Jeanne and I completed the project.
The Project: Water Line to the House
We trenched (2’ - 7’ deep) and ran 275’ (84 meters) of 4” PVC pipe with 1” poly pipe and 10/3 Romex wire inside the entire length. It’s stubbed out at the wellhead and right behind the house. As you can see, there is a “hump” of soil over the water line. This adds more insulation to prevent freezing in the winter. Over the next two months, I’m going to have soil brought in and make the mounds even larger.
The electrical wire will allow me to put a breaker in the box for the well pump. Right now, we have a solar pump installed and working now (a nice RPS pump) but will convert to a 220 AC deep well pump when the house goes up in October.
This would be considered our first big job on the building site. It was taxing a bit. Dirty (dusty, very dry here) every day. We feel good about it. The next project is a Well House/Tool Shed/Shower and Water Access Building. A 10’ x 10’ simple (2x4 16” center) structure, insulated and powered. The wellhead will be insulated and the run of pipe we did today won’t freeze at the exit in the well-house. I have a place to keep commonly used tools, too. There will be a 55 gallon (208 liters) HDPE water drum on the outside of the structure that you can get drinking/washing water from if you are camping on our land. And finally, there will be a shower on the backside of the structure. Again, for campers or guests to use.
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