Definitely not wasted time or effort....you have a new tank which is bigger, two new pressure switches (one for a spare),and you learned what makes that thing work. As far as that little filter goes, you could just put one on the kitchen faucet if you need assurance for your cooking and drinking water. Thanks for sharing your experience. Y'all have a blessed day.

You should put a spigot out at the well head. This will allow you to check the water pressure and flow at the source in the future.

Your problem solving skills are so impressive. I know you think you wasted your efforts. But, you have an upgraded system, and you have learned. ❤

Water in the well is probably dropping so there is more sediment going in the filter. But it's always a learning experience.

Whenever the water level is lower, there is more silt in the well. We have to clean out our filter going in and out of the "on demand" hot water heater twice as often in late summer when there is (usually) much less rain.

I love the optimism! The silver linings are gold for those who embrace curiosity, open to discovery, and determination to find a path through life’s maze. 😊

You will never regret switching out that pressure switch and tank. And look how much you learned! Thankful it was something so simple and not a re-drill!

I’m impressed with your skills, even though you ended up calling a PROFESSIONAL you learned a valuable lesson. Educations cost one way or the other! I think you did a great job!

Thank goodness for the company you called walking you through the next step of the filter. Good company if you need any help in the future.

Love your attitude towards life. Everything's a learning experience.

Jaison you are so awesome to try to do it all yourself!!! Thanks for taking us along on your journey!

Don’t beat yourself up! You learned a lot AND you may be faced with something in the future where you say “Wow am I glad I changed out those well components!”❤❤❤

Thank goodness as homeowners one of your precious needs is water and I think the new tank was a good purchase who knows how long the old one was. all is well again.

Glad you have water now!! God Bless!!

Indiana has wonderful weather. Plenty of rain when we need it. We are truly Blessed of GOD😊

You are ssoooo good, Jason. I had to help out at my mom's house after we had lost my dad, and my oldest son just knew everything we needed to start with. (My oldest son was in construction at that time). I was so glad. My son just went through it step by step by step until we had it fixed. I was so proud of him. Jason, I'm so proud you stayed with the problem until you found the answers, and you have so much knowledge of it all now. This is a terrific video of answers. I love it. Thanks.

The best is his wife trying not to make eye contact and being forced to say “Why did you not check the $3 filter before spending $_00 on well parts”. 😂

You did your best,well done for trying so hard.👍

You have extra keep the use parts . You upgraded it so now you know 👍🏽

Glad you got water back. Defiantly not a wast of time. You learnt a lot. Hats off to all the great teachers and content makers on google and youtube. Putting the date on your new components is a great idea.

Oh Jason, we feel your pain.

Sounds like it was all for the good. Hang in there, brother.

Great job learning your water system. It will be very beneficial for your future additions to your water out to the barns 😊 I agree great job well done.

It reminds all of us who own a home what it's like to go to Home Depot multiple times and to live and learn. Just think how many people Jason will help today and in the future with this video. I believe that this video will pay for Jason's time and money spent to do the work.

Oh man, the look on your face when things were figured out for your water. We feel ya. Owning a home comes with highs and lows but we are better for it. ❤❤

Super happy to hear that the water pressure is back to normal. Thanks for sharing.

Hey yall we can totally understand how expensive troubleshooting can be! We have enjoyed your journey for many years. Your family contributed to us following the same dream. Thanks for sharing!❤❤

It’s all good. An ounce of prevention. 😂 Great job Jason.

Jason you are becoming a Jack of all trades and a master at none. 😂😂

Congratulations on your new degree!

Hopefully rain this weekend

From the department of "closing the barn door after the horse"... Perhaps you could invest in several new pressure gauges and install them strategically in the system to indicate when filters are starting to clog?

Oh well. 😂 all is good. 🕊

All positives Jason. You did a maintenance job on your water system and sorted out the filter. Good job! 😅

Oh my Jason your a trooper :-)

Great video. Love it. Glad y'all still have water. It's SO dry.

Well this didn't turn out to be the worst thing which would have been a dry well and like you said! You were required to deal with a issue on the Homestead and you did your best. We all know that you are this amazing person with a wonderful family. So with a few more confidence builders like this one and soon you will be back to the same confident guy that we all came to know and appreciate at start up of the Sow the Land homestead channel. Only thing different now is that the homestead is in a different and bit larger location in terms of space and from the number of views this video received in the first few hours. I'd say that the channel fans are like hip hip hooray 🙌 He's back 💡 Thanks for sharing Jason

Well…that’s a deep subject!😂 We are California refugees homesteading in Arkansas. Never been on well water so had to jump into the deep end after insufficient pressure and a foul sulfur smell. We knew there was water because we live on a river. After a lot of You Tube University, my husband found the problem with the capacitors. He knows what to do now if we have another problem. It’s wonderful to keep learning new things. Keeps you young! Blessings!

My rule is start with the cheapest things and replace them first..and in north wells are not the same,you deal with points clogging...

Good to see that the problem is solved and that the well did not go dry. Not being familiar with your water system, it's too bad you replaced the more expensive items first and then still had no resolution, but at least those two components you replaced should last a long time. Sometimes the simplest of the chain is the root cause, but often this happens. Having done my career in maintenance, I learned through trial and error the same way, not even giving the smallest item any thought, especially when you mentioned that you had cleaned that filter awhile ago. Hopefully we will start getting some rain and get beyond this drought we have here in TN. I live in southern middle TN and we also are under a extreme drought condition. One good thing is that now you also have your rain water tank in place which just needs some decent rain to fill it up. Have a Blessed day!

I call it preventative maintenance lol now you know all that is good to go

Living and learning. Not a failure, a learning experience and new equipment!!!

You know... I appreciate you sharing your mistakes and your wins. We ALLLL flub up but we don't all have subscribers to it.

I am glad you were able to figure it all out. We had a community well in our subdivision in the city. We all have 1acre to 1 1/2 acre lot's. Thank GOD we never had a problem.

What you paid for the tank and switch and then learning about the filter is small compared to what it would have taken to go to a class and learn that stuff. Good job.

Retired electrician here. That pre-filter is the canary telling you that the water level in the well is/was low; guessing you figured that already. In a worse-case scenario, you'll run the well dry and cause the pump to overheat and burn out. To fix that, you'll drill a new, deeper, well. Don't drop a new pump down the same hole if at all possible because it will suffer the same fate. My thought to reduce the risk of running the well dry is to purchase enough water to fill the new rain tank and conserve as much as possible. Best to y'all!

Just be glad! Sometimes you don't have a choice but to try one thing after another.

Good job

Go, Jason! Great attitude to have, 👍

Such a good learning experience, definitely not all for nothing, it's brand new and you learned a lot and taught us at the same time! 🙌

Definitely wasn’t a wasted effort. You realized that yourself. Good job😁 I love your channel ❤️

I love how Jason can take a problem and jumps in and does do it yourself after doing the research with his google you tube university !!

Jason please don't let no water hit the foundation or basement it's will crack in time . Always ,always KEEP WATER around your house away we saw it on the video you turning on that water faucet on running water too close to the foundation of the home😮 We all enjoy your videos, Good Job 👍

So glad you got the problem Fix . With the Water thank goodness

We do the same on taking a picture of things we try to fix ourselves..

It is a blessing to learn! Congratulations!

You learned a lot and your well is not dry, So I think your doing great Jason. Everybody needs to start somewhere. Thanks for the video stay safe, healthy and happy.

Great job Jason!!!! You got 'er done!!!!

Well done, all kinds of learning!

Bless your heart, we had the EXACT same thing happen to us, same filter, everything and we also put in new pressure tank. But like you, we know all the particulars.

what a time you guys are having Ben runs water forgets and no water and now your out of water cause the pressure is gone lol i know a bit about fridays podcast lol hugsssss

Always interesting… learn something new every day!

Its good your using rain catchment too but you need rain ⛈️

Thank you for that great belly laugh. This 85 year old Grandma Nerd really enjoyed that video. 😅

Good day.

I think the best move you made was calling a professional and finding somebody that was nice enough to help you troubleshoot the problem

We are on a well and septic. After a year of saying the pressure is bad, he finely checked the pressure valve and it was bad. Something else I learned, is getting your septic tank emptied every 5 years.

YAY!!!!!!! learning is good!

You do make me laugh and I do appreciate that.

Jason you are amazing. You have skills and abilities that have shown a lot of people that you can be successful homesteader.

Well done ✅ Jason

The thing you learned is to start with the simplest things first! The hubs had issues with fuel flow in the tractor, he did so many things, draining the tank and checking fuel lines only to discover the tiny fuel filter underneath the tractor was clogged. He replaced it and it ran smoothly for a few weeks before the problem returned, he went to KZfaq University and found out how to reroute the lines and added a bigger filter on the side which corrected the problem for good! Lessons learned and knowledge gained is always a bonus!

Oh Jason you did a great job. Process of elimination. Now you know. Glad it’s working.

You have to laugh…..😂 GOLD!

No, you have a new tank and switch and you’re likely good for years. Money well spent!

Note to self, buy a new gauge for the tank, and a few new filters so you have a stock on hand, and its always nice to know how things work on your property and that the professional approved of your work, love the videos!!

Jason. Don't beat yourself up over your failed efforts with the well. It happens to the best of us!!

Exactly everything is new. Next time you know where to start. Thank God you’re well was not dry. God bless.

I had a very similar problem. However, in my case there was an electrical shortage between well house and the well itself. Something to keep in mind if it happens again😊

You did great

Great job. I would encourage you to put a pressure gauge on inlet and outlet of your filter system to visually see pressure drop. Good luck 🤞

Another NC person here. I have never seen such a dry fall. Usually fall in NC is wet and chilly. I hope we get some good rain soon.

You just added to KZfaq University. You just did a step by step and taught us to follow the flow of the water. Put another larger filtering system in to replace that undersized filter it may help. The repair person did he make any recommendations for filtering.

😢 I feel for you guys... the exact same thing happened to us when we moved to our new place. We were used to being on a well, but we trusted the previous owners word as they said they'd put new filters in the week of closing. We found they definitely hadn't lol.

I went through this on our farm house when it was still my aunts. We did tank switch all new plumbing to find out the well had collapsed and needed a well drilled. The old one was a cobble stone hand dug well from 1895. After they filled it in I dug it out about 4 feet and use it for a fire pit

Love the upload! My well has a well house and a holding tank for the water, then it goes to the pressure tank then my house, we LOVE our well water

Everyday's a school day. 👍

I felt this! I was over here Going "check for fire ants shorting the pump" (happened here) Check for fried lizards (danged little geico man), Check the water line for a thirsthy tree root (yep! been there) . And there was that one time our pressure tank was "breathing"- it was expanding and contracting, it's a miracle it did't blow. Most of our problems were resolved by HAVING SEALED POWER BOXES INSTALLED. Get that done when you can. Every spring we put sevin dust around the power box to keep critters out, no need to have scary bugs camping it that nice cave you made for them. I really hope you don't have any issues when it gets cold.

Rain is coming for N. Georgia this weekend! Hopefully you get some to!

I'm proud of you Jason. Now you and Lorraine will feel more relaxed about your water system this winter as a result of installing a new tank. In recent years in Italy where I live, we have had extreme heat and drought in the summer followed by extremely heavy rain in the fall and early winter. So make sure you are ready for the heavy rains when they come soon. God bless you all.

No harm is doing some upgrades. Thanks for adding another chapter to the youtube University class! Maybe someone will see this and check their filter and you will have helped them!!

Well you updated your well gear. Cheers.

Use the old tank and equipment for a second well on the other side of your land👍

So impressed on how you seem to be able to do almost everything!

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Jason you worked so hard on that project and did a really good job. Sometimes all we need is another set of eyes. Keep the old parts now for spares for possible 'next time'.

the tanks set up looks a lot better:)

I think you did great! I,m impressed!

Great job!

Every day lessons are learned. You learned a lot from the well repair. 💞