?cost to drill water well

[dpratt68]

I would be sure you need a new well first...

We have been here 10 years and the first time we had an issue, we needed a pump and a ballast tank.

This past year, we had extremely low pressure: basically a trickle. It turned out that the pipes coming off the pump were corroded. We replaced a bunch of them and our pressure is great. Cost for that repair was just over $500. I hope to never need a new well; it's 7-10k in southcentral PA.

We bought a model home 18 yrs ago. The builder had the well dug to the bare minimum and then put the ballast tank. We have never had good pressure but also can't run the water for more than 20 minutes. Forget watering lawn, adding water to the pool... now that the pump and ballast tank are going I'm just wondering if it would be better to redrill and gain better pressure and hopefully be rid of the tank.

 

[kirstenb1]

We've been in our home 15 yrs. Our first well failed 4 yrs ago. It cost $7000. to drill a brand new one, with all new fittings, nearly 500 ft deep. I do remember the cost was a base price, with a per/foot charge. So a shallow well would be much cheaper, but with the occasional drought conditions here, it wasn't worth gambling on the depth, imho.

 

[dpratt68]

We've been in our home 15 yrs. Our first well failed 4 yrs ago. It cost $7000. to drill a brand new one, with all new fittings, nearly 500 ft deep. I do remember the cost was a base price, with a per/foot charge. So a shallow well would be much cheaper, but with the occasional drought conditions here, it wasn't worth gambling on the depth, imho.

Where are you located?

 

[kirstenb1]

In Virginia, between Richmond and Charlottesville. Our area has dry spells and high temps in the summer. There are 5 homes on our street. 4 of us have drilled (deep) wells, and one has a bored (shallow) well. That family always worries during a dry spell, because their well is only 60 ft deep, and their water pressure fluxes accordingly.

I hated taking all that $$ out of savings, but the peace of mind for a deep well here was worth it.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

I had a 583' well put down this past july, it cost $3,200, I did all the pump, tank hook-up, and ran the line to my house; another $1,000 and they would've done everything but I had it done in a day. Its a 2" well, when price shopping ask what size pipe, I checked on 3"(because its flowing in my fish pond and I wanted the extra flow) but the price almost doubled, 2" should be plenty for a couple of households. I'm in south Mobile, Alabama

 

[aprilgail2]

I had to open this thread simply to find out why someone would want to put a well in their yard! Guess we are spoiled because we turn the knob and the water comes from the street, never occured to me that people didn't have water coming from the street pipes!

 

[Sheaboys]

I had to open this thread simply to find out why someone would want to put a well in their yard! Guess we are spoiled because we turn the knob and the water comes from the street, never occured to me that people didn't have water coming from the street pipes!

I moved to our town from the city. Where there was city water and city sewer. To a town, no water and no sewer. It came as a complete shock to me, if the electricity went out, we could not flush. So if a storm is coming, fill the buckets..

 

[aprilgail2]

I moved to our town from the city. Where there was city water and city sewer. To a town, no water and no sewer. It came as a complete shock to me, if the electricity went out, we could not flush. So if a storm is coming, fill the buckets..

EWWW OMG I never even thought of that!! If your electric is out for days you cant flush?!?! After reading on the DIS that people still have cesspools in their yards or the like in places it will be REAL hard for me to move in the future to a place with no water/no sewer!!

 

[kirstenb1]

I moved to our town from the city. Where there was city water and city sewer. To a town, no water and no sewer. It came as a complete shock to me, if the electricity went out, we could not flush. So if a storm is coming, fill the buckets..

After having this happen over Christmas break one year, we bought a generator that day!!! DH jokes that it's like having your own mini-city with our own water and electricity/generator. Almost everyone in our neighborhood has a generator. April Gail, believe it or not, we fare much better than the people living in the city in a storm. When their power is out, they don't have generators, so they are at the mercy of the city to hurry up and restore power. During Hurricane Isabella, most of Richmond was without power for up to 10 days. There were so many downed trees, the utilities had to clear them first, before they could even get to the power lines. We were all up and running our generators right away.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

EWWW OMG I never even thought of that!! If your electric is out for days you cant flush?!?! After reading on the DIS that people still have cesspools in their yards or the like in places it will be REAL hard for me to move in the future to a place with no water/no sewer!!

Most places will have septic tanks rather than an open lagoon these days, but there are exceptions WAY out in the sticks. We're also fortunate in the country not to have the same spiderweb of power lines that exist in the city. When power has been out for 2+ days here, our power company has always been able to get us temporary power 2-3 times per day for an hour or two at a time. They really do a nice job, but I don't think it would work in a major urban center We keep a large metal milk jug on our porch as decoration. When a storm's coming, we often fill it & then we have water for flushing and all you have to do is dump a gallon in the bowl and everything goes away. We do under those circumstances subscribe to the old "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down" theory though