| Sylvan Butler 2005-06-01, 9:03 am |
| On Mon, 30 May 2005 22:24:42 -0600, Notan <notan@ddress.com> wrote:
> Your disaster got me to thinkin'... Can a well pump
> be turned off during extended absences, then turned
> back on, upon returning home?
Sure. But if you share the well with someone, that other someone might
get a bit upset... Or if you have someone coming over to take care of
your animals, they might appreciate water.
I usually turn off the water to the house, but leave the well on so the
barn still has water. That wouldn't have helped me last week though...
Last wednesday at 3am I woke to water pouring in thru the basement wall.
Leak in the main line right outside the basement. Only solution was
turning off the pump.
Still trying to figure out how I could be prepared for something like
that... I did have a water alarm which meant I only had an inch or two
of water down there. And luckily I have neighbors so I was able to run
a garden hose between my washer inlet and their nearest spigot to keep
the showers and toilets going. I'm thinking some valves and attachment
point at the well so I could isolate the well from the house (and the
pressure tanks) would give me a way to access water if there was a main
line leak like that again.
(Side note... well folk and plumbers wanted to replace my main line.
Minimum bid was $4000 for a backhoe-dug trench, high bid was well over
$6000 for directional boring with only three 4x4x4 foot holes in the
lawn. I decided I could do a lot of digging for $4000, but I had to
have my own water ASAP. So I spent saturday digging in the crawlspace
of an adjoining addition that had also flooded. 9pm that night all was
back to normal and I got change back from the $10 I used to buy parts.)
sdb
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