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No. the house is on city water, the well isn't being used. I don't drink the city water, too many warnings in the water bill every month. The city water smells like chlorine and it leaves stains on my pots and pans if you don't dry them after washing. If I fill a bucket with a garden hose, it...

The test was done by a company that was trying to sell water treatment systems because the city water is contaminated with benzene and mercury in some areas here. The test was for: petroleum compounds, benzene, coliform bacteria, iron, manganese, pH, all volatile organic compounds,, nitrates...

Not at all, I just don't want to put it off till I'm too old to do the work. I'm still able to do it myself, and I've got most of the stuff here to do what ever needs to be done. I plan to redo the electrical in the house this spring, once the weather breaks and I don't have to worry about...

If I look at it that way, I'll loose nothing if I fill in the pit, forget the whole idea and sell off the new pump and tank. It won't take more than 6 bags of cement mix to finish the floor, and I've got four yards of dirt in a pile out back I canuse to fill the hole with, and length of 8" PVC...

Funny you mention that, years ago I had been having some severe gut pains, they had me in the hospital thinking maybe it was food poisoning or even a stomach perforation. After a month they had tried everything, being early spring, I was also having allergy issues, so they gave me Benedryl, that...

The basement floor is concrete, the well pit is in one corner, about 18" off the corner walls. The walls of the pit are block partway down, but not to the bottom. The bottom is dirt except for a small pad where the pump used to sit. The basement is pretty dry, I get a few trickling leaks here...

Your HF must have better hiring practices, the one here must hire from the senior center. The coupons stopped coming after covid started, so did the emails and free items. I haven't been in there now in two years. Since their prices started to climb a few years ago I've been able to find just...

I can't say for sure, but he was 'beyond' normal retirement age back then. I moved 800 miles away and lost touch with most back there over the years. If he's still around, he'd be well into his 80's or older now. Sadly, that generation and their way of doing business is slowly going away simply...

21 years ago I had a 78ft x 45ft driveway poured at one of my old houses in PA. I hired a pretty well known commercial concrete guy, who did lots of local strip malls, sidewalks, and driveways. (I knew him and knew his work because we used him where I worked). I ripped up the old brick...

Where I'm at, there's been very little support for EV's, they did put in a few natural gas stations, but too few and far between to matter and the vehicles suffer engine issues early on due to a lack of top end lube. I bought a used van from the gas company a few years back, it had 38,450 miles...

This is one of the reasons I'd like to see a whole house shutdown switch on the outside by the meter, but adding one here changes everything. If the shutdown switch is a breaker, it acts as the main breaker and safety switch, thus making the inside panel a sub panel. This changes both the type...

I have a new pump and tank, all I need is a check valve. The downside of filling in the pit and extending the well casing is that it then will be taking up floor space. I'm leaning towards building a concrete wall around the sides leaving a lip so the cover or hatch can sit flush with the...

I watched the meter reader the other day, the first thing he does is scan the tag, then he reads and enters the reading off the dials and hits enter. There's a bar code on the tag, and the lock tag number is on the monthly bill next to the 'date of reading'. The old tag was the same, but in a...

My house at one time had a water pump and well that was installed in a 5ft deep pit in the corner of the basement. The house has a full basement, the ceiling clearance is 7.5ft, with a nicely done concrete floor that slopes to a central sump pump pit in the center below the steps. The well pit...

Before the rain started this morning I took a lump of putty and made a rope and presses it into the gap all around the meter. I kept packing it in till the gap was sealed flush. We had a good bit of hard rain today and so far not a drop of water through the cable. its not a permanent fix but...