This man is so very good at diagnosis through analytical reasoning. I watch all these H2o Mechanic videos just to be amazed at the host's careful, methodical problem solving. And the fact that he knows plant species such as Hellebore (winter rose; Christmas rose) is all the more impressive.

I learn something new with each video that I watch.

Fantastic video. My wife and I done our tank we piped it all in! So, I'll save this video for future reference! God bless you brother. Looking forward to see more of your videos!

Love these types of videos. Explaining how things works. Thank you.

Very good as usual. I do miss the One s ......... Good to watch those who know what their doing .

Thanks for sharing your videos. I have a better understanding on how a well works Thanks to your channel 🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️

Very informative video, thank you! Very obvious you know your business very well! Pun intended😂

With every video I learn something new. Thanks

Great video I really enjoyed picking up knowledge on a subject that is not one covered in the UK.

I need this gentleman to come check my pump I have low pressure and sucked up a bunch black sediment like sanf

I love the diagnosis videos. Especially when the diag takes while to prove.

Bedankt voor de informatie zo leer ik ook nog een beetje bedankt daar voor. 👍 Groetjes uit Holland 👋🏼🇳🇱

Thank you for the videos and teach me a lot. You are a very knowledgeable man in your trade.

Super knowledgeable guy!

Great video love learning about well want to put one at my house. My problem is I have to go to 475 feet.

Awesome and outstanding as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

Thank you for your videos! Keep up the great work!

Very informative and great to know!

Great video. It's interesting to see all the issues this one had.

Another good video 👍 keep up the good work !!

Excellent content, thank you!

I’ve learned a ton about my well from your vids!

Thanks for the informative videos! I love how though you are and the details of the nuances of well systems. Please keep ‘em coming!

One of your very best videos

Good job! One hell of a good worker

Great video.

Thanks!

That was allot work, very thorough.

I like that warning pictogram on the old tank , showing it blowing up .

I learned a lot from this video...thanks!

Thanks for videos. Do like the way you work on well and fix's problems.

Thanks for sharing, this process was very cool to learn about. Such interesting engineering involved that we take for granted.

very informative, thank you.

Great video, Keep up the diagnosing video's and all the other type too. Have a great day

I learn something every time. You’re a good teacher. Thank you. Keep em coming.

I just sent you some paypal lunch money as a thank you for sharing your knowledge. You know what I mean: the tricks that the pros know that average DIY person will probably never have the opportunity to learn. I am getting ready to replace my 3rd pump, at the third house I have lived at. I thought I knew how to do it but you have soooo many tips and secrets. I pulled the pump the other day (muscled it up 135 feet) and I thought I was gonna die. Then I saw the clever rig that you made with the lawn mower wheels, which I am making an ok copy of right now. You may have saved this old man from having a heart attack, LOL. When I pulled it up a few days ago the pump checked good (its at least 13 years old) but the wires were chaffed in several places and I ended up having to use the green wire as a hot. I am going to the well supply place tomorrow to get everything new: wire, pump, snubbers, low-pressure trip pressure switch, etc. The 13 year old 3/4 HP pump is probably on borrowed time. It's total run is about 700 feet but its head is only 230 feet. The pressure tank is only 8 years old and is inside the house, but I will check the bladder pressure and listen for the ring and make sure its cycle time is correct for the size of the tank. (A 40 gallon bladder.) And all the other subtleties that you have shared. This will hopefully be the last time I pull a pump in my lifetime. But I think the static water height is about 40 feet higher than when I checked it several years ago, but the water still tests good like there isn't a ground water issue, I hope. Hmmm. Thanks again, and enjoy lunch on me! Lloyd

Multiple problems with a single cause. Well done!

Keep up the good work....

Thank you

You know your trade well, impressive 👍

Hi 1st time on your channel, me being in the handyman business, I like watching videos of people fixing things, I must say I was very impressed with the details of explanation that you give your viewers which keeps them watching and wanting more, Thank you sir & keep up your good work

Hi fruend thank you for sharing borehole water drilling good job

Great video

Interesting. Thanks 😊

When l was a kid my parents had a well then when l moved out l was on city water for years and years ...about 9 years ago l moved to Florida and was on a well again...all that being said l enjoy watching what you do to drill as well as repair wells it's very interesting thank you.....one last thing please always take extra caution when working it live wires l want to keep watching your videos for years to come

Great video I always check for current draw also with a electric motor

gr8 job very informative

Yall fellers made that look easy.

Yall fo fine work. Keep it up buddy! Andy

Learning soo much, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👀

Just got done getting a new hot water tank and I remember all these well videos. cracked tank flooded my basement while at work, which was such a pain. Water is a big deal.

Good video…love to watch your troubleshooting. I beat you to the diagnosis of the pressure tank this time though.

As a well driller in Australia, we deal with mud rotary as most of our land is flat coastal. We do have afew guys with DTH rigs for the hills but mainly mud rotary around these parts of Western Australia! We set casing from the BOH to surface with slotted casing down the bottom, gravel then bentonite chips to seal off the surface water. I’m glad to see everyone getting work especially us when we get government work 😎😎

good job

Hellebore also called the Christmas Rose. We planted some 20 years ago. It spread and now we have hundreds.

nice fix!

We had a well silt in and the grit from the silt trashed the pump. Well was bad after that. We could potentially have added a bunch of gravel to act as a filter but it was a total gamble. So we drilled a new well. The well guy said ours was pretty unusual but that it doesn't take a huge amount of dirt to wear out the impellers of the pump.

I love all your knowledge and appreciate all you show. Do you still think the well needed to be sleeved knowing now the tank was bad?

A lot of issues on that one. Nice work

I've had wire in my well for thirty years, I put my wire in 3/4 inch black poly, from top to bottom. Works great

Thanks, All i can say is dam your good!

My aunt had that over pressure issue. Her house required a pump to pull the city water up to the house, but when there were bad storms I'm guessing the barometric pressure difference caused problems. She had this happen a couple times , her house was on top of a mountain above the town. I help her make the repairs once. The o-rings blew out on the hoses to the toilet and sinks, some times the hoses would break, the house was only a couple years old. I think she regretted building it there . The flooding happened about 3-4 Times over 6-8 years ..

My grandpa's old well had a light wired into the pump circuit so it came on with the well. Any time that light was on when he wasn't using water and he knew he had a problem. His pump house was probably 500 feet from his house so you could only really see it at night, but it was simple and it worked. I am on a well now myself and after seeing this I'm thinking about wiring in a little led light. My well is set up with a pumptec and a big pressure tank...I could see it getting up to all kinds of shenanigans before I knew I had a problem. Why don't they all get set up with some kind of an indicator?

Hellebores hybridise themselves and the seedlings can be all sorts of colours even double ones, great plant to have but they can seed everywhere.

We had a municipal system malfunction in pipe line near water filtration plant and a group of houses got over pressured . The water plant feeds a city of 400k with smaller communities tapped in along the way

My pressure switch nipple also plugged up like that. I noticed it when the pressure release on the water heater would spray toward the end of every pump cycle. I suspect those pressure surges also blew the bladder in my pressure tank.

Watching your videos makes me wish I took a different profession as a Young Man.

If relief valve would have been used at top of well that would have eliminated the high pressure buildup from filter being installed in wrong location or any other problems causing high pressure. Also we have to install check valve at well before it go into the ground.

Was wondering what would be a good filter system for a well. A couple of years ago I had a well drilled and have not been able to use it the water is muddy.

abought 400 where i live , for the gravel plus bentinight and glue dont know where you live but prices could be higher.

I'm in the Southeast (North Carolina) sand well country...Your work looks great.. you guys def got it going on..But why on earth would you guys not dig out around the pipe, grout it in, as best you can, even if it's a few feet, and cast a 4'x4' pad/slab around that 6" PVC case?!?!?. Just my 2 cents, but in my neck of the woods, thats the most paramount is to slab out around that casing stub up. 90% of your water intrusion from rain water, will chase the casing down the sides of the sleeve. In NC, we have to have the shaft concreted around the 4" or 6" pipe 48x48 or 60x60.. The slab leaves a nice place for a data plate too, and works as a footing for fabing up a pump house where the pressure switch and bladder tank can also live, along with that breaker shut off...then y'all wouldn't have had to work around all day with homeowners away. Shame the things we work to work around. We do we all like that here I'm real surprised your job well there didn't have that setup. ..

Where did you get the wrenches to push that casing down the well

A bigger concern for me with the pump not shutting off if there's no pressure relief is the bladder tank. Or a contact tank for a chlorinated system. Many are only rated for 100-125PSI. If a tank pops it could be pretty bad

Did you pressure test the new tank before turning the water on?

I was told that it was standard practice to replace the wires every time you get a new pump. Just in Wisconsin?

I was hoping you'd share your trick for hooking up live wires 😂

Same thing happens on a steam boiler. The pigtail gets filled with kaka and the pressuretol can't shut the boiler off because it's not seeing pressure.

I think its fine to put the filter before the tank, you just need to put the pressure switch before the filter.

You could line it all the way to the bottom by taking last length of pipe below packer snd drilling holes in it to let watet to the pump but keeps kt from caving in.

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As a 40 year experienced general, i would always try to quot, best and worst case estimations. Giving underbid estimations by "$1,000 is a big deal for most consumers. It's always much much better to quote higher and come in under that bid!!! Exactly like time estimations, I always try to quote longer than saying i can get it done in 2 or 3 days so when 'you get it done in 2 days or less, you're the hero!!! Its a great way to get top ratings, good referrals, and more work from the same customers. I'd sometimes get tips from customers too for being on time, and cleaning up my mess 100%. Quality was always a prerequisite!

I always used a ball valve and a tee to reduce down to quarter inch for gauge and could check gallons per minute and be able to close valve down to check pressure. You can dead head pump to check maximum psi or see what gpm pump is pumping at different psi

What do you do if you have a30” round shallow well and when it rains a lot our water runs very cloudy What would be the fix. Thanks

Would changing the bladder tank first negated the pulling of the well pump ?

What kind of tools was that you use to get that pvc down that hole?

I have a 360 ft well with 1.5 hp motor it has 20 ft sections of pvc pipe can I pull it up by hand

What size pump would you recommend for a 40 foot bored well?

FYI working with 240 volts you can wear dry leather gloves and not get shocked. 20 years as an electrician

Mt well has a packer, water filled the area between the packer and casing and when level went down the packer slid further down the well. How far it went, I have no idea.

by 2:30 I'm guessing line/fitting leaking inside the well. which explains low pressure/volume, pump running continuous, lower current draw, warm water/well and sediment in the water from washing down the casing/bore. wouldn't be the first time I've seen that happen and I'm not a well service, although I have done plenty.

If you had known the tank was bad before you put the liner in would you still put the liner in?

Short cycling of the pump did not cause the electrical wires to get damaged insulation. That was due to poor insertion of the wires into the hole. The cables got damaged in installation. In addition the cable should have been double insulated.

Love your videos. Just a thought. Why not use Chlorine tablets instead of the powder? Get 100% of chlorine to water, use less, easier to store.

I am wondering-how to dig a well on a mtn with a rock and slate base?? I am putting in a rain catchment but really would like a well if financially feasible..

I just installed a new pressure switch to replace a bad one. The original switch is a 20-40 psi and so thats what I replaced it with. The water pressure specifically in the shower, always to me anyway, seemed to be a little weak. The washer seems to fill slow also. The gauge is showing and is set at 40psi. Is there any reason I can't change the switch to a 40-60psi and adjust the pressure 50psi?

is 2 wire better than 3?

I reckon I would have started at the tank first.and maybe just maybe I would have drained the tank to the outside so I didn’t fill the crawl space with water.I little pump on an electric drill would pump that out in 5 minutes I’ve used them dozens of times.in my rain water system.you couldn’t find the tank because you didn’t look.

Wire insulation doesn't go bad from just being there. It was damaged from careless removal/ installation at some point. You admitted to changing the pump in the past. If that wire was damaged before or during the time you last changed the pump, you should have replaced the cable at that time.

SO.... pump wasnt generating enough pressure to make switch cut off; you pulled pump, finding compromised wire. you put new wire and stabbed it. now the pressure switch cuts off. 🧐 why? you mentioned the skinny nipple 😅 was plugged. did taking pump out realease a little crud out, so when you reenrgized a bit more water went through causing it to work? how about that red wire? was it affecting motor performance, could it have affected pressure? thx- cool video

How far does the borehole have to be from a septic tank system ???