I dug a 40 foot well in my backyard
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2023
- Drill your own DIY water well using a pressure washer and PVC pipe
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Sadly, many municipalities have rules against his. They will tell you that its for health safety. But really its for you to pay them for water.
Most cities operate their water utility at a loss, not a profit, so they usually aren't making money off water. The rules are mainly there to make sure people don't pollute the groundwater, which is a resource shared by many people.
City/County rules do not allow personal well digging. You have to pay about $10,000 as fee to county to be able to dig a well, plus proper engineering docs. This guy just shot himself in his foot by creating this video. So sad.
@rsinghglobal I live in Creek County Oklahoma. We are about as free here as can be in this country. This would be a problem here. This is why wells have to be registered.
Don't get me wrong. I love the video. My uncle punched a 29 footer in Laport County Indiana. He was old school AF! He passed away last October. The world truly lost something when he died.
@@rsinghglobal My county requires only a small permit fee ($100 I think?) with a map of the proposed site, which I submitted and paid. Every county is different.
@@BadHomeownerDo you mind sharing the state at least? Cool to hear someplace sane.
Wow it would be great to live outside of alluvium or glacial till and be able to go more than 1' without hitting cobbles and boulders. This was a cool project tho. Well MacGuyverd
When I did mine I wanted 45 ft. That’s what the city does for all their sprinkler systems. Once I got to 27’ everything I sent down just disappeared. I tried bentonite but it didn’t help. I did gravel around the head and it’s been pumping beautiful since 2013. I guess I did it right. It runs 3-4 hours a week and even after a drought that lasted over a month never have I been short of water. If I had to do it again I would use galvanized pipe and just use a jack hammer with a home built fitting. That’s actually how the guys that do it for a living here do it. Except they have a 100lb sled that slams it down. My first pump was a cheap Lowe’s pump. It lasted 10 years. I now have a Gould which pulls way more more. I only use it for watering not my house water.
I bought a house that has a well and I didn’t even know it. It’s in a suburb. One day my uncle told me it’s a well so I hired a guy to pull it all out and change out everything. My other neighbor told me the previous owner digged it himself about 35 yrs ago. The well is only 18 ft deep so I just use to water plants.
Get it tested to be safe. If it has bad chemicals, you don’t want that in your plant, if edible! Testing is cheap!
What an awesome video. I'll be doing this on our ten acre partial me and my wife recently purchased.
Awesome project, the pump plumbing video would be appreciated.
Wow very well done my friend, impressive.
Awesome job young man. Love this & love that no one has to know about it but you.
And us
Excellent video, thank you!
I like it!! May have to give it a try.
Good back up well to operate commodes and get a purifier to be able to use water for emergency baths and cooking if main deep well goes out!
Great job!!
great video man, my type of UA-cam
We should all be free to do this.
Nice work!
That was most cool. tHanks for the video.
(I've wanted to drill horizontally to put in a drain. The idea is to go about ten feet and end up with a 4" pipe. My problem: I think about it too much and don't experiment with drilling techniques. tHanks again for the video!)
Thank you!
Great work. Really enjoyed your video
Thanks!
Should have put it over that roof of that building next to you and that way it would support that long length
while feeding.
🎉🎉🎉ty very much for this informative knowledge
This was a good video! I've subscribed!
Good job!
for that style pump would be best if you put a foot valve on the bottom of the 1 1/4 in pipe. pump will last longer and never lose its prime.
I'm using a check valve instead. There's a well point at the bottom of the 1-1/4 pipe so you can't put a foot valve there.
Good job man
If you use some plywood with some old inner tube around the pipe will help you alot ,,I did this 50 years ago junky pump & old pipe ,,all that was available!!
every 4 - 8 inches you would hit a rock the size of your head or chest at my house... XD
We live in Florida here you dig a hole 6 ft and sure will find water
Well to get water where I am you have to go 400 ft and 390 of that is solid rock
Luckily I do not have to go that far!
Same, I live at 5k ft in the Rockies and just spent 40k to get my well done. 400ft deep @20 gallons a minute
$40k is a bargain! I’m at 5800’ in Utah. The greed is rampant. I’m being quoted $60k for 300’ (local water level is about 220’)
Who installed it? Give them a plug for reasonable prices….
@@chuckm1320 western water wells out of Helena
Damnnn thats some rust free well water
well it looks good when it comes out fast, but I'm definitely getting some iron buildup inside the pipes as time passes.
I enjoyed watching this video about drilling a backyard well, but I’m not sure if it would work in my yard. We have a lot of rocks in our backyard soil, and I think that might make it difficult to drill a well. It would be great to have the freedom to drill my own well, but I don’t think it’s practical for us.
Depending on how big the rocks are, you could try driving a well with a steel well point. That can help move some of the rocks out of the way if they are smaller as you drive, but you probably cannot drive down 40 feet with that method. Points get very hard to drive past ~20ft or so.
Nice
how did you make or where did you get the pressure washer lance / extension from? thank you for sharing this video!
They're available on Amazon, I used these: amzn.to/3UtVPxB
So different to where I live. Here, there's barely 6 inches of topsoil, and then you hit bedrock. There's no such thing as digging anything much by hand.
I would recommend not doing that so close to your house … kinda creating a pretty shallow cavity underground right next to your foundation..
besides that this is how you put in a shallow well. If you lived I. Florida or South Georgia this is a good way to do it haven’t ever done it anywhere else personally but I’m sure this is a very geographically dependent method haha…
It's next to my shed, but yea id probably do it 10 ft away next time.
Sweet
Great video job well done the horse next to well good idea what is the electrical voltage on your pump?
This pump works on either 110/220 volts.
We have shale here id need to suck the stones out maybe even drill though bigger lumps
dude, you may live in the only part of the world where you could do what youre doing. if i get down "10 before hitting silt stone and expanding clay. its wild to see soil that deep.
I went through quite a lot of hard clay, but no rock luckily.
@@carmichaelmoritz8662 where? there's no city water involved here.
Do you live in Texas?
You've got dirt in the water - pushed up out of the - 2in pipe, running *right back inside* the 4in pipe. Some of it is washed away, but I'll bet some goes all the way down to the bottom of the 4in pipe. Seems like if you diverted that dirty water, it would be better, easier, to push the 2in pipe down.
Thanks for the ideas, showing us your work. This is definitely a cool idea!
where is your well
What I see running back down the hole you're drilling could've been taken care of with a 4" to 2 " reducer and you wouldn't need to cement it...just from what I'm seeing...but great job...anytime I see anyone trying to figure out on there own is inspiring
Figuring it out on my own is the only way I know how to do anything. For better and for worse...
@@BadHomeowner Yes, and the last thing you want is some "help" .
Never build a well to close to the house... the water erosion can damage your foundation.
Use clear primer.
Would it be possible to cycle or reuse the old water
There's a 33-foot limit to using suction to draw water upwards, so you're at the max without going submersible. (Suction above 33' will cold-boil the water)
Yes, but that's measured from the water head, not the depth of the pipe.
Pipe can be 1000ft long and you can still pump it with a shallow pump, as long as the top of the water table is
@BadHomeowner Yeah, you're right. You did mention the water table was 10 or 15 feet. That's awesome, I'm jealous! I'm looking for a way to do this here, but water is at 100 feet with mostly clay to drill through.
Great job on your project.
The horse head water source tell me how and when installed it to well casing
I would be so paranoid about having it so close to my foundation, 🤷🏻 but like dude said above, how the hell didn’t you hit bedrock 😂 over here in lower Pa by West Virginia it’s like all rock. Out my way if your a home owner and don’t own a mini or a bobcat you would be considered under prepared haha. Nice job dude lol funny video. And that blue pump you have lasted me about 2 years befor the seal went. Just a little fyi, I had that same exact one. I get my water from a natural aquifer.
Oh yea. And I’ll sub buddy 😇
Well it's by my shed foundation, not the house. And the groundwater recharges quickly. So it will be ok. I don't think I'm going to create a sinkhole --but if I do, I'll definitely put that on UA-cam lol.
I'm closer to the coast, so I think rock is way down there, like hundreds of feet.
@@BadHomeowner sinkhole video 😂 😂
I need to see your permit. You can’t drill a well without the governments permission…😂
Hi, Question, Could you have just skipped the 20 feet of 4-inch pipe, since the 2-inch went down beyond that, then the 1 1/4-inch down further beyond that? Thanks!
Yes you could. I wanted a 4 inch casing to make the initial digging somewhat easier, and in order to install a well cap (which comes in 4 and 6 inch sizes) to keep out debris and stabilize the 1-1/4 in pipe. And some areas may require a casing of a certain diameter if you want it to be "legit". But no it's not technically required.
in my state, the well has to be permitted by the States dept of engineering. then after that you have to fight the county.
How would they find it?
I nearly fell down a well, because i could not see that well.
I'm in Ohio next to a creek I don't think I'd make it 5 feet - was enjoyable to watch though.
Maybe 5 feet is all you need!
hmm, I have a quest to find undisturbed soil so I can sink a pier and build a 4 car garage with 2 garage lifts in them. This working on cardboard or a creeper on bumper concrete in the driveway sucks, esp after you had a lift at the old house.. I also know there is a 2-4 foot band of sandstoneburied under the top soil. And we know, Half a mile from my house, there is still that band of sandstone - I saw a foundation being built and saw that same band of sandstone. Finally, about 40 yards from where I want to build, an excavator guy found that band of sandstone, so we know it's there. Joe dug a trench and to catch any runoff. It was filled in later, and just don't remember the details. I'll sleep on it, but why not do what you did here and sink 4 inch or 6 inch pipe as the "sleeve" and fill it concrete as my pier ?
Cone drill bit = step bit
I'd like to see you add a filter to this to make it potable.
Yea I still need to do a water test to see if a filter can even make it potable. Maybe a future video
How does this work in mountainous regions with clay and stone?
Hi, Is there a separate video yet for the plumbing? I think I will invest and try your methods.
I will work on getting that out
How did you know where your water table was at?
How did you know if you hit water?
I didn't know exactly where it was, but I'm at 10ft elevation above sea level so I figured it would be around that deep. My water table starts at around 8-9ft. You'll know you hit water because you can hear it splash when you lower the next pipe in.
How much was your permit?
Is it still working well? No pun intended.
Also, would it be good to run a 4" pvc sleeve all the way down and have holes in it to keep out large debri and dirt?
Yea it's been working for over a year now.
Technically you could run 4" much deeper than I did, but it takes a lot more time than digging with the 2" pipe because you have to remove ~4x as much material. I think you'd want an actually drilling rig for that.
Cone?? You mean step bits? Either way you got some pretty good ideas
We call them unibits
Sink hole?
I’m assuming by the layout you have city water. Looks like its time for you to get a backflow test every year.
Even if the two systems are not connected? Why yearly backflow test??
@@jimgraham290 because the systems could be interconnected at some point by someone who doesnt understand what they are doing, the public works side must be protected from backflow. Backflow is a yearly test in most states and countries that test them.
How you secure the jet nozzle at the end of the pvc? When you add another 10 ft piece do you simply pull out the nozzle and feed it back again? What keeps the nozzle at the bottom and not float/kickbacking back out?
This specific type of nozzle has jets that shoot backward as well. You can see it in the photos here: amzn.to/4c8ndsG
Yea for each new 10ft section, I just pull the hose out, attach the new pipe, and drop the hose back down again.
@@BadHomeowner much appreciate the quick reply and clarification. Im assuming you didnt hit any rock and if you did you would start a new hole?
@@makethingshappen8427 I didn't hit any. And it depends on how big the rock is, I guess, as to whether you need to start a new whole or try to wriggle your way around it.
@@BadHomeowner thanks ill give it a go
I wonder what kind of filtering would be needed to make this potable. RO?
Depends on the water. Amazon has water test kits to find tds and specific ions. Water treatment for solids is easy but high tds requires more work to make it potable. Water for outside use is ok below 1,000 tds but water for house drinking is likely 200 ppm or less. Iron leaves staining and needs to be removed if it is high. There is quite a bit involved depending on your situation.
Yea I may get it tested here soon, just for kicks. I doubt it's drinkable, and I'm not sure if it can be filtered enough to be drinkable. But I'll figure that out at some point!
Did you use a blader tank?
Yes, it's a 7 gallon pressure tank
Are you using a jetting hose with the pressure washer or just the standard wand end? Thanks
Using a regular pressure washer hose with a jetting nozzle on the end
Thanks I was confused, it looked like the ryobi pressure nozzle on a wand.
Where are you located? Approximately? Planning a shallow well to keep a pond topped off once it's dug.
I'm on the east coast of Virginia
That's one of the things this well is doing. I have a float valve in my pond that automatically fills it up, hooked to my well pump.
@@BadHomeowner That's interesting. My pond, if it comes to fruition, will be fairly close to an above ground pool that has power run out to it. The plan is to upgrade the power then the well pump and aerator can be powered from there. We'll see how it goes...Lol
Any info or links on the float valve? Thanks. :)
Right beside your old house.
It's right beside my shed. But yea, shed is same age as the house :)
How does one find out where the water table is
Some counties publish data on permitted wells in the area and where they hit water. If not, you gotta dig and find it yourself!
how is that pump working at 40 feet? i didn’t see an injector go down the pipe. Is water table less than 25 ft down? Shallow well pumps typically don’t work past 25 and jet pumps require an injector (i think).
Good question. It works because the TOP of the water table is only about 15 feet below the surface in my case. As long as the top of the water table is
The main reason shallow pumps can't work at, say, 200ft is because typically those depths reach into an aquifer which isn't "connected" to the water table, e.g. often there's a layer of rock in between. And so the water table at ~15ft doesn't "count" in that case.
I'm sure someone else can give a better technical explanation, but that's basically how/why it works.
Its sad there’s probably more wells in africa than in cities and communities in the USA.
That's the reason one of my favorite channels on UA-cam is www.youtube.com/@h2omechanic
Hey
How much water you think you used to drill well??
With pressure water?
I estimate about 200 gallons.
If that is a one pipe pump,
In some states and/localities, it is illegal to drill such a well. Or there is a depth limit, 18 feet is typical.
Right, I'd recommend looking up your local rules before doing this kind of project.
How did the galvanized pipe and hand pump get put in?
I dug a hole and stuck it in there! It's connected to the well pump.
@@BadHomeowner ahh I see
come to my place and try to dig a well.
Whats with the parachute yer wearing?
It's a camelbak. It was hot outside and wanted to carry around some water
i did not see setting up the shut off
Did you have water tests done to see if it was drinkable?
Yes I just did that recently! ua-cam.com/video/Anw4TQYVyFU/v-deo.html
Why did you assemble the entire 40’ well point section prior? Couldn’t you have assembled it as you were lowering it? I understand you don’t want to lose it, but it seems really hard to feed the 40’ into the hole
For one person doing it yourself, you'd be holding a many feet of pipe with one hand while somehow cementing the next pipe on top all while it dangles over the abyss -- no thanks.
You really need a 2nd person if you want to assemble it piece by piece as you lower into the casing. 40 ft of pipe is heavy, and because the couplings are on the interior of the pipe, there's basically nothing to grab onto.
Pre-assembling it and cramming it in there in one fell swoop was irritating, but very do-able by one person.
@@BadHomeowner That makes sense. Didn’t think about holding the many feet of assembled well point line as a solo DIYer.
Get rid of those elbow fittings and you will get my pressure and more water
Where did you find the 50’ hose and jetting nozzle for the pressure washer?
Hey, I just got it off Amazon.
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How much water do you estimate you used with jetting and other water you used? I would like to do this in an area without water, but wondering if its worth trucking in that much water. Thank you
Hard to tell exactly, but I'd estimate less than 200 gallons based on the amount of time the pressure washer was running.
@@BadHomeowner sounds good, that's an easy amount of water to bring. Thank you
I would have actually laid the PVC on the roof and stood higher on the ladder to get more vertical pressure but well done all in all
Yea that is probably a better idea -- since I have the roof there might as well use it!
@@BadHomeowner yea let it do the hard work lol and it's at a decent angle already to guide it right in!
Are there no rocks down there?
Not where I am on the East Coast, here it's alternating layers of sand and clay. In rocky areas you may have more difficulty with this approach.
@@BadHomeowner Ahh, For me in south western PA if we dig 6 inches we will likely hit shale so it won't work here.
@@BadHomeowner around where are you located on the east coast?
I've wondered about doing something similar. CA wants to control that however. They don't want you using anything without getting a taste of it themselves. Have you had the water tested? Wondering about what may have leached into a water table that shallow...
I haven't tested it, but it's unlikely I'd use it for drinking anyway. I ended up using it for my outdoor hoses and to run a sprinkler system. City water is very expensive here!
@@BadHomeowner Yep! Thought the same things for usage if I did something similar. Water costs keep going up and up here too, regardless of the amount of rainfall…
@@carmichaelmoritz8662Maybe if politicians would stop misappropiating funds and spending more money than they tax, they wouldn't have to create myths like, "global warming/climate change" in order to take more and more of our money.
What they don't know won't hurt them. I never tell the government anything about what I choose to do on my property.
What is the wand that you sent down the well pipe? Do you have a link to it?
power washer
Right here: amzn.to/3wJymkm
Isn’t this how Beverly hillbillies starts?😆
Where did you buy the well point in europe?
I am in the US so I don't know where you'd get one in EU.
Become ungovernable
What is the point of this?Obviously you're using water from your house to drill the will.You don't need the water.
I can use as much as I want to water my grass, fill up my fountain, etc without paying the city for their overpriced water. Also, it was fun!
8:59 At close to 40 ft. you're just cork-screwing the entire length of PVC at this point, not turning it at the bottom (or turning at a coupling, since you didn't use primer). FYI, at only 40ft, don't ever drink this water. I wouldn't even put my hands in it, because its going to be full of pesticides and herbicides. A good future project would be switching to steel pipe and see if you can get to a potable-safe depth. This would probably require a gas-powered machine. Nice job.
FYI the yellow cement doesn't need primer. You're right I definitely don't want to drink from any shallow well -- I'm using this for irrigation only.
@@BadHomeowner That type of cement is for CPVC, not PVC.
Orange is for cpvc, he used a correct glue, look at HD your next trip.
@@bud5084 wrong
LoL! "..wouldn't even put my hands in it..." LoL! There's more chemicals in city water than there is in well water!
After being filtered through at least 6 feet of earth, well water is cleaner than a lake you swim in and far cleaner than the ocean! And if you're still worried, boil it for 10 minutes! City people... I tell ya.... Geezus! This is a great video!
dude.... climb up the freakin ladder.... over here wrestling with the pipe from the 2nd step..... Just go up your ladder bro... hahaha
Paying for water is the biggest scam human society has ever seen I think. It’s in the fucking ground for free haha
It's definitely not free. It takes a lot of work and materials and time to get it out. So you can do all the work yourself, or pay someone else to extract it for you. Both are valid options.
Congratulations but you are lucky you didn’t hit a natural gas pocket or many others factor that could have blown up your whole neighborhood.
This is ridiculous. There's no gas in the ground at a 40 ft depth in coastal Virginia, and you don't blow up things by spraying water on it.
I need to go about 300ft will this work?
I don't think you can go that deep using this method.