400 gallon storage tank in the basement and a jet pump feeding the house would also be a solution.. have the well feed the storage tank with a float switch and the jet pump and bladder tank feed the house..

Hello and greetings from Kanab Utah ... Quite a few of the folks out here in southern Utah have wells with this kind of performance. The solution for most of them is to invest in a potable water storage tank. They have gone up in price recently but everything else has also. If you get yourself a 2500 gallon storage tank you can fill it slowly and probably avoid running the well water levels real low. Thank you Philip for all your efforts. Respectfully, Utah Mike. 🤩👍

Love your channel!! You are a great teacher of your trade sir. Thanks for your honest workmanship! The world needs more honest men in the world. Keep up the good work. You tube is a better place with your channel. I'm sure many viewers will agree.

This is a complex and financially risky job right here and you made it simple and economical. And you filmed it. Friggin great job.

For anybody designing their own system, don’t forget to do a voltage drop calculation when deciding on wire gauge. If you cheap out on your wire size, the pump ends up not getting adequate voltage. The pump responds the only way it can, by increasing current draw, which may shorten the lifespan of the pump.

As a DIY home builder in Colorado, I dealt with this type of issues with a 2000 gallon cistern. Once filled, the pump never runs dry. So, a low flow pump in the well to a cistern, a 2 gallon pump in the cistern feeding the house, etc. just my thoughts based on my experience.

I’m an engineer and we design and install commercial systems. This guy is always spot on with his advice. Love watching your content 👍🏻

Wells are so intriguing. I had to move a well because of an addition. I was at 428' and it was perfect, never ran out, great quality. When they drilled the new well 25' away they went to 650' cause it wasn't making enough. I had to have it fracked and the iron level still hasn't stabilized, so much so the county health dept hasn't green lighted the new well. They just came for their 3rd test so I think it will pass this time.

Moved onto property with a well last year. Learned so much here. At least now if I have problems I can at least ask intelligent questions and probably tell if they're BSing me. Thanks!

I used to haul bulk water in rural areas. I had one customer that I occasionally would 'top up'..... they had a well that would draw down on a steady demand. They put in a precast cistern, with a low capacity pump that ran pretty steady filling the cistern (their reserve). The cistern had its own pump and then could meet peak demand. Ran that way for years.

Your channel is awesome me my dad and my brother in law replaced my well system last weekend and it was all galvanized stick pipe 150 ft down. Talk about a project. Keep producing good content and i will keep learning thank you!

Fun watching these videos. My well is around 200 ft deep. It makes great water and plenty of it, so I am fortunate. That being said, the previous pump failed because it fell off the pipe and sucked electrical tape into it. Using the right components is only half the job. The rest is the installation. (similar thing happened with my AC system at my previous house; poor installation eventually led to failure)

Grundfos is the best pump out there i used to do pump work

Nice job, All that previous fancy plumbing will come in handy for 2nd pump add-in. Have a great day

Great info!!

Thanks for the great knowledge

Very well researched and explained. Thank you for sharing

Very informative. Thanks

So much good info here!

Good Job!

I used the soft start Grundfos in my Son's 705 foot deep well. Best pump on the market. The slow ramp up allows a smaller wire size too, but do due diligence to size it correctly .

Awesome work. Makes total sense. Your one of the few.....

Love watching your channel, so many people have wells need people like you. Thank you for your service.

excellent vid

A man with a Plan !! 😁😁👍

Good move. Love how your future plan for the future of this install. Good judgement.

Great education, many thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm still waiting to do my first one in Uganda, probably in another week or so. Your education is helping me a lot before I start my first well with a submersible pump. Thanks a bunch

Good job

Yes great idea take the not great water and use it for garage and hoses then keeping the cleaner water for household use is a great idea. Plus if the smaller well does dry up it's just a few connection in the house to switch it over to the other one

Great video. What about a storage tank to draw from while the 1 1/4 gpm well can recover the usage... sounds like a solid plan. Enjoy your videos very informative

I ;ove your channel. You are an honest professional and you help your customers out as much as possible. Thank You for be honest and teaching others about your work. May The Lord Bless You in all that You Do!!!

great content! cant wait to see u pull the hack job out of the well down hill.

That’s some deep wells

I have purchased from him... he is so patient especially with my mistakes:)

From all of your videos I've watched so far,you seem like a pretty "Fracking" good guy.

Have a well in show low arizona old windmill minus tower, sucker rod pump still in 6inch casing i hooked up old pump jack and made small Aframe to lift warer pumps at 3.5 gpm 220v motor 2.5" pulley on motor 11" pulley in pump jack. Watching your channel has been awesome. Keep it up And thank you

Why can I not stop watching these? I don't even have a well! I wonder if the city will let me drill one, lol.

Incredible the amounts of money that people can invest, without knowing exactly how to do a proper installation. What I like about your videos is the technical information of the parts used to install the system. In addition, you show us the installation errors of other companies (which you correct). Now what about the pump (impeller) that is disintegrating. This company that installed it, does not know much about the applications of each pump. But knows how to shell out the money from people who know nothing about self-contained water supply. Thank you for all this good information.🍻🍻

Another advantage of the Grundfos pump is that since it ramps up slowly, you can run it from a smaller genny than you might expect. Great job and video, sir. Take care and God Bless.

Irrigation tech here, unrolling the poly is easily a 1 man job. Leave the roll in the sun for 30 minutes, secure the one end, walk backwards and “hump” the pipe to unroll it. Basically hip check up to bump it up and the natural tension of the roll with help. Already hot pipe is easy to work with. Been unrolling those rolls alone for years. 1.5” poly gets a bit difficult but is still doable

My thought on the 3hp 3phase pump is that it was not sized correctly for the well. I had the same issue with my well. I was was explained to me by a well pump expert that proper calculations need to be done so that the head pressure is correct. This will help keep the impellers centered in the pump assembly and prevent the impellers from wearing out.

Man nice outcome, Very tough to own a home with limited water and high cost to get it.

I've always had excellent results with Gould pumps. The brand you promote has a well known defective check valve problem and the variable start up circuits fail constantly. Best to go with standard well built. And I find Gould is sturdier and more heavy duty

someone took advantage of them sad. glad they got you

I would put in a holding tank nearby and also a pump protection device for well pump, slightly chlorinate well with a paristalic feeder, but good job, since I’m in the biz also for a bit, 25 yrs in the ca sierras💦

place your "doubled" hose clamps heads 180 degree apart and opposite directions from each other or at minimum 90 degree. why? some times they can seep a bit and cause a weak/thin spots at the worm gear head when side by side. 😁 I learned the hard way over the years.

Ok here is what I did with a low volume well, I have my well pump feed a 2000 gal cistern tank the gravity feed my house, with a cheaper pump to feed house pressure. The well pump controller has no load shutoff plus cistern float switch and timer that turns well pump on 3 times in 24 hrs, or when needed. For about 15 mins as the well will run dry if run longer than about 25 min. This has worked for years for a domestic house. Plus water for garden and lawn. I will run out if I forget and leave water on, oops. Enjoy your videos and very informative contents, very good store with reasonable prices.

4:23 I install 1/2 hp 5gal per min Goulds pumps up to 300 ft all the time, some of them I replace r up to 60yrs old, 4:40 we service a 900ft well with the black roll pipe

Hi. You could make some small water storage in the basement. a 250 gallons of water cube would give the well plenty of time to refill

If they did not have the second well, a 1000 gallon cistern would also have solved the problem of a gallon a minute producing well. 24x60 is 1440 gallons a day. The cistern acts like a buffer, during high usage periods, but refills during the time water is not in high demand. My neighbor had that problem, and a cistern solved it for them. A separate pump at the bottom of the cistern supplies the pressure tank inside the house. The well pump output flows directly into the cistern and a float connects to cutoff switch for well pump. Pump is protected by a separate circuit monitor that shuts off pump I’d it runs dry. The cistern cost $5000 installed with its own pump. pulling that deep well pump at 580 feet and replacing it will a pump at 300 feet was probably way less expensive than installing a cistern.

it's very possible the well with 580' deep pump may draw down to below the 300 foot level on high GPM usage or in dry climate periods. but it's possible they overkilled it ten fold thinking they were saving themselves a headache, all while causing them(seeing the single small bladder tank size!).

Three wells, Well Well Well

Low volume sulphur wells are common around here. Everyone has large capacity (500-3000 gallon) storage tanks to air out their water.

Great video! Filled with tons of information! I love your content. Just had one question. You said 1/2 hp pump is only good for 120 feet? My old house well was 3 gpm at 240 feet and had a 1/2 hp pump. My parents house is just about 300feet and also has a 1/2hp pump. How and why would the driller do this?

Love watching your stuff! Have you ever heard of the Well Manager system for low yielding wells?? Any thoughts on it if so? And how far north into central VA do you travel to jobs?

A pentek intellidrive pid 30 wouldve worked. takes single phase in and converts to 3 phase. Those are much better than the f&w. For future reference. We've ran into those 3" pumps at those depths can blow holes in the poly near the pump from building heat.

Love the channel, which you were in the Texas Hill Country. In this specific case why not install a large bulk tank and draw off that? We have a low producing well and pump into a 5000 gal tank ant then pump into a standard pressure tank configuration.

Tried to lift my pump thats on a pitless 156ft well. 1-1/4" Schedule 120 PVC pipe. Two men lifting could barely get it off the pitless. Had to go get the excavator to lift it out a few feet...After that I realized I needed a different approach to the job.

Many of the wells here in the Phoenix area are 1000ft +

Try drilling thru vertical rock fissures for Primary Water.

use the 3 ph for the farm stuff and other for house just have to replumb lol

I know this is some time ago but just found your channel now. Wasn't there another well (not the one with the 3 fase pump) that you could try to frack also and then tie it together with the other one you fracked. Maybe this would give enough water so you didn't have to use the one with the sulfer ?

I hope when you change the other pump and replum you make a video

FYI - Lowes and Home Depot (at least in my area) no longer offer wire-by-the-foot if you want more than about 25 feet. They'll refer you to buy 100/500/1000 foot boxes/reels. Also VERY IMPORTANT - now that they insist on you checking out before you can touch the wire you bought, be sure to inspect it IMMEDIATELY after checkout, before leaving the store. I got home with the pre-bagged wire they handed me and found out someone had sliced thru a bunch of the insulation and a bunch of it was unusable, but once leaving the store became a he-said she-said headache of "how do we know you didn't damage it".

Two questions, Taping at the pump, have you ever considered a nice piece of heat shrink over that section? Low well output, I wondered if a small cistern would have made any difference in useful capacity?

Great channel! The information is easy to understand and very helpful. I need some advice. Any experience with using a lake for supply. Currently using well pump in a weighted rack resting 18” off the lake bed ~40’ below the surface & ~250 from the house. I’m replacing all 250’ of 1”/200psi tubing due to a break in the buried line from the house to shoreline. By the way, 150’ heat tape that extends well beyond the ice line in winter. Thanks

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I just bought a house in Texas with a “Capped” well… that got me started watching your channel to learn about repairing & drilling wells. Next thing I knew I was binge watching because the work you do is so fascinating and complex. I have many videos to watch still, but as I was watching you work with a well that only put out a gallon a minute I was wondering, why not have a large storage tank that the well can be filling during the night or other low usage times?

Good show. That water level measurement sounder you have what is the make and where could I buy one.

Should I continue with a single well for two residents and how can someone solve the calcium or lime build up? My well is only 125’

Just ibstall antank and then theyll have reserve and able to use the good water well.

Hi New comer to your videos I am intrigued that all the well you work on are DEEP 300 + feet deep! I live in Queensland Australia and in our area most bores are less than 200ft. Do you use a water diviner , if not how do you know where to drill ? Regards Neil

Great video. Why don’t you also include footage showing the new plumbing work inside? Thanks

would like to see videos on geothermal or other type wells used with hvac?

I would be curious if the other well close to the house is too close to the other well to use if it could be fracked and brought up to the same standard as that well and possibly both wells fed into a buffer tank

Sometimes a buffer tank is the only option. 500 gallons should be sufficient.

Any thought of installing a 500 to 1000gallon tank to take the well water and a small pressure pump to run the house . A float switch for the well will keep tank the topped up and the house will not run out of water easily. Should be significantly cheaper than sorting out the far deep well

16:26 that tiny well tank for a large house, deep well and giant pump, what were they thinking? top that off with no surge/lightning protection! oh right, sales/repair of new pumps/controllers and labor... 🙃

I appreciate your videos so much and have learned a lot, but theres definitely missing steps here and there and it makes it very hard when it may be a simple step for you, but it leaves people who don’t have the experience and the knowledge confused. For example in this video, how did you attach the pipe to the pump? What do you need to do to prep the heat wire splice? Do you twist the wires together or just but the ends together? Is there another piece that goes under the shrink plastic part? Or did I just miss that part?

Nice to know this stuff but would rather hire you to do the job

The goonzquad guys have a well problem it would be nice to see a collaboration with them

Why not put a double size pressure tank or just add another one. Increase the storage and perhaps they will be able to have enough during the day and it will refill at night?

Can you create more storage from the 1 gal well? Multiple pressure tanks ???

quick question.I have a 588 foot well, how many psi do you recommend me to use?sorry I'm talking about the pipe?

This video is terrific! Question on the filter placement. Should the filter be after the tank on any system?

Give thought to “upsizing” the motor to the pump. Electric utilities routinely reduce voltage in periods of high demand. The oversized motor runs better under these conditions. Is there a 240 vac single phase softstart available for residential wells? I would rather have electronics above ground for ease of replacement.

Hey jus prescribed to your channel, about how long would it take for an well to clear up or if would be any good for a out door hand pump. Because they did road construction an were trying to level out a hill in the road an they were blasting an some as they finished about 1-2 days our well water went really bad it was un-drinkable so they hooked us up to a waterline coming from the main water tower an some days the chlorine taste is really bad

Hey got a question I thought u I never used heat seal wire connectors but used so type of tape. What has changed.

Check out performance pipe, pthey specialize in HDPE pipe

what about fracling the 3rd well and see if it will augment the 1st well.

I have a deep well 75 feet,I can`t pull out the 1" pvc pipe out of it ,to change the check foot valve,so normally how they charge for pull out the pipe and change the check foot valve?

Quick question (hopefully 😅) I have a four wire controller, but only three wires hooked up running down hole (missing ground). Do I need a three or four wire pump to replace the existing pump? I've been getting low out put...no leaks in system. I just filled up a five gallon bucket in 1:22 (at the well head before the check valve) does that seem normal?

Can you please tell me if the rubber inside the well seal is the one holding the entire system or is it the 90 degrees copper fitting and the clamps keeping it suspended?

Did you solder the splices? I definately would.

60 years ago my grandparents got a well drilled, about 60m (180') deep, water is at 18m (54'), the pump at 24m (72'), this was/is back in Germany. For the house itself my parents use city water, the well is for watering the garden. It has a 1.5kW 3-phase pump, the current one is probably in the well for > 20 years, and the house is connected to 3-phase 400V. We were never able to run the well dry although we drew in excess of 4000 liters (1000gal) per hour for several hours. I'm really wondering why in Virginia the wells don't make more water.

Wow that's insane cost for such unnecessary 3 phase equipment, I always recommend standard pumps and tanks. Yep that there is what I like to call "Cat Hair" so yep always a bad sign the pumps GG. You gotta love it when they put a filter between the pump and tank "It never had a problem before" Oh it will! I find it better to have cartridge filter after say a carbon filter as it can catch any carbon dust also just like you did. You could always install a standard 120 gallon glass lind or fiberglass tank with a aerator to reduce the H2s almost completely without filtration. This would lower the pump output to say 5-7 gpm and add about 15 psi of backpressure through the micronizer but is a very good way to remove H2s. You would also gain a 60 gallon reserve in the tank to about 10 psi if pump won't keep up where the bladder tank will only give you 10 gallons drawdown.

How long after shocking a well with the pool shock can you drink the water?

At what point do you need a torque arrestor? Or is it not needed? Awesome content!

Question.... I have a 50ft well drilled in the 70s with a 17ft head. I assume they figured that was enough at the time, but, I dont trust it to supply large amount of water (just bought the property, havnt tested it, needs a new pump).. I want to put a system on the pump that detects load so when /if the pump runs dry, it is detected and shuts off automatically. Assuming the well will not produce enough water for a good long shower, I want to get a BIG holding tank and let it fill over time to capacity, so there is plenty of reserve. My question is, whats better, 2 40 gallon tanks or 1 80 gallon tank? I know more parts, a little more price with 2, but on a performance standpoint, curious which is better? Thanks.

I was always taught to fold over maybe 8 inches of wire the first foot or so before taping. I guess it allows it to be pulled if the wire gets too tight but if it’s taped a lot it wouldn’t ever pull anyways. Do you leave any slack in the wire at all?