What an awesome video. I'll be doing this on our ten acre partial me and my wife recently purchased.

I like it!! May have to give it a try.

Excellent video, thank you!

Great job!!

We live in Florida here you dig a hole 6 ft and sure will find water

Good job!

Awesome project, the pump plumbing video would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Great work. Really enjoyed your video

@BadHomeowner

3 күн бұрын

Thanks!

🎉🎉🎉ty very much for this informative knowledge

Good back up well to operate commodes and get a purifier to be able to use water for emergency baths and cooking if main deep well goes out!

That was most cool. tHanks for the video. (I've wanted to drill horizontally to put in a drain. The idea is to go about ten feet and end up with a 4" pipe. My problem: I think about it too much and don't experiment with drilling techniques. tHanks again for the video!)

Well to get water where I am you have to go 400 ft and 390 of that is solid rock

@BadHomeowner

4 күн бұрын

Luckily I do not have to go that far!

@ISmellLikeBeefandCheese

Сағат бұрын

Same, I live at 5k ft in the Rockies and just spent 40k to get my well done. 400ft deep @20 gallons a minute

There's a 33-foot limit to using suction to draw water upwards, so you're at the max without going submersible. (Suction above 33' will cold-boil the water)

Great video job well done the horse next to well good idea what is the electrical voltage on your pump?

@BadHomeowner

Күн бұрын

This pump works on either 110/220 volts.

If you use some plywood with some old inner tube around the pipe will help you alot ,,I did this 50 years ago junky pump & old pipe ,,all that was available!!

Damnnn thats some rust free well water

@BadHomeowner

15 күн бұрын

well it looks good when it comes out fast, but I'm definitely getting some iron buildup inside the pipes as time passes.

I'm in Ohio next to a creek I don't think I'd make it 5 feet - was enjoyable to watch though.

@BadHomeowner

3 күн бұрын

Maybe 5 feet is all you need!

The horse head water source tell me how and when installed it to well casing

how did you make or where did you get the pressure washer lance / extension from? thank you for sharing this video!

@BadHomeowner

Ай бұрын

They're available on Amazon, I used these: amzn.to/3UtVPxB

Cone?? You mean step bits? Either way you got some pretty good ideas

Hi, Question, Could you have just skipped the 20 feet of 4-inch pipe, since the 2-inch went down beyond that, then the 1 1/4-inch down further beyond that? Thanks!

@BadHomeowner

3 ай бұрын

Yes you could. I wanted a 4 inch casing to make the initial digging somewhat easier, and in order to install a well cap (which comes in 4 and 6 inch sizes) to keep out debris and stabilize the 1-1/4 in pipe. And some areas may require a casing of a certain diameter if you want it to be "legit". But no it's not technically required.

Hi, Is there a separate video yet for the plumbing? I think I will invest and try your methods.

@BadHomeowner

3 ай бұрын

I will work on getting that out

I would be so paranoid about having it so close to my foundation, 🤷🏻 but like dude said above, how the hell didn’t you hit bedrock 😂 over here in lower Pa by West Virginia it’s like all rock. Out my way if your a home owner and don’t own a mini or a bobcat you would be considered under prepared haha. Nice job dude lol funny video. And that blue pump you have lasted me about 2 years befor the seal went. Just a little fyi, I had that same exact one. I get my water from a natural aquifer. Oh yea. And I’ll sub buddy 😇

@BadHomeowner

16 күн бұрын

Well it's by my shed foundation, not the house. And the groundwater recharges quickly. So it will be ok. I don't think I'm going to create a sinkhole --but if I do, I'll definitely put that on KZread lol. I'm closer to the coast, so I think rock is way down there, like hundreds of feet.

@PittsburghWelder

16 күн бұрын

@@BadHomeowner sinkhole video 😂 😂

I wonder what kind of filtering would be needed to make this potable. RO?

@murraygrigg

Ай бұрын

Depends on the water. Amazon has water test kits to find tds and specific ions. Water treatment for solids is easy but high tds requires more work to make it potable. Water for outside use is ok below 1,000 tds but water for house drinking is likely 200 ppm or less. Iron leaves staining and needs to be removed if it is high. There is quite a bit involved depending on your situation.

@BadHomeowner

28 күн бұрын

Yea I may get it tested here soon, just for kicks. I doubt it's drinkable, and I'm not sure if it can be filtered enough to be drinkable. But I'll figure that out at some point!

What I see running back down the hole you're drilling could've been taken care of with a 4" to 2 " reducer and you wouldn't need to cement it...just from what I'm seeing...but great job...anytime I see anyone trying to figure out on there own is inspiring

@BadHomeowner

15 күн бұрын

Figuring it out on my own is the only way I know how to do anything. For better and for worse...

@paulsawczyc5019

11 күн бұрын

@@BadHomeowner Yes, and the last thing you want is some "help" .

Right beside your old house.

@BadHomeowner

2 күн бұрын

It's right beside my shed. But yea, shed is same age as the house :)

dude, you may live in the only part of the world where you could do what youre doing. if i get down "10 before hitting silt stone and expanding clay. its wild to see soil that deep.

@BadHomeowner

7 ай бұрын

I went through quite a lot of hard clay, but no rock luckily.

@BadHomeowner

6 ай бұрын

@@carmichaelmoritz8662 where? there's no city water involved here.

Did you use a blader tank?

@TravisWebbUSA

2 ай бұрын

Yes, it's a 7 gallon pressure tank

Why did you assemble the entire 40’ well point section prior? Couldn’t you have assembled it as you were lowering it? I understand you don’t want to lose it, but it seems really hard to feed the 40’ into the hole

@BadHomeowner

3 күн бұрын

For one person doing it yourself, you'd be holding a many feet of pipe with one hand while somehow cementing the next pipe on top all while it dangles over the abyss -- no thanks. You really need a 2nd person if you want to assemble it piece by piece as you lower into the casing. 40 ft of pipe is heavy, and because the couplings are on the interior of the pipe, there's basically nothing to grab onto. Pre-assembling it and cramming it in there in one fell swoop was irritating, but very do-able by one person.

@sheppardfun5360

Күн бұрын

@@BadHomeowner That makes sense. Didn’t think about holding the many feet of assembled well point line as a solo DIYer.

Where did you buy the well point in europe?

@BadHomeowner

28 күн бұрын

I am in the US so I don't know where you'd get one in EU.

how is that pump working at 40 feet? i didn’t see an injector go down the pipe. Is water table less than 25 ft down? Shallow well pumps typically don’t work past 25 and jet pumps require an injector (i think).

@BadHomeowner

21 күн бұрын

Good question. It works because the TOP of the water table is only about 15 feet below the surface in my case. As long as the top of the water table is

@BadHomeowner

21 күн бұрын

The main reason shallow pumps can't work at, say, 200ft is because typically those depths reach into an aquifer which isn't "connected" to the water table, e.g. often there's a layer of rock in between. And so the water table at ~15ft doesn't "count" in that case. I'm sure someone else can give a better technical explanation, but that's basically how/why it works.

How did the galvanized pipe and hand pump get put in?

@BadHomeowner

23 күн бұрын

I dug a hole and stuck it in there! It's connected to the well pump.

@Floutlaw87

23 күн бұрын

@@BadHomeowner ahh I see

I'd like to see you add a filter to this to make it potable.

@BadHomeowner

7 күн бұрын

Yea I still need to do a water test to see if a filter can even make it potable. Maybe a future video

I nearly fell down a well, because i could not see that well.

Where did you find the 50’ hose and jetting nozzle for the pressure washer?

@BadHomeowner

15 күн бұрын

Hey, I just got it off Amazon. 50ft hose and nozzles: amzn.to/4eazjms

@raymathews366

13 күн бұрын

AMAzon called the snake

How much water do you estimate you used with jetting and other water you used? I would like to do this in an area without water, but wondering if its worth trucking in that much water. Thank you

@BadHomeowner

6 ай бұрын

Hard to tell exactly, but I'd estimate less than 200 gallons based on the amount of time the pressure washer was running.

@me-sd1sq

6 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner sounds good, that's an easy amount of water to bring. Thank you

What is the wand that you sent down the well pipe? Do you have a link to it?

@spiritvisionart

2 ай бұрын

power washer

@BadHomeowner

28 күн бұрын

Right here: amzn.to/3wJymkm

I've wondered about doing something similar. CA wants to control that however. They don't want you using anything without getting a taste of it themselves. Have you had the water tested? Wondering about what may have leached into a water table that shallow...

@BadHomeowner

7 ай бұрын

I haven't tested it, but it's unlikely I'd use it for drinking anyway. I ended up using it for my outdoor hoses and to run a sprinkler system. City water is very expensive here!

@jimsjacob

7 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner Yep! Thought the same things for usage if I did something similar. Water costs keep going up and up here too, regardless of the amount of rainfall…

@jimsjacob

6 ай бұрын

​@@carmichaelmoritz8662Maybe if politicians would stop misappropiating funds and spending more money than they tax, they wouldn't have to create myths like, "global warming/climate change" in order to take more and more of our money.

@jasonclay6218

Ай бұрын

What they don't know won't hurt them. I never tell the government anything about what I choose to do on my property.

Are there no rocks down there?

@BadHomeowner

7 ай бұрын

Not where I am on the East Coast, here it's alternating layers of sand and clay. In rocky areas you may have more difficulty with this approach.

@drescherjm

7 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner Ahh, For me in south western PA if we dig 6 inches we will likely hit shale so it won't work here.

@user-et3wx9jn8u

24 күн бұрын

@@BadHomeowner around where are you located on the east coast?

i did not see setting up the shut off

in my state, the well has to be permitted by the States dept of engineering. then after that you have to fight the county.

@YHERVIC

Ай бұрын

How would they find it?

come to my place and try to dig a well.

I would have actually laid the PVC on the roof and stood higher on the ladder to get more vertical pressure but well done all in all

@BadHomeowner

7 ай бұрын

Yea that is probably a better idea -- since I have the roof there might as well use it!

@poke_hoard422

7 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner yea let it do the hard work lol and it's at a decent angle already to guide it right in!

If that is a one pipe pump,

dude.... climb up the freakin ladder.... over here wrestling with the pipe from the 2nd step..... Just go up your ladder bro... hahaha

8:59 At close to 40 ft. you're just cork-screwing the entire length of PVC at this point, not turning it at the bottom (or turning at a coupling, since you didn't use primer). FYI, at only 40ft, don't ever drink this water. I wouldn't even put my hands in it, because its going to be full of pesticides and herbicides. A good future project would be switching to steel pipe and see if you can get to a potable-safe depth. This would probably require a gas-powered machine. Nice job.

@BadHomeowner

7 ай бұрын

FYI the yellow cement doesn't need primer. You're right I definitely don't want to drink from any shallow well -- I'm using this for irrigation only.

@chaseme9860

7 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner That type of cement is for CPVC, not PVC.

@bud5084

3 ай бұрын

Orange is for cpvc, he used a correct glue, look at HD your next trip.

@chaseme9860

3 ай бұрын

@@bud5084 wrong

@thewisecracker-rq1pu

2 ай бұрын

LoL! "..wouldn't even put my hands in it..." LoL! There's more chemicals in city water than there is in well water! After being filtered through at least 6 feet of earth, well water is cleaner than a lake you swim in and far cleaner than the ocean! And if you're still worried, boil it for 10 minutes! City people... I tell ya.... Geezus! This is a great video!