Water or Cameras (Page 4): Look at it this way; now you have something you really need.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

jerryc41 wrote:

Like most people in this area, I have well water. Yesterday morning, the pump, two hundred feet below the surface, decided to retire. After a couple of phone calls, a plumber came and took a look. Sure enough, the pump was dead. His crew will be arriving later to replace the pump and take almost $6,000 from me.

When I think of the cameras I could have bought...

Look at it this way; now you have something you really need.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

starlifter wrote:

Oh well !

Love it!

foathog Loc: Greensboro, NC

can't you get a second quote from someone??? that sounds VERY outrageous

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

jerryc41 wrote:

Like most people in this area, I have well water. Yesterday morning, the pump, two hundred feet below the surface, decided to retire. After a couple of phone calls, a plumber came and took a look. Sure enough, the pump was dead. His crew will be arriving later to replace the pump and take almost $6,000 from me.

When I think of the cameras I could have bought...

$6,000 seems like a heck of a lot of money to replace a well pump. Ours was hit by lightning about 6 years ago and the submersible pump itself was only about $500. Our well was 320'. That seems like an awful lot of money to haul up the pvc pipe & replace the pump? Maybe a well drilling company would have been a less expensive way to go.

Papa j Loc: Cary NC

Jerry I feel your pain December was very cruel 3 unit HVAC system $25,195. Re caulking bathrooms and kitchen $2500. Broken springs on the garage dippers $500. And $6000 for a bathroom leak and wood floor repair. And then there was Christmas!!!!

Joe

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Wow...I pay about $22.00 +/- every quarter for water.
Kind of a unique situation - Baltimore City (MD) is surrounded on 3 sides by Baltimore County - they are 2 separate political jurisdictions. The city as no water of its own - it uses the County's water and pays for it by providing county residents with water at a very low rate and maintaining the water infrastructure (the pipes).
Sewage is a couple of hundred dollars included in my annual property tax bill.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

jerryc41 wrote:

When I lived on Long Island, we paid for water.

Your water comes from practically across the street from me - the Ashokan Reservoir.

We pay an average of $35 a quarter here on the barrier island (Atlantic Beach to Point Lookout) now. Not bad. I don’t remember what we paid when we lived in Queens.

Nice shot of the reservoir Jerry.

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

since they are not coming today, get a second opinion. That is a lot more than the cost of a pump.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Doddy wrote:

This is the last thing you want in the Bedroom Dennis..lol.

I thought so. Thanks for the heads up.

Dennis

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

jerryc41 wrote:

Like most people in this area, I have well water. Yesterday morning, the pump, two hundred feet below the surface, decided to retire. After a couple of phone calls, a plumber came and took a look. Sure enough, the pump was dead. His crew will be arriving later to replace the pump and take almost $6,000 from me.

When I think of the cameras I could have bought...

I had a similar thing happen in AZ.

farwest Loc: Utah

jerryc41 wrote:

Like most people in this area, I have well water. Yesterday morning, the pump, two hundred feet below the surface, decided to retire. After a couple of phone calls, a plumber came and took a look. Sure enough, the pump was dead. His crew will be arriving later to replace the pump and take almost $6,000 from me.

When I think of the cameras I could have bought...

That is way high we have had a bad year had the pump pull 3 times with the pump being replaced twice. What size of casing is your well what type of pipe is down the hole and what is the horsepower of the pump. I put in a new constant pressure system with a 1 1/2 pump with the 200 feet of pipe schedule 120 pvc threaded for a little over 2000.00 which also included a new controller. Something is not right here.

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

jerryc41 wrote:

Like most people in this area, I have well water. Yesterday morning, the pump, two hundred feet below the surface, decided to retire. After a couple of phone calls, a plumber came and took a look. Sure enough, the pump was dead. His crew will be arriving later to replace the pump and take almost $6,000 from me.

When I think of the cameras I could have bought...

six years.

My well is 125'. The pump stopped working, so I pulled the pump with the 125' of flex pipe up into the basement, wire tested the pump which would not run. Yes, the pump had died after estimated 30 years. Went to home depot and ordered a new one for some hundreds of dollars, bought shrink wrap tubing, connected it and reinstalled the pump down the well pipe. No rip off $6,000 dollars for a job requiring ONE man, not a CREW, but only those hundreds of dollars and MY day's labor. You are being taken for a ride. Those well pumps are nearly indestructible and should last much longer than a few years.

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

Ouch. That is over twice what I paid about a year ago. Our well is only 98 feet deep. Maybe things are cheaper in NE Indiana.

oregon don

BboH wrote:

Wow...I pay about $22.00 +/- every quarter for water.
Kind of a unique situation - Baltimore City (MD) is surrounded on 3 sides by Baltimore County - they are 2 separate political jurisdictions. The city as no water of its own - it uses the County's water and pays for it by providing county residents with water at a very low rate and maintaining the water infrastructure (the pipes).
Sewage is a couple of hundred dollars included in my annual property tax bill.

Don't move! In Salem Oregon our Elitist city fathers have charged us for the free water, charged us to get rid of the free water and the one that gets me is charged to get rid of our rain water, a total of $70 a month.

Then last June our city manager found out that our mountain water was tainted on Saturday, He waited until Wednesday to notify the electorate. HE STILL HAS HIS JOB!

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

farwest wrote:

That is way high we have had a bad year had the pump pull 3 times with the pump being replaced twice. What size of casing is your well what type of pipe is down the hole and what is the horsepower of the pump. I put in a new constant pressure system with a 1 1/2 pump with the 200 feet of pipe schedule 120 pvc threaded for a little over 2000.00 which also included a new controller. Something is not right here.

Depth and diameter has a lot to do with cost.
Mine was 600' deep and 6" in diameter.