How to dig YOUR OWN BACKYARD WELL 40 feet deep

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6 ай бұрын

Drill your own DIY water well using a pressure washer and PVC pipe
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@me-sd1sq 6 ай бұрын

Awesome project, the pump plumbing video would be appreciated.

@dianew1966 6 ай бұрын

Great job!!

@adamsoutdoors 6 ай бұрын

I like it!! May have to give it a try.

@curtisjacobs2694 Ай бұрын

Excellent video, thank you!

@Dancing_Alone_wRentals 6 ай бұрын

That was most cool. tHanks for the video. (I've wanted to drill horizontally to put in a drain. The idea is to go about ten feet and end up with a 4" pipe. My problem: I think about it too much and don't experiment with drilling techniques. tHanks again for the video!)

@sm-gv2kk 19 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@aliciaezell6166 3 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉ty very much for this informative knowledge

@sm-gv2kk 21 күн бұрын

how did you make or where did you get the pressure washer lance / extension from? thank you for sharing this video!

@BadHomeowner 21 күн бұрын

They're available on Amazon, I used these: amzn.to/3UtVPxB

@congoparrot 6 ай бұрын

in my state, the well has to be permitted by the States dept of engineering. then after that you have to fight the county.

@oldschoolautoupholstery 2 ай бұрын

Hi, Is there a separate video yet for the plumbing? I think I will invest and try your methods.

@BadHomeowner 2 ай бұрын

I will work on getting that out

@oldschoolautoupholstery 2 ай бұрын

Hi, Question, Could you have just skipped the 20 feet of 4-inch pipe, since the 2-inch went down beyond that, then the 1 1/4-inch down further beyond that? Thanks!

@BadHomeowner 2 ай бұрын

Yes you could. I wanted a 4 inch casing to make the initial digging somewhat easier, and in order to install a well cap (which comes in 4 and 6 inch sizes) to keep out debris and stabilize the 1-1/4 in pipe. And some areas may require a casing of a certain diameter if you want it to be "legit". But no it's not technically required.

@me-sd1sq 6 ай бұрын

How much water do you estimate you used with jetting and other water you used? I would like to do this in an area without water, but wondering if its worth trucking in that much water. Thank you

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

Hard to tell exactly, but I'd estimate less than 200 gallons based on the amount of time the pressure washer was running.

@me-sd1sq 6 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner sounds good, that's an easy amount of water to bring. Thank you

@cheetahb5 2 ай бұрын

What is the wand that you sent down the well pipe? Do you have a link to it?

@spiritvisionart Ай бұрын

power washer

@BadHomeowner 5 күн бұрын

Right here: amzn.to/3wJymkm

@nealnelson9309 2 ай бұрын

Did you use a blader tank?

@TravisWebbUSA 2 ай бұрын

Yes, it's a 7 gallon pressure tank

@Floutlaw87 10 сағат бұрын

How did the galvanized pipe and hand pump get put in?

@BadHomeowner 10 сағат бұрын

I dug a hole and stuck it in there! It's connected to the well pump.

@Floutlaw87 10 сағат бұрын

@@BadHomeowner ahh I see

@roswellbeau3894 12 күн бұрын

I wonder what kind of filtering would be needed to make this potable. RO?

@murraygrigg 9 күн бұрын

Depends on the water. Amazon has water test kits to find tds and specific ions. Water treatment for solids is easy but high tds requires more work to make it potable. Water for outside use is ok below 1,000 tds but water for house drinking is likely 200 ppm or less. Iron leaves staining and needs to be removed if it is high. There is quite a bit involved depending on your situation.

@BadHomeowner 5 күн бұрын

Yea I may get it tested here soon, just for kicks. I doubt it's drinkable, and I'm not sure if it can be filtered enough to be drinkable. But I'll figure that out at some point!

@DCDOfficial2024 12 күн бұрын

Where did you buy the well point in europe?

@BadHomeowner 5 күн бұрын

I am in the US so I don't know where you'd get one in EU.

@justthinkalittle8913 6 ай бұрын

dude, you may live in the only part of the world where you could do what youre doing. if i get down "10 before hitting silt stone and expanding clay. its wild to see soil that deep.

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

I went through quite a lot of hard clay, but no rock luckily.

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

@@carmichaelmoritz8662 where? there's no city water involved here.

@DICEGEORGE 6 ай бұрын

Are there no rocks down there?

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

Not where I am on the East Coast, here it's alternating layers of sand and clay. In rocky areas you may have more difficulty with this approach.

@drescherjm 6 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner Ahh, For me in south western PA if we dig 6 inches we will likely hit shale so it won't work here.

@user-et3wx9jn8u Күн бұрын

@@BadHomeowner around where are you located on the east coast?

@jimsjacob 6 ай бұрын

I've wondered about doing something similar. CA wants to control that however. They don't want you using anything without getting a taste of it themselves. Have you had the water tested? Wondering about what may have leached into a water table that shallow...

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

I haven't tested it, but it's unlikely I'd use it for drinking anyway. I ended up using it for my outdoor hoses and to run a sprinkler system. City water is very expensive here!

@jimsjacob 6 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner Yep! Thought the same things for usage if I did something similar. Water costs keep going up and up here too, regardless of the amount of rainfall…

@jimsjacob 6 ай бұрын

@@carmichaelmoritz8662Maybe if politicians would stop misappropiating funds and spending more money than they tax, they wouldn't have to create myths like, "global warming/climate change" in order to take more and more of our money.

@jasonclay6218 13 күн бұрын

What they don't know won't hurt them. I never tell the government anything about what I choose to do on my property.

@poke_hoard422 6 ай бұрын

I would have actually laid the PVC on the roof and stood higher on the ladder to get more vertical pressure but well done all in all

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

Yea that is probably a better idea -- since I have the roof there might as well use it!

@poke_hoard422 6 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner yea let it do the hard work lol and it's at a decent angle already to guide it right in!

@chaseme9860 6 ай бұрын

8:59 At close to 40 ft. you're just cork-screwing the entire length of PVC at this point, not turning it at the bottom (or turning at a coupling, since you didn't use primer). FYI, at only 40ft, don't ever drink this water. I wouldn't even put my hands in it, because its going to be full of pesticides and herbicides. A good future project would be switching to steel pipe and see if you can get to a potable-safe depth. This would probably require a gas-powered machine. Nice job.

@BadHomeowner 6 ай бұрын

FYI the yellow cement doesn't need primer. You're right I definitely don't want to drink from any shallow well -- I'm using this for irrigation only.

@chaseme9860 6 ай бұрын

@@BadHomeowner That type of cement is for CPVC, not PVC.

@bud5084 2 ай бұрын

Orange is for cpvc, he used a correct glue, look at HD your next trip.

@chaseme9860 2 ай бұрын

@@bud5084 wrong

@thewisecracker-rq1pu Ай бұрын

LoL! "..wouldn't even put my hands in it..." LoL! There's more chemicals in city water than there is in well water! After being filtered through at least 6 feet of earth, well water is cleaner than a lake you swim in and far cleaner than the ocean! And if you're still worried, boil it for 10 minutes! City people... I tell ya.... Geezus! This is a great video!