rdjnel59
New Member
New poster here and new cottage owner. Been reading all I can here and on other forum about winterizing our new cottage. It's a small place in Indiana with from what I can tell a shallow well with a jet pump located inside the cottage. I'm good with all the tasks of draining lines, pump, holding tank, hot water heater, and putting RV antifreeze in the traps. I'm most concerned with the well line running from the pitless adapter (I assume) into the pump inside the house. There is about a 4 foot section of about 2 inch black plastic (or something) that comes up from the ground and enters thru the side of the house wall to the pump. Does breaking the connection from this to the pump break the vacuum and cause any water in it to run back into the well under the freeze line? I've read on here about needing to use a T-Handle wrench to turn something down in the well itself to cause this and also read the recommendation of using a small drill pump and flexible hosing inserted down this pipe to pump the water out. Just not sure if the vacuum break alone will do it. Appreciate anyone's advice. Need to get this done in the next couple of weeks.