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If your husband can drill a well, he can dig a trench to the city water, and pipe to there and probably only needs the city or licenced plumber to make the actual connection. Talk with the city inspectors and see what inspections you need my guess is you can rent the equipment, buy gravel, fill and pipe for $11k.
Do not cheap-out on this. Have it done professionally from folks who will fix it, are insured, will inspect it upon completion, and will warranty it….. when it’s water or gas - call the pros.
Pay the $30K to hook up to city water and you won't have to spend $50K to drill another well 15 years from now.
Your City takes an EMP, (Electro-magnetic Pulse)
Your Great-grandchildren say: "I hate pumping water"
Exactly, pay for city water and be done with it. If you ever want to sell in the future and have a DIY well good luck. Looks like from a quick internet search that Arkansas has regulations for who can do this work and how it needs to be done. Also, if your well runs dry who’s to say a new well is not going to do the same thing. The aquifer obviously is being depleted at high demand times.
@@NorthTidus Aquifer was 180 ft deep,
My Dad punched to 250 ft deep.
New houses went to 220 ft.
they built ~200 units.
Aquifer is now 200 ft deep, some homes run dry in summer.
I worked for a power plant in the desert.
4000 gals/minute.
Evaporating for cooling steam.
Going to drain 20% of the aquifer in 20 years, took ~200 million years to fill.
Ground subsidence monitoring
@@aolvaar8792 Don't know about Great-grandkids but I sure would!
My family is in well drilling, just the equipment and process takes weeks to months to learn at a minimum. Some well drillers wont even take jobs that drill through rock. Then you dont even know if you will hit water. There is real risk in that route whether you hire it or DIY it.
Unless her husband has already worked as a well driller, there is no way he should take this on as a DIY project. Maybe if it's relatively shallow...but it sounds like it isn't.
Agree totally. This is not a diy
Yeah they’re talking about drilling through bedrock. Even a trained geologist would have trouble predicting where to drill and how far down.
Watch the entire video and you’ll get your answer
@@bape520 I did. She didn't say they had experience. She said she is sure they can handle it. Vastly different.
@@bape520 there was no question...
I compliment her as a homemaker. This is a serious emergency and she’s still reticent to spend to handle it and is instead going to exceptional and annoying lengths to keep things washed, laundered etc. She’s heavily researched every possible option. This is good work by her.
Crazy call:
1. They're spending money to sue the former owner for "fraud", but yet, unsure even if they prevail they would get money.
2. If the former owner only had one or two people in the house and now you have a family of four or more taking showers, doing laundry, etc, they may have exceeded the capacity of the well.
3. Wells do go dry.
4. There is no guarantee that you spend $24k on a new well that they will hit water and even if they do, that the new well will flow any better than the old well.
5. For $6k more, they can get municipal water to their house. That would definitely be a selling point if they decided to sell in the future and it is a guarantee that you will get water to the house. Drilling a well is not a guarantee.
6. George is all for spending $4800 on a used piece of equipment that hasn't run in years, most likely is going to require some repairs, and even if you got it to work, that is not the only expense they will incur in putting in a new well. New pumps, pipes, bladder tanks, well casing, electrical service, ad infinitum. It all adds up.
She can only do one load of dishes a day. Lol I can only do one a week. Both our wells went dry 2 years ago. All the above is true. A good works around for us has been rain water collection that gets us by.
I have lived on well water for most of my life, and I agree that the city water tap is the obvious choice. It would be worth taking a modest mortgage or personal loan and paying it off asap.
Does a well go dry because it has exceeded a certain volume per time frame? Or is it more unpredictable than that? If they get the municipal flow can the well be used as back-up (or visa versa)?
@@maiaheiss2991 Many reasons that cause a well to go dry. A lot depends on the topography of the area, rainfall, how many users are on wells, how much they are withdrawing each day, etc. A few years ago in our area, drought was causing a lot of wells to dry up. If they go on municipal water, they can still use the well for watering gardens, washing cars, etc. Even if you are not using a well as your primary source of drinking water, you still want to use the well and not let the water sit there.
@@maiaheiss2991 Some wells go into an aquifer that has had the same water in it for centuries and when it is used up it is used up. Others are relying on ground water that was rain recently and has soaked through the ground and are affected by droughts. Sometimes there is plenty of water but the well is just silted up and doesn't work properly any more. Water is a complicated business.
Don't buy the well drilling rigs. When you pay to have a well drilled, 5% of what you pay is for the equipment, 95% is for the well driller's knowledge and decades of experience. Buying a well drilling rig doesn't make you a well driller any more than buying a professional kitchen makes you a professional chef.
I'm a person who had to have a well dug at my yet to be built home back in the early 90's in Colorado. We had to get a permit, that was supposed to be good, but it had expired. So we needed to get another one. We also needed to contract someone who could do a soils test to see if the septic system/leach field would drain properly. PLUS we needed someone come out who knew the area to make sure that we could get to the water as there might be ROCK to drill through. The people that we found were very good at their jobs. The well was dug in ONE DAY over 300 feet deep. The whole crew came out with LOTS of specialized equipment to reach the water. Once they hit it, they went down deeper to make sure that even if the water table dropped we would still have water. Was it expensive? YES! Was it worth it? ABSOLUTELY!
Unless the caller knows exactly where the water is and if it is contaminated due to other nearby wastewater/septic systems/leach fields/etc. I would HIGHLY recommend getting a professional. This is a long term investment and will last decades, if done right. If not, as the caller has already discovered, it's a HUGE headache.
Hope this helps...
EDIT: After reading some of the comments, I agree to get city water piped to the house for the extra money and keep the one you have already for outside watering. I know it's a pain in the neck to take laundry into town and haul water from other places. Did that off and on for several years. It's not fun at all. But IMO the best of both worlds would be to have the city water with the sporadic well for outside watering.
Sacrifice for the city water, too much unknown about 2nd hand equipment. If it doesn't work out then back where you started, husband and I were advised go city with a 5 yr clause.. anyone needing line $1000. came back to us. Super glad we took the advice, no worries it will all work out prayers to all....
Eh ... you kind of need water. Get it piped from the city, take out more mortgage. The house is unsellable without fixing this anyway.
im curious why you think city water which is a monthly bill is better than pure cold 50 degree well water which is nearly free after the initial installation with just a minimal electric cost for the pump? people pay more for properties that have private wells over city water, which is literally just recycles PEE often times.
In some states your property would be condemned for no running water….
@@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem Really the best option would to have two way water, so you can use city for when the well has issues or for big demands for water during droughts. With the way well contamination has been going, its also pretty good insurance against those sorts of issues.
@@stephkent2736 yep i dont disagree. my setup is a bit different though because i chose my land based on the water. we have several high volume springs at the top of the mountain feeding into a large creek, i have 2 dozen ponds, and a deep well, and i own the entire mountain watershed and a large area surrounding my home so i know at least the springs/creek are clean unless like literally a fuel tanker plane crashes there lol.
i realize large land ownership of premium land like that isnt viable for most people.
americans are starting to wise up and land like this for homesteading has went way up in value. i honestly probably should look into having city water as an option too
It is EXTREMELY difficult to prove that the owners knew and, when asked about the well, told a lie. As the old adage goes, “If you didn't get it in writing, it didn't happen.” Always get a house inspection, septic inspection, and water inspection.
Get the city water option. Eventually the city will force all properties on water/sewer lines to hook in. They will also condemn all existing wells. Ive seen this scenario play out many times as rural areas become urbanized.
Get city water. There's no guaranteeing a new well won't run dry, too.
But it tastes awful
Water was 180 ft down, had the well drilled to 250 ft.
200 houses added, some homes drilled to 220 ft,
run dry late summer.
A woman in the comments said her well wall collapsed & sand poured into her pipes so she decided to hook up to city water but the increased water pressure burst all the pipes where she had to replumb the house. Never thought of that happening.
there is also no guaranteeing that city water will always be a thing, i get thats a bit of a doomsday scenario though.
i specifically chose a property that has several spring heads at the top of the mountain running into a large creek, and i own the whole watershed meaning the top of the mountain down well below my home so i know there isnt a property above polluting it. i also have a very deep well which is the primary source. imo well water is a no brainer over city water which is a life long monthly fee. im a farmer, so using city water just isnt economical. ive built 2 dozen ponds most of which are fed by rainwater, and all hold water year round. needless to say, if the well goes dry we have 2 backup sources.
americans seriously are ignorant regarding how valuable water is, we use it like its infinite, but in reality most people on earth live in water poor areas, there are children who will never swim, because the only water they ever see is delivered in a water truck and they have to crowd around it with a bucket hoping to get some.
it pisses me off that big industrial farms are draining our ancient Fossil water Aquifers to grow cow food in desert climates, even the Saudis are buying up our land and doing this to feed cows in Saudi Arabia.
we are destroying this country in the name of short term profits
@@Big-Government-Is-The-Problem
The water delivery contract for the house was signed in 1936, 25K gallons every 14 days.
The cistern fills first, then overflows onto the property, orchard and garden.
This is a situation that is why having credit is important. They need to take out a second mortgage, and pipe City water to their home. Then work like crazy to pay that off in the next 2-3 years. Having city water will increase the property value, and improve the quality of their lives.
Just go with the city water. You have no guarantee that the new well won't go dry like the old one did.
If the caller doesn't consider this an emergency, then what is an emergency.
Now, when they talk about strong women, they are talking about this woman..Go Girl!!
They have lived 3 years with an assortment of work arounds while presumably paying off debt and accumulating some savings. It is not like they don't have any water .... that would be more of an emergency.
Cisterns are made for this situation, have one built that is large enough for several month supply and rely on a pump to slowly fill the tank back up when not in use.
Great idea. A warehouse I worked out of in Montana contracted out water this way and it worked for a 18,000 sq ft facility hosting 12 people. The only “hassle” was unlocking the gate for our supplier, but in a residential area it shouldn’t be an issue.
Wells can be fickle too. Previously living rurally there are a lot of factors that can influence your well/spring. Trying to say the prior owners were fraudulent may be a stretch. She may also consider placing a cistern and having water delivered for the dry times to save on cost
Caller is of a generation where conserving resources is just not a concept. If they would think about it and learn to conserve, they would be fine.
Catchment tank/cistern is the correct answer if they choose not to increase their present debt.
I don't think the home seller committed fraud, buyers didn't do a proper well /home inspection and want someone to blame and taking no responsibility themselves for not doing their due diligence. I would get city water, yes is is more expensive and comes with a bill but least your probably never have to worry about it again. Doing this themselves sounds like they going to be wasting money, but if it works, it may be worth while but may also run dry.
My thinking is the city will arrange a payment plan for the initial installation. Please check. I have lived in the country and in town - attaching to city water has always been less expensive in the long run. Private wells run dry; the motors burn out; the wiring shorts out, the pressure gage malfunctions. And the list goes on. and on.
I'd like to see em try to negotiate a bit. I have a hard time believing someone selling a good well driller wouldn't be willing to rent to an honest man trying to give running water to his wife and kids. You don't need to buy a well driller, you just need working water.
Yes, I didn't believe there was no way to rent the equipment. It makes zero sense to buy a well driller just to drill one well...
I would never rent one out. Have some amateur wreck my equipment because they have no clue what they are doing.
No amount of being debt-free will fix 3 issues: shelter, food... and water.
...if only this made the point you think it makes...
@@user-mf4gz3sp1q The point I think it makes is that you need water, even at the cost of small amount of debt. Same for shelter and food. You don't get opt out of those because you may need to borrow for a time.
That's the point I'm making.
My septic tank collapsed a while back, it was an old conventional septic system with a leach line. I was convinced I could fix it myself and save about $7,000. I spent $3,000 renting machinery and buying equipment just to finally find out my soil isn't porous enough for a conventional system to work. I ended up paying the $10,000 for an aerobic system in the end and I wish I would have gone that route to begin with. The $3,000 I wasted is now one of my "stupid taxes" for trying to save money DIY'ing something very important, like a septic system.
All this to say, I'd pay for city water if I were in your shoes. You could buy that machine for $4,800 just to find it needs all sorts of repairs, and good luck finding a mechanic or parts for an 80's water well truck! When it's all said and done you might have $15,000 invested in the machine just to find that the water table under your property is depleted, you wind up paying for city water in the end, and the machine was a huge waste of time and money. Not to mention the rift all that stress could cause on your marriage. I 100% agree with the other commenters; collect rain water, buy a cistern, and be frugal with usage until you can BUY CITY WATER! Best of luck!
My well wall collapsed and started dumping sand into all my pipes. I could have sleeved it, but chose to hook up to city water. The increased water pressure broke every pipe in the house and I had to replumb the whole house. 😢
That sounds horrible. Im sorry
What did YOU do
Asking an off-grid water lifestyle question to on-grid folks. You get different answers. Yes I realize it has to do with money but it is also a lifestyle question. The big question is can you can you get by for a while living a very water conservation life? Maybe put in water tanks or rain catchment till you can pay cash to put in a good clean well. Keep in mind if you already have well and it's gone dry there may be other issues with some of the hardware that's already in place. So there might be extra cost required after drilling, ie pump, pipes, pressure tank, holding tank, etc.
Sounds like you have the skills, which is awesome, you just need to save cash and do it right.
It doesn't sound like they are living an off-grid lifestyle. They are just living somewhere that happens not to have city water.
@@thomasdalton1508 Maybe not, but for water the caller indicated they live on a well the seller failed to disclose dries up at times.
Also I thought the caller mentioned early on that they had two options a new well or connect to town water. The town system would cost more money to connect to and option two was either purchase a used drilling rig or a new one to put in a new well in themselves. I was just trying to present a temporary cheaper option till they could save and cash to pay for a completed project.
DIY project for something as essential water for 2024. Get a mortgage pay professionals to obtain city water and live comfortable.
I would get city water, you never know if her next drill would run dry, and city water you wouldn't have to worry about the well ... Pay $30,0000 for water a one time deal.
That’s fine if they understand that after paying $30k there will be a minimum monthly bill whether they use it or not.
Idk about Arkansas. But generally here in East TN. A good water well will last you 100 years or so.. Now eventually it'll need some kind of work, but that will be a long time e away. Wells never go dry here. It rains every week.
We've had a few problems with our well. But having it fixed was always cheaper than getting hooked up with city water and our well has never run dry before. Even when the pipe busted and the pump was pumping up water the whole night into the back yard. I think these peope need to do more research into wells and their land to know for sure if they should go with city water or drill for another well.
Listening to this call is really incredible to me. I live in San Diego. Nobody has a well. Nobody can live on $60,000 per year let alone for a couple and be debt-free besides a mortgage.
Noooo…. Not as easy as it sounds! If it was everyone would be digging their own wells. This advice was a miss.
I would spend the 30K and bring in city water and then yoy never have to worry about a well again
Could get the city water installed and sell the property for at least 60,000. more for your trouble.
Another option set up a rain water collection system for your water. It will buy you time and give you water.
How do they even know that before they bought the property, "the well runs dry twice a year"? A neighbor said so? How can they prove anything was fraud?
My State, Buying a home with Septic and/or well requires a clearance from The State environmental quality.
Failure to disclose (an act of omission) is lying>>
for profit>> fraud.
I thought i was unfortunate for needeing to replace my well pump. Compared to my well going dry, I got off easy.
I personally would just get city water hooked up. Wells go dry after a while and this problem comes back sooner or later. The city pays for the problem if you’re hooked up to them
Get the water from your roof to a tank. That might be better
Clever. Yes, getting smart about their water use is a good move. Compost toilets. And perhaps even figuring out why it runs dry.
I like that idea, but they need to be careful since the roof has all kinds of things that aren't good for humans to drink or use.
@sprint7412 no. It's called a first flush diverter and they work quite well.
I live off grid and we have to tote our water in and pump it into our camper. I’ve run out of water before and it’s MISERABLE, and that’s coming from someone who has chosen this life, knowing water may be difficult to figure out.
For someone who bought a house expecting consistent running water, I can’t even imagine how frustrating that would be.
I wouldn’t encourage buying a drilling rig for just one well. There are a lot of additional costs associated beyond the cost of the rig. Permits, well casing, water tests, etc….. And there is no guarantee if you don’t hit water.
Get city water. $24k is much higher than the usual cost to drill a well. Get other estimates. It may mean the well must be very deep or penetrate dense rock. No job for a newbie, even if "handy." $4k sunk on old gear is not wise if it is not up to the task or breaks. To drill a well entails plenty of other cost too. Would the caller tell a future buyer the new well had no certification or warranty? Contractors, lessors, or lenders may shy away from litigious customers anyway.
They definitely need more bids to compare. But, so much depends on location. Some places in the Midwest, you can still get a well for 15K. A family member in Wyoming just had to pay 50K for a new well. There are so many variables.
drilled two wells on my 40 acre a property....still hooked up to city. both Wells insufficient to support a hoyse.
Depending on the region that would not be considered fraud. If they drill a new well they might still not have water. I bought a property in the north and the seller commited fraud by concealing the fact that ice particles rain from the sky every year.
Why would you consider them not disclosing weather patterns fraud? That's like saying they didnt tell me a tornado runs through here every year. Its dumb not to know where you live or moved to.
Before I buy, I call DEQ, and get the well driller's report and the current well inspection report
required prior to sale.
The seller did not offer to tell that the well was condemned.
@@crackberrry1 I think this was sarcasm or some sort of tongue in cheek comment that you're taking serious
Well well well! 😂
The defendant (prior owner) is "judgement proof"; you can't wring anything out of a dry rag 🤦🏻♂️
living in america with no water, and unwilling to use money allocated for this very purpose to fix it. i wonder which $20k emergency she would be okay with fixing? roof blown off? or would she be okay with covering it with trash bags and wanting to hold on to that $20k just in case something bigger pops up
Store water when you have water. IBC totes. Rain catchment.
Buying a well drilling rig and doing it yourself isn't a "temporary fix." It would be a nightmare.
If you go with the @ $4800 well rig, it sounds like what is important is the well digging portions. Since you are not going into the well drilling business, you could theoretically have it towed on site if that means a reduction in price; as you're capable, fix it up so that it can be driven as well. Ultimately, I would go through the cost to have city water plumbed because it affects the property's value, re-sale capability, and your net worth. All the more so if you are a.lowed to remain capped or turned off enough to not have a monthly bill. In this day and age, let alone the future, it is a good idea to have a back up for a private well.
Honestly hooking up to city water would be the best option, in most cases you can make payments .
Drilling a well is a DYI???
Why didnt they ask her if she was working?
The buyers and their systems inspector are at fault. The seller had no obligation to disclose anything beyond that required by state law. Any research into the local water table could have revealed the variability of the water supply. Further, it’s insane for the buyers to think they can learn the expertise to redrill their own well, even if the equipment to do so was free. They were naïve to assume the well was good year-round. Call it baptism by fire.
Maybe it didn't run dry on the old owners.
Spending $80 a month on laundry. Sounds like they have a couple kids. And they used more water then the previous owners.
And possibly the last few unusually hot and dry years made it worse.
If professionals want 25.000 for a good job, and you can get fully functional equipment for the job for 5.000, then there is 20.000 in expertise in that job. If you do not have that expertise, do not try to DIY it! Especially if your water supply depends on it.
That of course is if that 24.000 quote is not a ripoff. Get a second and third quote.
When deciding on well vs municipal water:
1. How is the water quality for these two options?
2. How often do you have to redo the work (new well/new pipes)?
And one aspect they didn't cover: if they buy the used rig, they still would have to buy the actual pipes, pumps, controls, and everything else involved. There is a lot more to a well than just digging a hole. It sounds like a nightmare.
I looked it up real quick, yes, you can rent well drilling rigs...
build the well... its a one time cost, city water means you pay them each month after paying them to install it.
To the caller: it's good that you are learning to conserve water. The demand you are placing on the well is obviously too much. But notice that you even said by cutting back, you are getting by. Consider that another choice you can make is not spending anything on well drilling or city piping, but just continue to treat water as a precious commodity and teach your kids how to not waste it. You said yourself the the well runs dry twice a year. That implies that it fills back with water if you let it.
A call in four months: “my wife and I diy’d a well into our limestone foundation and now our house is falling apart.”
Just put it on a credit card. Speaking of does anyone know how long you have to wait until Visa stops calling every week? I told Lindsey from Visa several times that you gave me the limit so I spent it and I'm not paying it back. Mastercard does not treat me like this so I will take my business elsewhere. Discover won't turn my card back on so I stopped using that too.
You can have water delivered. It’s a lot cheaper and I do mean by the truckload.
I wouldn’t consider this a DIY project. Even if you “know” how to do it, not worth the headache.
Buy the well drilling rig then rent it out, boom, turn your problem into a side business.
Somebody who doesn't know what they are doing, trying to drill a well through rock will destroy a well drilling rig pretty quick. Which is why they couldn't find anyone to rent them one.
be crazy if they hit oil with that drill they want to buy
And up through the ground come a bubblin crude.
Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.
Not sure where the caller is. But some states,IIRC like IL, you don't have rights to oil if you find it> . Which is insane to me.
Catchment tank is a way of life for many people, Calling a water truck to fill your tank is about $300
I think the answer is to take out another mortgage and tap into dirty water, guarantees you are fine if you pay bills and pipes work in your house. No pumps, wells, etc to fail. Also regarding water pressure issue, you can have a regulator installed but your plumber should be able to help with all of that.
As a geologist….good luck ✌️ least waste of money will be connecting to city
Not a fan of going town water, think of the ongoing costs, and utilities keep going up and up. Not sure about the rainfall, but get rainwater tanks in addition to the well, and most importantly, don't live the "everything on-tap" city lifestyle. Conservation and management of resources is the big thing out in the country, it's a mindset. I suspect the emergency fund will go a long way for tanks and pumps. Wells are not the only way to get water.
I have lived on well water for most of my life, and I would invest in the city water tap, no doubt. It would be worth taking a modest mortgage or personal loan and paying it off asap. But if they are going to stick with the risky well route, a cistern system, which we have had, increases reliability greatly. We have also frac'd a well with good results.
Go onto city water!!!! These people are not thinking clearly! Save to hook up to public water, see if there are any grants available to help! DON'T BUY A RIG, ITS JUST MORE HEADACHE AND MONEY! SAVE for public water!!
Get compost toilets and a cistern.
I think only people who are specifically familiar with well drilling can really answer this.
I don't know how reliable a used one is. Or how can you make that determination?
Cause it seems like that's the option to go with, though I don't know what the potential consequences are of one that's not great aside from if it simply just doesn't work.
As soon as you fix it, you will start saving for the emergency fund again.
In some places in some situations, homeowners can apply for grants to cover some, or all, of the cost of having city water brought to the house. Personally, I prefer being on a well, but I know most folks want the security of paying the city to take care of it.
Never know how much you take water for granite till its gone..my pipes froze last year and we had no water for 3 days.. IT SUCKED!!
for granted, not granite. LOL
@@analyticalchick3064 go without water for 3 days and you wouldn't give a damn how its spelled!!lol..thanks for the correction though
They need to get a loan and get water!
are there any water trucks/companies that can deliver water? i know there are some for filling pools.
we had well water, personally i think they are the best, but life got so much easier on city water, except the taste of it.
when our well went out our family of 7 it was a pain.... but luckily most of the time i believe they just had the drillers come and drill further.
i would think if you buy that equipment wouldn't you need to licensed or trained on it?
I’d just buy it, use it, and sell it - you’re going to be out a fraction of what you paid in the end
Stupid take, you've spent 3 years doing this, Save up the extra 18K you need and get city water. It will be another 18 months to save it up.
George, its not just about inspecting the equipment. Not all drills are the same. You have to look at it's capacity. Even the caller said the one they were considering buying is designed for "sand", but they need to drill through rock.
No, the caller said all the other ones they've looked at are for sand, which is why they are considering the possibly broken one.
@@thomasdalton1508 oh ok, thanks
Save up and connect to city water. The well thing is ridiculous.
Don't buy a house without a fully funded emergency fund.
Yes, that what my long life friend said back in 2019 and now he can't buy a house. 🤡🤡🤡
@@panzaverde20 Aww diddums. Perhaps he needs to live in a cheaper neighbourhood then. 🤡
Pay someone to drill the well and be done with it. Save up the money, dont waste your time on buying a new or used rig.
They've been living with it for 3 years. Just save the money and hook up to the city water
The obvious answer here is to borrow money and get this sorted ASAP so you can have drinking water! Of course these dorks won't admit something so obvious in case Dave gets mad, but water isn't a nice to have.
The average price for drilling a well is $5,000-$10,000. Crazy that they are getting an estimate of $24,000. Is it really THAT deep and THAT rocky? Why would you not buy a well driller and sell it then after?
That completely depends on location. A couple family members in Nebraska, where water is easy to get to, recently paid 15K to 20K for new wells. My BIL in Wyoming just paid 50K.
Forget the well Get town water
When people are facing major expenses I rarely hear them start analyzing how long to save up the money . Ok you need 22k to have this done properly how long to save 22k . Maybe it’s a year or something . If it’s a short time I feel that could alter the decision calculus but instead it often feels like once the number is high everyone just assumes they will never have the money .
Why don’t they rent the well digger for 5 k and spend 10k in total?
How often do they flush?
CISTERN. Harvest rain water to an underground water scistern for . I looked it up and a high quality underground cistern is of 550 gallons is only around 1000 dollars (one thousand ) Just google under ground cistern.
They should have just gone for the city water unless it's Flint I guess.
Rain Catchment? Get some of those underground plastic cisterns.
THIS WOMAN is ready to dig wells through bedrock qnd willing to go without if need be.. her husband is a lucky man.. shame on all the week minded people crying all the time about not being able to fund their lavish lifestyles..
They might want to tap into the city water i wouldn’t want to risk the new well running dry. They just need to go all out and save the money and tap into the city they could out themselves into a worse situation.
They must live in the REAL country. It was 5k for us to get off well water and hook up to city water. That was in 2019 but still….
Matching twins
I’m assuming they have no equity and couldn’t get a line of credit? We don’t want to take on more debt but this would be a property improvement. Draining you Mr emergency fund when you have equity to tap seems risky….
City water hands down wells are a pain in the ass plus ya dont know what quality the water is my neighbor has sulpher water its discusting
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5000 gal house tank,
and haul water with a truck/trailer or service
I lived off grid where water was 8K ft deep
My town grew up in, you could pay the fire dept to come fill your pool with their tanker truck back then. Was thinking possibly looking into a tank and doing something like that to supplement for when it goes dry
Just get a loan and purchase the new one. See how simple it can be.