my static water is at ft and my well pump is at ft.
I was able to get this information by calling my county office and speaking to the sanitation and zoning department. Hope this helps. I was unsuccessful getting the company who installed my well to help me with anything. They pretty much laughed at me and never called me back. Whenever I call well companies re: a handpump, they tell me to just get a generator. Exactly what they just told me. Just to clarify: 1. Bison Pumps are pressure pumps and can be used to pressurize a tank.
A Bison Pump could pump from deeper depths as the competition claims, but in either case, it will be hard to pump and will yield very little. Hi Michele, I just bought and installed a Bison Shallow well pump in my basement to pump water during a power outage.
I took the outlet of the pump to my accumulator tank to pressurize the system to my house. I pumped it today to 30 PSI just to test it and it ran my shower head for 7 minutes before needing to pressurize it again. This pump works great. But HOW does one find out how deep his well is? You might look and see if you have something similar telling the depth of your well. There are lots of pumps that can build pressure and be connected to pump into your house pressure tank.
There are lots of pumps that can be used with your existing electric pump….. I have a simple pump installed at feet. During the initial install, it took myself and a stout friend to do it and that was dry. We struggled with the last sections, lifting the line, pulling the safety tool and lowering it for the next section.
Forget pulling it wet and full of water. Thankfully, I have a small well drilling rig that is 11 feet tall with an electric puller. The average person with no tools and knowledge would be in a bind in a SHTF situation, so be prepared and practiced to do maintenance on ANY system you install or have installed.
At this depth, it only pulls just less than a gallon a minute. I now have to installed a 2HP electric to run off my genny. What I will do if that fails and have to support many people and animals is yet to be seen?
So far as I can tell, all the products on the market are for wells only up to feet deep, but ours is drilled to at least ft. Anyone have suggestions? But it sounds like it might not really be possible? Should I maybe contact the local well-driller and pump guy to see what he suggests?
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