Jay Vining
New Member
In the giving spirit. My new house keeps letting me down.
Saturday early morning when the katalox went to regen. The well pumped sand and hit the big blue pre filter so hard it blew the bottom out starting to flood the basement. I whipped it on bypass(raw water) in the heat of the moment probably destroying my tankless and all the cartridges in the house.
Made an emergency service call 1 day later after I realize it was in fact the well and not some weird equipment failure on my filter stuffs. Emergency service showed up today at 8am ( musta been a busy weekend I guess ). They came out.... saw what was going on...hooked up the truck, raised the well pump 80' and let it run into the yard for about 40 mins....gave me a bill @ 175/hr and away they went. I know the pipes in the house are plugged badly, but I was flushing and flushing still getting sand right at the pressure tank hose bib (about 50' from the well head). Never had a well before. Pretty much beyond annoyed with this situation really since homeowners won't touch it. And an 18mo well is shot more than likely as well as about everything that uses water.
Is this a normal occurrence with Wells? Is my pump basically untrustable now? Anything I can do?
The guys were saying " there's other stuff we can do if this doesn't work but one of them is a new well". I am fortunate in life but im not looking forward to another 15k in this little time. Hey, at least they left the 80' of well pipe they took out for my trouble..... considering I paid for all that extra depth lol.
Info: ~250ish' originally, now ~170'. Clean clear water 40gpm? Might be 20 idk. Rougly 18mos old, working family of 2 so not huge water users minus backwashing filters.. Lined a decent way since it was making sand and clay when they were drilling. Grundfos constant pressure pump.
Sorry its long. But thanks!!
Saturday early morning when the katalox went to regen. The well pumped sand and hit the big blue pre filter so hard it blew the bottom out starting to flood the basement. I whipped it on bypass(raw water) in the heat of the moment probably destroying my tankless and all the cartridges in the house.
Made an emergency service call 1 day later after I realize it was in fact the well and not some weird equipment failure on my filter stuffs. Emergency service showed up today at 8am ( musta been a busy weekend I guess ). They came out.... saw what was going on...hooked up the truck, raised the well pump 80' and let it run into the yard for about 40 mins....gave me a bill @ 175/hr and away they went. I know the pipes in the house are plugged badly, but I was flushing and flushing still getting sand right at the pressure tank hose bib (about 50' from the well head). Never had a well before. Pretty much beyond annoyed with this situation really since homeowners won't touch it. And an 18mo well is shot more than likely as well as about everything that uses water.
Is this a normal occurrence with Wells? Is my pump basically untrustable now? Anything I can do?
The guys were saying " there's other stuff we can do if this doesn't work but one of them is a new well". I am fortunate in life but im not looking forward to another 15k in this little time. Hey, at least they left the 80' of well pipe they took out for my trouble..... considering I paid for all that extra depth lol.
Info: ~250ish' originally, now ~170'. Clean clear water 40gpm? Might be 20 idk. Rougly 18mos old, working family of 2 so not huge water users minus backwashing filters.. Lined a decent way since it was making sand and clay when they were drilling. Grundfos constant pressure pump.
Sorry its long. But thanks!!