Hi,
My recently-bought house is over 100 years old and I have a water well that is in a pump room in the basement. Pump is ancient (driven by leather belt), is disconnected and there's no motor. The well is about two and a half feet in diameter (lined with approximately 3-foot sections of some sort of ceramic casing) and about 27 feet deep. Usually there is water visible at the bottom and there is gravel down there too. An inch and a half or two inch galvanized pipe goes down the inside of the well casing and into the gravel at the bottom. There is a 1/4 or 3/8 inch steel rod inside the galvanized pipe, which seems to be stuck. What can anyone tell me about the well and recommendations for un-sticking the rod, making the well useable, type of pump to use, etc.? Thanks in advance!
RayJay
My recently-bought house is over 100 years old and I have a water well that is in a pump room in the basement. Pump is ancient (driven by leather belt), is disconnected and there's no motor. The well is about two and a half feet in diameter (lined with approximately 3-foot sections of some sort of ceramic casing) and about 27 feet deep. Usually there is water visible at the bottom and there is gravel down there too. An inch and a half or two inch galvanized pipe goes down the inside of the well casing and into the gravel at the bottom. There is a 1/4 or 3/8 inch steel rod inside the galvanized pipe, which seems to be stuck. What can anyone tell me about the well and recommendations for un-sticking the rod, making the well useable, type of pump to use, etc.? Thanks in advance!
RayJay