Water Well
 

Anybody know about what the going rate is to drill a water well right now? How much $ per foot to drill, cost of equipment, etc.

dont know the price but we always use Blacks water well service in Abbeville give em a call they are good people

Yea that's who I'm gonna use, I know Mr. Jessie personally. I'm just trying to prepare myself for how much it's gonna cost me.

Just run a water hose with a siphon pump across the street to the lake;)

Yea I wish it was that simple

About $1500 to $2000 with the tank and pump. Could be a little more if you go with the submergable pump.

O that's not too bad, I was waiting for somewhere between $5k-$7k

Naw, I had a 130' well drilled with a pump and tank a couple years ago and I paid $1350.

Aw man, thanks for that. I've been stressing over this crap since Friday. Here's what happened, the end of last year my wife and I bought a lot in a subdivision. Well we started doing our dirt work last week so I called the water company to come install the meter so we can have a line ready for when the builders come to do the cement work. The water company tells me that they don't have a line ran through the subdivision. So I call the guy that I bought the lot from and he tells me "O yea we didn't run water through the subdivision, just phone and power" :pissed:. So I call the water company back to see what needs to be done so I can get water to my lot and they tell me that they would obviously have to run a line through the subdivision to get to me (no shyt Sherlock!:pissed:) and that either the subdivision owners or myself would have to pay for the line to be ran since I'm the only one in the subdivision right now. So I'm weighing my options on drilling my own damn well compared to the price of paying the water company to run a line to my house. I gotta call the water company tomorrow to get their prices and call the guy I bought the lot from to see if he talked to the other owners to see if they would like to run water throughout the subdivision or not. If I woulda known they didn't have water ran through the subdivision I wouldn't have bought the damn lot to begin with :pissed::pissed::pissed::pissed:

Dang.....that just sucks..

I second that! Guarantee the seller new what he was doing, he just so happen forgot to mention it! :shaking: That pisses me off!!!!!!!!!!!



More money in his pocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Good Luck!

Can you do this any where? We have well water at the camp and I like it. Nothing like some good cold hose pipe water when we are working! I might be interested in drilling a well on my property.

Yep.....probably a little over budget and decided to just cut out the water line....times like these is what the "***** slap" was invented for.;)

I don't know if you can or not. I agree the cold well water is good but I don't miss having to prime the well early in the morning when it's raining and freezing cold....those were the days...:shaking:

How does the house across the steet get their water? Well?

That's pretty much EXACTLY how it happened! When they developed the subdivision, the law didn't require them to install water lines, it was voluntary. Now the law requires them to be placed into new developments.

Yep, found that out when I asked one of the owners which water company I had to call to get the meter installed :pissed:

You have to prime the well even if it is used every day?

Couldn't agree more, nothing like a good "***** slap" :D

No, the well will stay primed, but what Blue is referring to is when it is freezing outside and you wake up and the well lost prime for whatever reason: loss of electicity or the lines froze up, and you have to go out there freezing your "****" off to prime it.


Wells never seem to lose prime on warm sunny days! ;)

Oh. Guess I didn't get a chance to do this yet. This will be my second season here. Can't wait!!!

Ive had well water pretty much my whole life and the only time you lose prime is if you run the water when the electricity is off or you dont run the water when your pipes could freeze

Yea...it did not lose prime very often but as was previously stated, it never happens on a warm sunny day....And "Yes" Meaux you are correct about turning on the water when the electricity was out.

And that can happen very easily. How many times have you walked through your home when the electricity is out and walk into a room and flip the light switch....:)...It's just a habit. Same with turning the faucet on. As a kid, I always blamed my brother....:D

Yeh, I did too, but as Blue said, in a house full of people someone was bound to forget and turn on a faucet. Add a bad foot valve and priming it was a pain. I'm 41 years old, had water well for 34 of those years, and community water the last 7, life is good! ;)

The water bill would be paid to "*"....since it's his "lake". :)

My dad had a few issues with priming his well. Bad foot valve.
Since it was replaced, no priming for the past 2 years.

Nope, different lake

Did you call and get the price to drill your well today?
Just wondering how much they went up in the last couple years.

got mine done about 2 months ago it was 160' i went with a 3" submersible pump and it was 3k. this also included the pressure tank

No man, I didn't call. I spoke with the guy in charge of the local water company and he said that since my property borders the highway that he can bore a line under the highway and direct feed water to my lot only instead of going through the subdivision. All I have to pay is $550 for a meter box and they will do the rest! :churn:

I would pay to be the first one in a subdivision to run the water line in!!!!! Then, everyone else would have to pay me to tap into it!!!!!

That's awesome longside, definitely better than a water well. Glad it worked out! :D

my dad owned a water well service since I was 5yrs old but he just sold it all a few years ago...not sure about the going prices right now...if any of you have any problems or questions about wells shoot me a pm and I can answer any of your questions but prices..I still do a few repairs here and there for some of the people around my house though.