Water or Cameras
Dec 28, 2018 08:44:16 #
tommy2
Loc: Fort Worth, Texas
Wow, thanks for the posts reminding me why I moved into this CCRC! Not being young enough to want the challenge any more of owning a private residence precipitated this move 4 years ago.
Dec 28, 2018 09:04:18 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
EdJ0307 wrote:
You have to factor in the cost of electricity to run that pump and pumps use a lot. Also, if there is a power outage you don't have water. My daughter is familiar with that situation.
That's why I have a whole house generator and photo voltaic panels.
Dec 28, 2018 09:06:15 #
We have an 80' well. We have lived here 25 years and have had to replace the pipe once and more recently the pump but not the pipe. The pump repacement cost about $1200. So the pump lasted a LONG time! And the tank is still working fine.
We don't have many power outages, thank goodness. Worst was a three-day outage due to an ice storm. We were stuck at home because of the roads so we couldn't go elsewhere to get water. Nature helped us out by sending us snow to melt to flush the toilet.
We don't have many power outages, thank goodness. Worst was a three-day outage due to an ice storm. We were stuck at home because of the roads so we couldn't go elsewhere to get water. Nature helped us out by sending us snow to melt to flush the toilet.
Dec 28, 2018 09:08:24 #
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.
Your water comes from practically across the street from me - the Ashokan Reservoir.
Nice shot, We usually do the walkway across the Rondout at least once a summer.
Dec 28, 2018 09:09:06 #
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...
When I think of the cameras I could have bought...
Way too much. The average cost to replace a well pump is $1,550, or between $836 and $2,266, according to more than 600 surveyed homeowners. Shallow pumps cost around $1,000 to install, while deep-well projects cost roughly $2,000. Most well pump units retail for between $100 and $1,200.
Make sure the guy kisses you when he's finished because he is sure you know whatin you.
Dec 28, 2018 09:10:30 #
bobmcculloch wrote:
We pay a separate water bill here in NYC, multiple installments, I'd have to check but I 'm pretty sure it runs us more than $400 a year for the two of us.
In most U.S. communities that provide water service there are actually 2 charges for water: one chg. for the municipality to deliver the water to the customer; another chg. to take it away (also known as a sewer bill). A real screw-job for folks who have in-ground irrigation systems. The water IS free but the delivery chgs. are real killers. The delivery chgs. from my well to the house is nil, and THAT is as free as it gets in today's world. AND, it is untreated with fluoride!
Dec 28, 2018 09:11:01 #
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...
When I think of the cameras I could have bought...
My condolences Jerry. I have owned two ranches in Colorado. On one the pump, like yours, just died. On the other lightning decided to strike my system and immediately fried the pump. Depth was close to yours. I don’t remember the cost but I do remember it being high. I could have bought a shotgun or rifle for the cost of just one pump.
Dennis
Dec 28, 2018 09:20:11 #
fourlocks wrote:
Jeez, Jerry that must be one helluva deep well or ... (show quote)
That's not an unusual price for pump work around here. If one charges a lot, why would others charge much less? If I were to take the time to get a bunch of estimates, I'd be without water for a week. They charged $90 to come to the house, and $100 to check the electrics. That will be deducted from the cost, but I wouldn't want to pay half a dozen guys $200 each for an estimate.
At the other end of the line, it would cost about $30,000 to put in a new drain field for the septic system. With the reservoir so close, NYC dictates how it must be done. Ah, life in the country!
Dec 28, 2018 09:21:40 #
I just talked to my daughter. She told me that they had a well pump replaced in a 250 foot well about 5 years ago. It was struck by lighting. The cost was if she remembers correctly around 1800.00 and her home owners ins. covered it.
Dec 28, 2018 09:23:53 #
Our county water costs $210 per year for our family of 5, (including a teenager who takes 2 20 minute showers every day!)
Dec 28, 2018 09:36:48 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
When I moved to NC, just outside Durham, I was surprised that there was no treated water utility district (cooperative, as we called them in Tennessee) outside the city limits so we had a well - over 300’ if I remember. The pump went out and when the repair service arrived they apparently couldn’t get the equipment close enough to to the well to raise the pump mechanically. The service guy was a pretty burly chap so he planted himself above the wellhead and hoisted the pump and at least 300 feet of pipe and cabling out of the well hand over hand. I was a bit impressed with his strength to say the least. Don’t remember what it cost me for that replacement - it was about 40 years ago.
Stan
Stan
Dec 28, 2018 09:51:49 #
We replaced a pump once on a house. We borrowed a pump jack from the fellow who originally put in the well. The jack kept the 8' pipe sections from sliding back down while we unscrewed 10 sections of pipe and finally got the pump out and replaced. I can tell you that steel pipe was way too heavy to pull up without the jack. 300' would have been impossible even with the jack. Our well people use a motorized jack on a truck. We were much younger when we did the one ourselves. Now we're glad to pay the well company.
Dec 28, 2018 11:14:05 #
I don't care what you well people say about how great a well is but I would just as soon pay the municipal district for water and sewer service rather than having to deal with a well and/or a septic system.
Dec 28, 2018 11:26:52 #
EdJ0307 wrote:
I don't care what you well people say about how great a well is but I would just as soon pay the municipal district for water and sewer service rather than having to deal with a well and/or a septic system.
OTOH I would rather have my well and septic system than pay for those utilities, plus free views of turkey and deer and other joys of rural life.
Dec 28, 2018 11:55:26 #
BlueMorel wrote:
We have deer and the occasional bear roaming around town plus free views of the mountains and Lake Tahoe is within a 30 minute drive without having to put up with well or septic tank maintenance. OTOH I would rather have my well and septic system than pay for those utilities, plus free views of turkey and deer and other joys of rural life.
But that's me, you can do what you want.
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