Houston, we have water!
This past weekend's project was to hook up the well. The very first step in our home building process was drilling the well, and that was about 2 years ago. So we were very excited to get it hooked up. McKim’s crew dug our trench line with their backhoe while they were out last week installing our drainfield. Here’s the trench…Last Thursday we picked up all the necessary parts for the well installation, including the well pump, water line, pressure tank, electrical "rastafari" wire, conduit, a frost free pump and a box full of fittings. On Saturday we started by dropping the well pump into the well. Rob came over to help and join in on the fun. Below is the well pump getting wired. Our well is 200 ft deep and we wanted to drop the water line 180 ft deep with the pump attached at the end. We laid the line out down our driveway and carefully lowered it down the well casing.Once the well pump was lowered into position, we installed our frost free hydrant. This hydrant will come in handy for our garden, landscaping and all that grass we're about to plant. Next, we used Rob's hammer drill to drill a hole into our foundation for the water line. Here's Rob hammer drillin' away…The drill started smoking mid-way through the foundation wall…not good. After taking it apart, then hemming and hawing, we decided we'd run to TW Perry to rent another drill to finish the holes. Onto the next problem. Once we finished drilling the holes, we realized that we placed the water line hole too close to our electrical panel. Code requires that the water line be at least 3 feet away from the electrical panel and our hole was only 18 inches away. From there the weekend went downhill quickly. After spending the night backfilling into the wee hours (see below), the bobcat decided to smoke like the drill the following morning. After several trips to the 'burg, the bobcat was repaired, a new hole was drilled, and two days later we are good to go! We are still getting used to the fact that we have water. No more lugging buckets and water bottles to the job site! The new, slightly angled hole.
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