Brad Smith
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Howdy, my name is Brad Smith and thanks for hosting such a nice forum. I'm rather kinda sorta new to dealing with residential water issues and wells in general but I do know my way around plumbing and electrical work.
I bought this house eight years ago and I'm about to change my pump for the second time and the pump was almost new when I bought the house. The well was put in in 1954 and I'm getting a fair bit of rust. I don't want to have to continue having a truck come out to swap out my pump. The pump is now sitting at around 110 feet in a 150 foot well with a water level of about 65 feet, the water tastes great and tested perfect too. Can I get away with putting in a deep jet pump so that I can do the work myself in the future? Last time this happened it was smack in the middle of winter and it took me a month before it was even possible to get the truck back to where I live. I'd rather do a ton of maintenance myself than go through that again. I've been reading everything I can and looking for video's but there is surprisingly little out there on using these deep jet pumps.
The guy who put my last pump in is the only person local at all and he will NOT put in a deep jet well pump for me. So if I do this I plan to do it myself. First of all, can I even use a deep jet well at that depth? From what I read I don't see why not or even why he made such a fuss about it. What kind of problems should I expect to run into and are they really so much trouble that it's a big mistake to go with a jet pump? Another question, he's kind of being weird about it and I'm not sure he will even come out and pull the pump he put in if I don't have him also put in a new submersible. His truck is also broken right now and the pump is dead, so unless I can do this I'm out of water for a while. I can't pull the old one by hand, I tried last time. It kept getting hung up. I think there was a fix done on the well with a collar or sheath or whatever that is called and the submersible pump that was in there kept snagging on that and we could not pull it up any further than that.
Can I put in a jet well pump system and leave the old one in place or do I have to remove it, I think there is room? The pump itself is in my basement in it's own room, it's not outside in the weather or anything like that. Is it possible to just slip the new pipes past the old one and run it that way?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys might offer, I really appreciate it and so will my wife and kids if I can get this done, because we are out of water right now.
I bought this house eight years ago and I'm about to change my pump for the second time and the pump was almost new when I bought the house. The well was put in in 1954 and I'm getting a fair bit of rust. I don't want to have to continue having a truck come out to swap out my pump. The pump is now sitting at around 110 feet in a 150 foot well with a water level of about 65 feet, the water tastes great and tested perfect too. Can I get away with putting in a deep jet pump so that I can do the work myself in the future? Last time this happened it was smack in the middle of winter and it took me a month before it was even possible to get the truck back to where I live. I'd rather do a ton of maintenance myself than go through that again. I've been reading everything I can and looking for video's but there is surprisingly little out there on using these deep jet pumps.
The guy who put my last pump in is the only person local at all and he will NOT put in a deep jet well pump for me. So if I do this I plan to do it myself. First of all, can I even use a deep jet well at that depth? From what I read I don't see why not or even why he made such a fuss about it. What kind of problems should I expect to run into and are they really so much trouble that it's a big mistake to go with a jet pump? Another question, he's kind of being weird about it and I'm not sure he will even come out and pull the pump he put in if I don't have him also put in a new submersible. His truck is also broken right now and the pump is dead, so unless I can do this I'm out of water for a while. I can't pull the old one by hand, I tried last time. It kept getting hung up. I think there was a fix done on the well with a collar or sheath or whatever that is called and the submersible pump that was in there kept snagging on that and we could not pull it up any further than that.
Can I put in a jet well pump system and leave the old one in place or do I have to remove it, I think there is room? The pump itself is in my basement in it's own room, it's not outside in the weather or anything like that. Is it possible to just slip the new pipes past the old one and run it that way?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys might offer, I really appreciate it and so will my wife and kids if I can get this done, because we are out of water right now.
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