Well, now that's a deep subject! On Sunday I noticed the water pressure was a bit low. Then it was even lower until it wasn't at all. Hoping it was just a valve replacement or something, we got hold of a plumber we always use when in trouble. He couldn't make it until yesterday and after examining the pressure tank and valve he said the good news that they were fine but then the bad news was it was our well pump that wasn't working. We've lived here 24yrs and we don't know how much older the well pump is than that, but we were told those pumps have about a 20yr lifespan. So we got a few more years from it, but I would have liked to have had it go bad in the summer and not at Christmas. I joked that everyone would get a bottle of water for Christmas this year! Living in the country is nice and we do enjoy it but there's always those "things" that come up or go out that we didn't deal with in town. Anyway, now we can turn on the faucet and flush the toilets with success and water! We did have to pretend to primitive camp with warmed up bottled water for bathing and bottles by the commode for the necessary times! Glad that's over!
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Man! that is utterly awful! I am thinking it has been taken care of.
It is always good to have a water problem. Sure, eases your mind. Ours ws not WELL related, but still water.. Odd that, we just recovered from a tough water problem our selves.... ;-) Enjoy/
Ugh on the water issue and glad it is fixed now. Yes living out in the country does have it trials and tribulations it seems. I am semi country, but would love to be more in the country, but Bob says we are fine we we are. We had the ice, snow rain mess too here yesterday. Not fun driving in it. Janice
Eeek.... Glad you got it resolved - and you're fortunate you don't have the snow cover we do. You are also very fortunate that that your pump lasted so long. We've replaced our main well pump 3x already. Last year I had to replace both the main well and the secondary one due to the lightning strike. While I would never welcome a fourth time, it was a bit shocking when the well guy said that this should last for at least 20 years and, at the point, I wouldn't be worrying about it. Hello???? Sobering...and, unfortunately, true.
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