One trick I have learned is something that future owners/plumbers will thank you for is with any underground installation, I backfill a few inches then run a length of caution tape above the line. This way, when (not if) someone comes around digging in that area either looking for the line or doing something else, at least there will be some indication that they are approaching an underground utility. If you want to be really fancy you can add the detector tape with metal in it to make finding the line easy from the surface, but regular caution tape is plenty to get the point across.

It's not overkill, it's attention to detail.

The explanations, quality of work, and pride are amazing. Keep up the great work.

You folks are amazing tradesmen. Hard working and quality and attention to detail. Keep up the great work.

Another outstanding informative video. God Bless!

That door opened itself!... That's a Red flag 🚩... definitely haunted! 🐴

Beautiful work. Good job.

Love your shows , right on.

Solid video, thank you. I'd like to hear more about what pipes can be used where and how much psi they manage.

Your my second best show on utube/ alberta canada

Good job you guys!

Clean job brother ❤

You're do good at what you do and I find this so interesting. My well is over 700 feet down unfortunately. I've got 20 foot sections of PVC. They had to remove my fence and drive the crane into my back yard. . Our well only puts out 2gpm which sucks. And that was re-drilled by the prior homeowner. We went from a 3 wire that was tripping to a variable speed constant pressure setup. It's so much better. But hope it lasts. We've got a ton of manganese unfortunately . Wish you were around here. We need more honest experts. Love your videos. Jealous of these 70' wells!

Nice work!

Great work!

Great video. Love the new audio.

Great work... 🙂

Like the way you explain what you do any you do it that way.

Great information and explanations. I live in a rural area with well a municipal water but getting info on wells is difficult beyond reason. Thank you for the education.

Nice work !! And love the attention to DETAIL !! U hardly see that anymore these days with Contractors and Vendors !! I'm a new Subscriber 😊

Quality work and a quality video It's no wonder your work diary is full thru 2024 Building a business with a reputation for high standards of customer service - a pleasure to watch you working

Nice work Brother.

What a pro, im going to attempt the same job diy

what a professional, your video was entertaining and very informative. Thank You

Just watching you putting in water pipe and pump I'm surprised to see the final enspection and you don't have to put sand round pipe we here in Ireland have to put sand round pipe 6 inches under and over and minumen 2f 6in deep we go 3ft for frost pertection your doing great work every country has different specifications I also worked in England for 30 years higher specifications over there 👍 👍👍

Very nice job. You did a great job explaining each step in the process. Did you remember to get your shovel back?

Hell yes nice!

Did anybody notice how the ghost that probably lived on that land before that house was built was considerate enough to open the crawl space door for our man here??👻0:42

Now for THE question: Mr. H20 Mechanic - I'm a cheapskate and want a well for a heat pump. The soil where I come from is clay and the static water level is at about 4 meters (between 2 rivers - 46.384425117958884, 16.442514462512733). The water bearing layer is made up of sand and gravel. Should I even try boring my own well (I want a 5 Inch casing, 2 meters filter pipe length, need about 4,4 gpm)? And yes, the cheapskate has built his heat pump himself, if you're wondering. Great channel, I learned so much, thank you for sharing your knowledge and know-how.

Great work. Why no pressure relief valve on your tank tees?

To see down a well on a sunny day use a mirror to shi e the sun in the hole. I had a neighbor that drilled wells. He taught me how to find water with a L shaped wire.

How did you do the electrical and have it sit at the top of the well seal like that? Looks really professional. I'm a plumber and would love to do my installs that way.

Killing it bro but pls use the staples with the plastic insulation

Why are these videos so addictive?🤷‍♂️

When I watch electrical & plumbing videos on KZfaq, I am always rather amazed by how easy the work is being done. PLC pipe carrying drinking water buried in the ground, electrical wiring just running loosely here and there, etc. In my neck of the woods, all wiring inside a house must be in metal conduit, all drinking water pipe must be copper, buried water pipe, from well or B-Box (in the case of municipal water) must be thick wall copper, uninterrupted from one end to the other & no fittings except at the end and no buried elbows. But I gather that most parts of the country have looser rules in regard these things. Also, it must be nice doing the work in Virginia (BTW, I have friends living out in the country in the rural Petersburg area, where water pipe can be only a couple feet below the surface (although friends of mine in the rural Tucson AZ area have THEIR water lines running on the surface or just a couple inches below), whereas where I live in the upper midwest, water must be at least 5 feet down. I also wonder if deeper wells in Virginia have the radon issues like they do in my neck of the woods. Around here, in most places wells less than a couple hundred feet are usually OK, but a lot of deeper wells have radon coming up and expensive mitigation systems must be installed to prevent that radioactive gas from ending up inside the house, venting it out to the atmosphere instead.

What about putting the line in corrugated 4inch line so its not stuck in the dirt and could always be pulled again later. Also keeps weight directly off the line could help with rocks and such?

How can a subdivision with that many houses each have their own well. Where I live, they would have to have a community well. It's weird to me.

Nice work, hard work. You must be in the south as we have to be 4 feet deep and have to backfill with 6 inches of sand below and above the pipe to stop stone pressure from putting holes in the pipe as the ground here is extremely rockey. I have a question on the joining of the wire at the pump. We need to use special heat shrink fittings on the electric wire that when heated also seals at the ends of the fitting to the wire? Not the code there? We also have to use couplings 4 feet below the ground on the well casing (pitless adapter) so the pipes are never exposed to the cold. Does the builder ever leave a sleeve for your pipe and wire saving you from digging thru or under the foundation? Thanks for a great video.

Crawl space door just opens at the perfect time lmao

Three phase equipment or pumps are easy to diagnose. No special equipment needed just a simple multimeter. Also capacitors can and do go bad from heat.

A trick with great stuff that lets you reuse it get a can of spray carb cleaner as soon as you're done using it put the tube in the tip of the can and give it a quick spray it'll flush out the great stuff and then you can do the same thing with the handle and the plastic tube you reuse it once or twice when you do that just do it quickly

Another house without a basement. Where in tarnation do they store their Christmas decorations?

Would you recommend pex piping for well pipe?

For the residential area, how do you cover the well as it sticks out and is in the front yard??

I lived in Wisconsin with wells. 2 questions….. pitiless adapter and on/off switch at tank? Thanks for an informative video.

Great video, thanks. By the way, what's the specification and type electrical cable you used for the connection to the house?

Hi there. I love your videos. I installed my pump system myself a few months ago and now the system is not working. Would love your advice. My well is 131’ deep, static at 97, capacity 20gpm. I installed a Goulds 1.5hp 18gmp pump with a 1.5hp control panel and 40-60 psi pressure switch. Discovered no water and no pressure yesterday. When flicked the pressure switch sometimes sparks and sometimes doesn’t. You mentioned that could mean a faulty switch or a wire problem. I took the wires from the electrical box and connected it directly to the control panel (bypassing the switch) to see if the pump would fire up and it is not. Next I would test the wire connections from the ground wire to the submersible wire and pull up the pump to check other connections. What else should I consider?

For the ditch, would it be beneficial to put a layer of sand down below the pipe to help mitigate the risks you described?

In germany we generally use black PE (not pvc) as waterlines and bed them in sand/very fine gravel to protect them. So its not overkill to at least remove rocks

The kwickcut multi-tool

Did you get your shovel back?

Have you ever thought about using 1" PEX for your water line? PEX is very forgiving vs. rigid PVC. Just a thought. Price might be the deciding factor.

I would run HDPE from the well to the pump. The pipe is cheaper than pvc. You dont waste time gluing pipe. Hdpe wont break when frozen. Also, get a borit. Its a handheld boring device. Dig deeper on the outside. Drill under the footer at an upward angle. Then you dont have to dig in the crawlspace.

What is the best heat to use at the well head.

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I would like to see when you drill the well and see what screens you use

Do you put the supply electrical line in conduit before burying it or can you just bury it & use conduit only where it comes up out of the ground

Tractor supply pump and plastic fittings lazy pump installation

Can this setup with that type of pump be set up a a state like Maine? Awesome video loved watching you work, true pros!

Did you ever find out what the stray wire was from during the trench dig?

Share is your hot Wire from the electric panel.?

Are all the houses drawing off the same water source? Won't be pumping that much for long!

Is it necessary to replace my pump wire if replacing the pump if wire looks ok or should I dig in my emergency fund and buy a 100 foot? Thank you sincerely jeff

Hi there!! Very good videos, your explanations are awesome. I spent the whole weekend seeing your videos. Thanks a lot for your information. Have you got a link for buying black roll pipe? Thanks again!!!

Second question why not blue clear core. That's all we use in Montana. Major freeze thaw cycles. No fittings and unbelievable impact strength and flex.

They make this thing, it's called a tape measure. It does wonders when you need to measure.

Dump sand below and above before fill. PVC

Just a thought, why not have someone add about 10-15” to that auger? The idea is good, however I would make that one improvement. That way you can def get to the other side of a footer and hit it on the other side.

Beautiful work! Question: how come your elbow is different color as the pipe? Is schedule 80 for the elbow schedule 40 for the pipe?

Why you no melt coupling connection in this time electrical?

I remember another video of you where you admonished the use of electrical tape (which you seem to do here) rather than use fibre reinforced tape (which you’d have to cut and couldn’t tare as you did)

yup the reason you make a loop and NOT a 90 i strain relief ... it keeps the wires from bending constantly and breaking ... in a loop they spring and dont bend ...

Are you using Liquid-Tight flexible conduit for wire out of trench to junction box? I thought I had to use schedule 80 because this would be considered "subject to physical damage"???

I feel the install of the PVC pipe on top of the crawl space wasn’t what I would have done. Couldn’t you attach the PVC to the bottom of the floor joists?

How come y'all don't just measure the distance from the edge of the vent to where your hole was??

Is it a good idea to check for leaks before close the ditch

Why is there no vapor barrier under that new construction home?

You must be in a southern state, that would freeze in NYS

what state do you work in ?

that metal junction box is for indoors, thats the only thing i see wrong broski

I didn't see the water pressure test for leaks.

Is bedrock quite high in your area of business as it seems like you work in a lot of crawl spaces and also noticed most all are cinderblock wall foundations. In the area west I love most everything is a full basement with poured concrete walls. 🐢

That stinks you hit a wire... my guess would be that you have be very careful when doing this for a job and be 100% aware or the owner if they know where wires are before doing the trench. Thanks for the video.

Why do some well seals use a vent and sometimes just the blue plug?

My understanding was 3 wire is better because you can replace the starter, and the starter is usually the first thing to wear out, two wire or three.

I would've thought the footers would be much deeper. Maybe it was the camera.

You think that is a nightmare... could be in my area... where the frost line is about 8-10 ft... would need to have the pipe that deep in the ground

Are there 3 Phase well pumps? have you ever worked on one?

35:00 With you already having the trench so closely dug out right next to the well, I'm surprised you didn't go the extra mile and use a pitless adapter to keep the pipe at the same level as it is in the trench, so it doesn't have to come out of the ground exposed to cold air. Guessing it must not freeze there?

What kind of tape do you use that doesn’t contaminate the water?

Is there a way to set up a well just for water faucets and a pond? Without using a pressure tank? If we used something like a Rain Bird irrigation system, without the tank, I would still have to go by pass the System if I wanted to use a faucet?

Ok, he s just drilling an extra well under the house.

Fixing to have a local company out here in fort worth drill a well for me. I was wondering why I couldn't have them drill up next to my metal building, and have only the well head outside, and put the pressure tank assembly and water softener inside my shop. Every well vid I see, the well is pretty far from house. Including the video from 11 months ago where you abandoned the customers old well, drilled a new well pretty far from home by the street. Any suggestions before I commit to where the well head goes?

Instead of using tape, why not use tie tie’s? Just curious. Also great video’s and work.

Can you help me with the pipe please. I can't find a 500 ft roll of pipe anywhere around. Can you put a joint in the well. Just doesn't seem like the best idea

At 12:10 you're using that well seal. If you have a deep well with a system that weights over 400 pounds... is it going to hold it? what if it slips and drops in the well?

Is there any real reason they dont have the well drilled when the foundation is the only thing there, so that its easier for the well driller to get the pipe ran into the building?

why not the back yard?

You need your bottom smacked for leaving the power wire unsleeved in your trench.

All you need to do is put screenings in the ditch, done.