That was a great video. I have to do this to my well and now I am confident that I can do this correctly! Thank you!

Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a detailed video, this really helps a lot! Many blessings 🙏🏽

I'm in Florida and I have well water and I've been reading and studying and watching videos how to disinfect my well I called up a couple of well companies that specialize in well water and they want $300 to come out and disinfect my will... Well well I went to the grocery store I bought some Clarox went to the pool store And bought some shock I'm doing it myself.... After everything that I did and follow the instructions on the video my water is beautiful smells great looks great all is good I will be doing this once a year you bet you're sweet as I will you'll take care now and listen to this man he knows what hes talking about.. God-bless and happy drinking well water again

Hi Pete Ash here from Queensland Australia. This is No. 100 of your KZfaq Videos. I have been watching all of them from the beginning. Keep up the good work 👍

This is an excellent video! It’s very thorough and easy to follow. I love how you are walking us through step by step.

Interesting. I appreciate folks like you who make these videos. I had mine shocked just because we never knew when it was last done thanks to not being the original owner. Turns out our water was already fine (pulled a sample for testing pre-treatment), but I wanted to do it so we knew. I wasn't quite clear on how to flush it all out afterwards though.

Fantastic, factual presentation. Easy to follow. I have had wells and treated them myself for over 50 years. This is the most complete and factual presentation I have seen. Great job.

Just re-watching your video to refresh my mind for another treatment. Again, thank you fellow Texan; you have done a great job explaining the procedure clearly. Well done.

Got my water test results back today. Negative for e-coli but positive for coliform. We've had a ton of rain the last month. I'm surrounded by pasture land. Going to shock my well tomorrow just like you did. Many thanks.

Thank you so much for this wonderful video! I’ve been dealing with sulfur for 5 years. I’m going to follow your instructions, which were very clear. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you so much for showing me how to do this step by step! Thanks to your video I feel a lot more comfortable with having to do this myself.

We have a well that feeds our spigots outside. Been dealing with a lot of iron bacteria sludge since our new pump was installed and this video has been tremendously helpful.

Very good tutorial! Thank you. I am new to well water systems. Been on city water for about fifty years now. I think Lowes should be sponsoring your channel 😅

Thank you for sharing how to do this. I'm reviving a well and this info is very helpful.

Thanks so much. Just got a new property and put in a well. Had it tested and it was contaminated. Now I can do the job myself.

We use to drill wells up here in ohio for 30 years. We use to use hth swing pool pills. We would drop 12 pills in well let sit for half hour. Then circulate water with garden hose in to well till you smell chlorine. Then go inside do something to every place you can get water. Let sit 24 hours. Run garden hose till you can't smell chlorine. Do same thing inside. If you want to help septic tank heat water to110 degrees take half cup of yeast add to hot water. Let set for 15 minutes then flush down toilet. Everything he said is true we did it a little different.

Your presentation and procedure are exactly how it should be done. Really excellent video, excellent presentation. Refreshing to see an internet video with correct worthwhile information. I treated water for thirty years in that time I seen all kinds of wrong ways to treat water. Thanks!

Thanks I just did this a week ago and used more shock than I needed. Such a pain in the ass. Your video is great so thanks again.

Best video explanation I've seen on this. First time using well water and its been 5 months of combating the iron bacteria after a really bad Florida flood. This video saved our butt! Thank you

I own a house I bought a few years ago, it was built in 1994. As far as k know the previous owner never shocked the well. I'm getting the water tested this week and I might have to do this. We are in central BC Canada and my well head is a 6 inch metal pipe with a lid bolted on, not sure how deep it is. But will probably need a lot of bleach.

Life saver, English isn’t my first language and I understood so “well”😊 ready to disinfect my water as a pro. Thanks for your time.

Wow! Thank you for this great video Pete!! Just had well deepened and tested positive for Coliform. Will be using your method. Getting tired already 😀

I'm glad to see you rinsed the casing after bleaching. Bleach will rust out casing and if you have a pitless adapter, good luck getting it apart in 10 years. Great video.

Here in 2022. I am also on well water (and septic tank) for 35 years now & I have never heard of shocking wells before. I live in the Willamette Valley here in Oregon (Pacific Northwest). We don't have animal farmlands nearby, they are probably at least a couple miles away, probably even more like 5 or 10. Our water also has iron bacteria but probably not coliform. We use the well water only for washing dishes, hands & showers. We stopped using it for laundry maybe 2 decades ago, but I may restart that although only use it once a month on average for the laundry. However, for potable drinking & cooking, we buy bottled water & also bring in ~10 gallons or so of city tap water in empty gallon jugs every other week from our second home at another town an hour away to this home with well water. We have not tested our water in decades & we have never had whole-house filtration (we used to have one faucet filter long ago) & our water softener broke 2 decades ago, so yeah we have been using straight unfiltered well water for that long. It's been ok, we haven't gotten sick, we're trying to save money, but it does stain the toilets & stuff, but I clean the toilets & the faucet grills every once in a while. Anyway this is nice new information for me & it makes me wonder if this is necessary or unnecessary in my scenario/situation. I am planning to get a whole-house spin-down filter trap to catch sediment/sand which we also see that in our water, so that at least that does not bog down the septic tank of accumulated sand over time, which again now has been 35 years, so I have to wonder what the potential dwindling of space volume that our septic is at now due to sand, which hopefully is still ok too.

Great video, THANK YOU!!! I am a new home-owner in michigan, new to well water so this is great info. My wife been freaking out about this kind of stuff.

Nice job with the wireless microphone so the audio is excellent. Also great job with the info.

Great information I did not have an idea about water wheal but I will do that on my property on my cabin thanks .

I definitely learned something in this video. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for sharing I'm going to try it this way.

Clear presentation. Good job!

Great video, I'm in Canada so my well is a little bit different, but I can use your method just fine. Thanks

It's been a bit of time since the video was made but thankyou for the information.

Great video, very informative. Keep up the good work!

Great video, best info I have watched on this subject .... Thank you!

Thanks , Great info ! I am also having the same problem in W. Colorado at my survival training tipi camp , 7,000 ft. in canyon .No cattle, no homes near , well 7--9 yrs old , seldom use water. Only for firec safety. Students bring bottled water. ( probably the problem. I should max flush a couple times a yr. no doubt. ) There are no openings in my system for critters, etc. My hand pump gives me crystal clear, but Lab says it is NOT. The elec pump gives me red , rusty water. I have been max flushing well 24 hrs a day ! I will try your idea. Thanks! Mtn Mel , Ret USN SERE/VN.

Great information and detailed procedure! My only question is: Now that we have meticulously and painstakingly sterilized and sanitized our entire well water system from end to end, exactly why are we re-installing scanky, old, contaminated used water filters back into our system?

Very throughly explained. Thank you.

Thank you for the video very informative walkthrough

What about the affect the bleach could have on the pressure tank bladder - which is made of rubber?

If you have PEX tubing for your water lines inside your house, turn off your water heater and let it cool before chlorinating your well. They say PEX tubing will last 50 years, but exposure to hot, heavily chlorinated water can damage the tubing and may significantly shorten the life of the tubing. I haven't experienced or seen this, just something I read about using PEX tubing.

Thank you best explanation out of all the videos!

Really great video, i did something similar years ago to my parents well pipe. I might read up on the chlorinating the brine pellets. My softeners manual says it degrades the pellet media. Just an fyi. Again. Great job.

Thank you for making this video brother, helped me tremendously!

Wow that was great A lot of maintenance & up keep

Great video. I would recommend adding the water to the bucket before the bleach so if it splashes up it's diluted

Thanks so much. Very well done.

Septic tank question can you add a chemical like ridex back into your tank?

Thank you! That was very informative.

Thanks Pete! The video was VERY helpful. And no b.s. either.

Any cast iron pipes can also add iron to your water also cat iron pipes can rust closed where you can lose water pressure. If it's before the gauge your pump works harder if it's after the gauge you won't have any water pressure in the house

Thank you so much for this video I needed it

Great video...well done

My well has a pump, and a person can climb down into the well, like 7 or 8 feet. Is it okay to just dump a few gallons of bleach water right into the well housing?

It is amazing

I did this to my well that smelled like rotten eggs...amazing transformation back to great water. thank you!

Thank you for that side note about bleach and septic tanks. Had no clue

Nice well :) and yes, thank you for the info.

Great post, thanks.

Hi all, I have a new well and the water is slightly salted. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks

if you got a filter at the pump house why remove house screens does this means your piping is compromised /old p.s the only way to flush hot water tank is to drain it all out ?not just run water thru it

What if you have a underground storage tank with the well which is what I have. Is it the came process? Or do I have to put bleach in storage tank as well. I think it's a 2000 gal tank and my well is 500 feet deep. Thanks

Thank you.

Thanks Pete!

Great job !

I bought 2 new garden hoses, 2 gallons of unscented bleach & I am going to do this "re treat" my self, following your directions, then I will get a bottle from the place that tests water, and I will see what the water test will say. I will let you know when the test returns. Thanks!!

We are almost ready to close on our new home and it has a well. Water smells like sulfur. Will shocking it get rid of that?

Hi thank you so much for your video do i have to bypass the bladder tank for this ??

Thank you

thought for sure you were going to spill.......... w the funnel........ well done!

Great video 👍

I live in northern Washington state. We are on a well newly drilled within the last 3 years. Our well is roughy 480ft deep. How much chlorine/bleach should I use to shock my well?

Anything special to do for electric water heater?

Wow. In Texas your pressure tank can be outside. Guess I've been living in the north country too long.

Great info

thank you

I believe I'll do something a bit different. ie put a drain pipe with a shut off just before the septic tank. Allow all the bleach water to flow out there until it's clean. I'm old and carrying all those 5 gallon buckets around seems a bit much. Think Jandy diverter valve.

Great job

My concern that it turns commode light orange n dark orange in some places. I sits in white plastic bowl overnight turns bowl iron orange

My well needs to be chlorinated. I was told the water has to run for four days to clear the lines. I really appreciate your video, especially taking care not to damage the septic tank. My question is what price can I expect to pay for this service to be done?

Great video

Not all bleach is the same. They now sell types with very little chlorine. Read the back and look for the info on disinfecting. Great Vid!

Really appreciate all the care and info you put into this video! I'm not sure what's going on with my well yet, just want to be prepared and glad I came across your video. My water was left off for about a month and lines drained (living elsewhere and winterized the lines to not freeze). Now the water gets a weird webby looking growth in it when left to stand over night in the sink. I'll be taking a sample to get tested, and don't really know if I'll be able to get this process done if I need to, but need to do something!... Freezing temps don't make it nice. Any recommendations? Thanks again!

What do you suggest with water in the washing machine?

For some reason Bleach is still in my well. Been running pressure tank garden hose outside for 3 hours. I put 1 gallon of Disinfecting bleach in well last night. It’s 7in casing 475 feet down. Water level at 50 feet or so. Going to keep well going for now. Hopefully Clears up soon. I’ve got 50-70 psi 13 gallons a minute.

Should mention unscented bleach at beginning alot of people dont watch whole video but great info

Im impressed with your water pressure. You must have a good pump huh?

Me and wife wife argued on opening outside faucets first. She's a know it all. I went back to your video to remind her how we'd did it 6 months ago. Even down to the small casing hole. She did buy a ventilated screw for casing head. Said it lets gas escape.

Can you use the shock made for pools?

You might want to check out dechlorinators instead of draining your toilet tanks. They sell them to aquarium and pond owners. A few drops in your tank is all it would take. I use a cap full to dechlorinate a 55 gallon garbage can full of water for my backyard nature pond. Supposedly just letting the water sit for a day or two will cause the chlorine to evaporate, but that pertains to normal chlorinated tap water and I am not sure how effective that would be for the high concentration you use. Your charcoal filter also does the job. I hear that pool chlorine (12%) is better due to lack of additives used in laundry bleach. There's more in that stuff than just scent. A friend of mine has a pool cleaning business and he told me that years ago which made me want to comment just to share that tidbit. It might be more expensive, but you are fastidious in your work and it seems to be something you would want to investigate. Love your channel by the way. I am always happy to see new content from you. You have a nice presentation style that is very appealing to regular guys who just want to learn something in a relaxing and informal manner. Stormy Sounds is right about your potential, but YT is full of click bait which makes it hard to compete. I would love for you to take us on a tour of your property and share your long term plans. I find it very interesting. I also like hearing about and learning from your past experience in the tool trade. Your drill sharpening video was fantastic. It is great to learn from a person with years of experience in any field. Thank you for your hard work!

GOOD

Doing this now hope help with the rusty water

Great Video well done thank you....

Out here in CA we are not allowed to contaminate the aquifer with bleach. You would need to do chlorine injection at the surface into the house.

Could this be done to a shallow well about 30ft deep? 3" casing. Just circulate the well without sending it into the house? Do I let it sit for 24hrs before I begin to flush the well?

what ABOUT OPEN WELL ..HOW TO DO

I've lived here for 18 years & looked at my papers and my well casing is 4" and the well is 48 ft deep, I have an iron cap, I don't thin the cap is sealing very good & I should replace it, what do you recommend or should I have a plummer come change it, I want a well cap with a good seal, the cap on it now has no rubber gasket at all & the bolts but one are 'frozen'. Thanks for any help & your video is very informative, yes I did sub to your channel.

Thank you for the great info. + Question: I have purchased a house cross country. I won't be able to move in for a year. Should I do this when I visit or should I just wait till next year. Granted I will only visit once till I move next year. Hope this makes sense and any advice would be appreciated. 👍

How far away from your well are the surrounding properties with livestock? We have a couple of small cattle ranchers about 3000' feet east of our well and nothing but a national park north and west and forest south of us. Npt sure if that puts us in the clear from contamination.

I am taking out my old charcoal filter unit and softner and putting in a new system. should I leave the old units intact while bleaching then replace them?

How much bleach do I need for 350 ft deep on a 2 inch well?