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DIY Chlorinating & Cleaning a Dug Well
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- Do-it-yourself shock chlorination treatment with household bleach, an easy and cheap way to disinfect your own dug well. Learn how-to disinfect, pump-out, scrub-out and flush-out a dug well and water-system. You can have sparkling clean water for less than $100.
Wow, made 5 years ago and just found your Awesome video. Pete, thank you for making everything you do visual. I own a house with a surface well; all I hear in videos is talk, jargon, and I couldn't figure out anything. Your video made the difference, Pete. Thank you for being down to earth on this. Got 41 bacteria counts, 3 types e.coli when analyzed. Scary.... Rainy today, so i sprayed bleach all over the outside and took out small cement cover sprayed the inside. Getting bleach and all ready for doing full job tomorrow, temperature permitting. Thank you, sir :)
Thank you for your kind comment.
I've been hunting everywhere on UA-cam to see how to do this, and I finally found your video... I live just outside of Halifax, so it was great to learn this from a fellow Nova Scotian. I'll check out the rest of your videos! Thanks so much.
Thank you for the nice comment.
Good luck with your well.
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This is a very helpful and appreciated video. I have a similar well in West Quebec and your video has reinforced some of the practices I've used.
Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful.
Thx Pete - Exactly what I needed to see before I tackle mine.
Thanks, and good luck.
Thanks Pete, moving to Bridgewater area very helpful.
Welcome to the South Shore.
Thank you for making this video. Appreciate it 👍
Thanks for the video and explanation.. great work
Anyone else notice the huge spider when he removed the cover?. Also are you in Bridgewater Nova Scotia? Great video BTW.
Thank you for your comment.
That's my guard spider.
Conquerall Mills.
Excellent way of cleaning up the well
Thanks for your nice comment.
Common sense way to shock a well. Thanks for the info.
Great video. One question though- if needed how would you change out the submersible pump? Looks like the line is 5' down with no way at "grab" it
Thanks for your comment.
To change out the submersible pump I'd use a ladder and climb down into the well.
Thank you Sir.
Great video. Thank you for this. I have a well similar to this for my seasonal camper. Would you happen to know, or have any info on how this, along with the trenched line, can be winterized?
Thank you for your comment and question.
As long as your water lines are below the frost line you should have no problem with your lines or well.
If your water lines are exposed to the cold you'll need to cover them with heavy insulation or wrap them with heat tape.
@@BasaPete Great, thank you again! Very helpful!!
Great video, thank you!
I have a hand dug well brick lined that I was told is 100 Years old we still use it for our everyday water ( wash, bath and some time drinking water) the well is 18ft Deep 3 ft wide. If I did this to my well how can I assure the well will refill??? Matter of fact how does the well fill back up anyway??? The water know is about 9 ft deep
I assume your 100 year old well is a good well and never goes dry. A good well will refill in a matter of hours, maybe longer in the dry season. My well is spring-fed, never goes dry, takes less than 12 hours to refill. The water comes from underground and it's the best kind of well. Some wells get their water from ground and/or surface seepage, which can be effected by the amount of rain. Which type of well do you have, spring-fed or ground-seepage or both?
Good video, I was wondering how much javex to use. My well started to smell recently. Didn't know what to do
Thank you for the comment.
And, good luck with your well.
I have a old hand dug well that I'd like to put into use, however it doesn't have a liner. It's a concrete tube that goes down about 3 feet and then it's just dirt all the way down. Roughly 30 ft deep 3 ft diameter. Any suggestions? Is it even possible to put a liner on it?
I've never seen a dug well that deep with dirt walls. It must be hard-packed ground. If the water tests good I see no reason why you couldn't use it as is. If the water needs to be treated with chlorine the dirt walls shouldn't be a problem.
As for a liner, it is possible, but could be very expensive. A 30" well crock might fit, it has a 36" outside diameter. If not, there's a 24" well crocks with a 29" outside diameter. You'd have to have a machine to lower them into place. Could be tricky. I'd test the water first before I'd attempt a big job like this. Good luck.
Wonder how that spider got in that well? Great video btw! 👍
Thank you for your comment.
That's my guard spider. Ha!Ha!
How it got there I have no idea.
Thanks for the video will have to do this in a few weeks. Eastern shore lifestyle ....
Good luck.
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My house didn’t have so much as even a sediment filter. Installed one. Also I assume you had to drain the hot water tank and flush that as well from chlorinating? Quite a chore to do but that’s wells I guess 🤷♂️ grew up on city water supply so never had such problems. Do have access to city water from the street. Kinda wanna keep the well though.
Thank you for your comment.
No problem flushing the hot water tank. I usually flash it annually due to sediment.
Thanks so much for this!
Glad I could help.
My shallow well water at times will do the same. Mine 3’ wide 18’ deep. I don’t really have a spot to pour out all 600 plus gallons into the yard. Do you think I can pump out most of the water onto the ground before treatment and properly mix the bleach to the right concentration of what’s left run it through the house and then drain? Test results confirmed choliform bacteria and I blow through a hot water heater in 3 years time. Also did your well happen to make sediment at the rock at the bottom? I thought of maybe mashing the rock at the bottom to stir up the sdiment and use a small pump to pump that silty water out. Thoughts on this? Not many around me use shallow wells if they do it’s likely for irrigation only.
Thank you for your nice comment.
Yes, my well has sediment.
Yes, you could pump out most of the water before treatment. Just make sure to wash down the wall of the well with bleach.
If you have a septic system, draining a large amount of bleached water into it is not advised.
What if you have tree roots in a dug well?
Thank you for your question.
I've had tree root problems in my well before. First, I dug down on the outside of the well to the tree roots and cut them off. Then I pulled the roots out from inside the well. After that, I plugged the holes on the outside of the well with cement. The roots never came back.
Great video Pete. Our Dug well is filling up with silt. wonder if the similar pump as the one you rented in your video would clean the silt, or do I need a professional pump truck? any ideas or suggestion would be appreciated. Thank you.
Thank you for your nice comment.
To answer your question: It depends on the weight of the silt. If it's heavy you probably need a special pumping system.
I've used an average size pump to remove light silt and also a submersible pump. The submersable worked best for light silt.
Thank you appreciate your vdio and your explanation
Thank You. Glad I could help.
How often is this process necessary? Moving to the outskirts of lunenburg, super excited ! Such a beautiful area !
Thank you for your comment.
I clean my well about every 3 - 5 years, or sooner if necessary.
Excellent video especially doing everything yourself.
Why did you do the chlorine shock treatment prior to pumping out the mud and debris from the well, I thought it would be preferable to do the chlorine shock after well had been cleaned.
Thank you for your comment.
You can pump out your well before the chlorine shock treatment, no problem. The only reason I pumped out after the chlorine shock treatment was to save on pump rental.
Could all the taps be turned on to drain the well instead of using a pump?
Thanks for the question.
If I had used the taps to drain the well it would have lost the prime to the house pump and that can cause a big problem.
Thanks for watching
Very nice video, thanks! I have a well which I did this to last year, and now that spring is here, we are getting heavy rain and snow melt in the catchment area, and we can sense some smell and taste that we associate with sulfur / iron bacteria. Do you think it's necessary to do this whole procedure on, say, a semi-annual shock routine? Thoughts welcome, and thanks (also a Nova Scotian, although transplanted to Ontario :-)).
Thank you for you nice comment.
I would get your water tested before treating it again. You may need a filtration system. I get my well tested annually. So far, it remains clear.
Just bleach? My well is about 20ft deep definitely not as shallow as only 12ft same procedure?
Yes, just bleach. You will have to increase the amount of bleach for a larger volume of water. Good luck.
Hello how are you this morning. Enjoyed your video.
I'm in the process of remediating a 30 year old well consisting of concrete Crocks. Well is approximately 8 ft deep. I'm particularly interested in remediating the bottom base of the well what some folks refer to as the well pit. When I say remediating I mean removing the collected silt including the the base layer of Old Stone replacing it with new Stone. I am considering using a vacuum pump to remove the silted base layer as opposed to hand digging. Any suggestions in this regard?
As for the pump recommendation, you suggested a submersible as opposed to a conventional as it did a better job of removing silt is this correct?
Also did you pretreat the pump and suction line with disinfectant before using in the well?
Thanks, I'm taking it easy on this very hot morning. The first time I pumped out my well I used a centrifugal pump, which worked great. The only problem, it didn't suck the last foot of water once the pump lost its prime. Since then I've used an electric submersible pump, which pumps right down to the stones at the bottom of the well.
Are you planning to remove the stones or just the sediment?
Yes, I used a submersible pump. It did a good job at removing sediment. Recently, I pumped out an 8 ft well that was full of moss. The pump's filter screen kept plugging, so I had to raise the pump and clean the moss from the filter screen. It took a while, but I managed to clean out all the moss from the well.
No, I did not disinfect the pump or hose. However, the well was full of chlorinated water, which I figured would disinfect the pump and hose.
Why would you need to chlorine shock your well? This was explained in the beginning. I have a well exactly like this but it doesn’t have a pump. Water is crystal clear. Can you make a video in your pump
Thanks for your comment.
I shocked my well because organic material is seeping in from underground.
My 1/2 horse-power shallow well jet pump works great and very easy to install. No plans to make a video.
Hello and thank you so much for this video! I am having a horrible smell from my well water and I know I need to shock it, but I had no idea how to do that, but your video really helped. My hand dug well is very deep over 60' and over 50 years old, so there's no way I can mix it or clean it, like you did. Could I just run the water back into the well through a hose to mix it? Thank you for any advice you may give me!
60 feet deep! Wow! Running the hose might work.
If my well was 60 feet deep, I'd tie a large heavy object (Something that will sink) to a long rope and bob it up and down until I reached the bottom of the well. Good luck. And, thank you for your comment.
@@BasaPete Thank you for the reply and the idea! I will give that a try once I can get the plain bleach tomorrow.
you need to let it sit their for 24 hours least before proceeding to flush
Yes 24 hours, that's correct.
I just took ownership of a piece of land with a slightly larger well than yours in this video. It is about 50 feet deep but the water level is at about 25 feet just now in the very dry period we are going through. I am in Europe and the well is lined with granite and possibly sandstone. It's not easy to see as there is a covering of moss most of the way down. The water smells very stagnant and when I pulled up a few buckets to check, I also pulled up a couple of water snakes abour 4in long. I have yet to add a pump to run the water off, so my question is, should I add bleach to the well and let it sit until I set up the pump system, or wait until I have done the whole setup? Great video thank you.
Thank you for your comment.
As long as you shock treatment the well with bleach at least 24hrs before you pump it out you should be ok. Be sure to test your water following the treatment and cleaning.
@@BasaPete that’s great thank you Pete. I will get the pump and everything ready soon and let you know how I get on.
@@gordonmitchell729 Good luck.
You have your garden hose pretty far from the well. I saw the pipe at the bottom of the well but what does it take to get the water from the well to your hose? I know that you need to run a pipe but what do you use to get the water flow pressure to the hose? Thanks in advance.
Thank you for your comment.
I have a 3/4 hp jet-pump under the house that pumps the water through the garden hose.
@@BasaPete Thank you sir!
What does he mean at 4:30 when he says, "stop spraying, don't want to pump system dry." Is he referring to the gasoline pump that's running?
Thanks for your question.
I'm referring to the garden hose coming from the house. Once the water level in the well, drops below the foot valve and you keep spraying water from the garden hose you'll pump the main water line dry and lose your prime. Not good.
Basa Pete thanks!!
NS, AB and NL websites recommend no fast pumping ±10l/min which about my 1/2HP jet pump rate. What are your take on that?
10 litres per minute is a guideline for flushing chlorinated water from your system using an outside tap and garden hose. Actually, most 1/2 hp pumps using an 1/2" line would be hard pressed to exceed this guideline. As far as pumping out your well, using a portable centrifugal pump, there is no guideline that I know of.
VERY GOOD
Thank You.
Do you drink from this well?
Yes, we do.
Your well is twelve feet deep but how many feet from well cover to top of water?
I ask because I have a well that is 13 feet well cover to top of water then 7feet of water in the well so 20 feet from well cover to silt.
You think a trash pump will do the job? Or should I get a submersible?
I have about 3 - 4 feet of space between water surface and well lid.
On my last well cleaning job, I used a heavy duty submersible pump and it worked great. It's lighter to use, no need to prime, and it pumps more silt off the bottom than the suction trash pump.
Basa Pete thanks for quick reply. By chance would you have the model of the submersible pump you used to get that silt off the bottom?
It was a rental, not sure of the model.
I am going to do this soon. My dad had this 35' well hand-dug in 1956. When "city" water came through in 1974, dad signed on for that, and the well hasn't been used since. Do you think it's still safe to use? How would you re-start the flow? Do you think a sump pump lowered into the well would work?
Hand-dug, back when hard work was a part of life. The well should still be safe, providing it was covered properly and has no surface contaminates, dead animal, etc... This summer, I pumped out a well with a submersible pump. It worked great! Better than a suction pump.
@@BasaPete YES IN INDIA ,IN RAIPUR I AM DEPENDANT ON HAND DUG WELL ..DO THIS TODAY ONLY ..THANKS
@@dhirendrasao6263 Good Luck.
This is great! I'm buying a house with a well that needs a shock. Do I need to use an external pump like this, or can I just run it through the house system? Presumably with a hose to the street since I assume I don't want that bleach in my septic tank?
You grow some big spiders on 3:38 inside the well casing.
Yea, that's my guard spider. I call him, 'Venom.'
NOt only did I enjoy watching this, this has really inspired me to 'attack' our dirty old 15 foot well we have here
Thanks for your nice comment. And good luck.
This was a great video, but I think you may have overdone the chlorine. 634 gallons of water is correct for a 12-foot well, 36" in diameter, but if you multiply 634 by .0002 (that is, by 200 parts per million or .02%) you get about an eighth of a gallon, or two cups. So your well should be nice and clean, and your policy of pumping it out twice no doubt took care of the chlorine.
Oops! I missed the bit about household bleach not being pure chlorine. Your figures are correct.
Thanks for your comment. Yea, the original calculation was a bit complicated. So I simplified it by converting 200 parts per million to .02%, adding that to the amount of water in the well and then dividing that number by the percentage of sodium hypochlorite in the household beach that I had, which was 8.25%.
Example: 634 US Gals. + .02% = 17.7 US Gals., divided by 8.25 = 6.12 US Quarts of household bleach.
Thank you , poor you and those bugs
Yea, blackflies are a torment. Thanks.
Im I the only one that sees the spider?
Someone else mentioned the spider, too.
It's my guard spider. It keeps out other bugs.
anyone in nova scotia i can hire to do this for me? Annapolis County, a cottage property with dug well
I dont have an outside tap. the water pump is outside.
Why can you do it yourself? It's quite easy.
Your video is very good. Makes it look easy. And I doubt most would be as thorough as you were. Just thought having it done would be one thing off the long list. New to me property.
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Did you at least disinfect that freaking spider at 3:02 ?
That's my guard spider, keeps other bugs out of the well.
Basa Pete thats a nope spider. Nope not gonna let it live.
Bad day for the spider imagine being in there with all that bleach
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