K Bar
New Member
Hello,
I hired a company to rehab my well. It is 65 feet deep. Six inch steel casing in rocky creek bed terrain. They said they could slip a four inch pipe down to bottom then do hammer drilling to to 120 or 150 feet or where ever we hit good water.
Problem--it took them a couple hours to set up on site and then they quickly found out that there is a deviation near the bottom of the hole and their four inch pipe would not go to the bottom so they could not do the job.
They called and gave me the bad news and told me I would have to pay $1000 mobilization fee. That is all fine and dandy--it was all in the estimate.
However after doing a little research I don't think the job should have ever been initiated. The deviation is clearly visible to the naked eye with a flash light. The well is not that deep--65 feet--you can see pretty far down maybe 50 feet and then it bends off line.
Question to you pro's. Shouldn't the driller have checked that his equipment would go down the hole--at least do a visual inspection. When he showed up to check the site to see if his rig would get in he wanted to look down the hole but didn't have a flash light so that never happened. I am not a pro but I can easily see that it is not a straight hole. There is a pretty good curve down there making it so you can't see any part of the bottom. Being that it's not a very deep hole and the curve is near the bottom kind of seems obvious that you are not going to get 20 foot sections of rigid steel pipe down it.
I feel like they screwed up or were negligent and it's costing me $1000.
What should I do.
Thanks for reading,
Thoughts, advise welcome,
Kbar
I hired a company to rehab my well. It is 65 feet deep. Six inch steel casing in rocky creek bed terrain. They said they could slip a four inch pipe down to bottom then do hammer drilling to to 120 or 150 feet or where ever we hit good water.
Problem--it took them a couple hours to set up on site and then they quickly found out that there is a deviation near the bottom of the hole and their four inch pipe would not go to the bottom so they could not do the job.
They called and gave me the bad news and told me I would have to pay $1000 mobilization fee. That is all fine and dandy--it was all in the estimate.
However after doing a little research I don't think the job should have ever been initiated. The deviation is clearly visible to the naked eye with a flash light. The well is not that deep--65 feet--you can see pretty far down maybe 50 feet and then it bends off line.
Question to you pro's. Shouldn't the driller have checked that his equipment would go down the hole--at least do a visual inspection. When he showed up to check the site to see if his rig would get in he wanted to look down the hole but didn't have a flash light so that never happened. I am not a pro but I can easily see that it is not a straight hole. There is a pretty good curve down there making it so you can't see any part of the bottom. Being that it's not a very deep hole and the curve is near the bottom kind of seems obvious that you are not going to get 20 foot sections of rigid steel pipe down it.
I feel like they screwed up or were negligent and it's costing me $1000.
What should I do.
Thanks for reading,
Thoughts, advise welcome,
Kbar