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6" casing with a 4" pipe is standard here. Think about this though. You drill a 400' hole and get minimal but acceptable water. If over time it decreases and you want more water, fracking or redrilling are the options. If you use an 8" casing you can redrill the well you have deeper. With...

Not knowing your terrain, I will just throw this out. If you have a hill near the well you can pump to a cistern and gravity feed the house. It takes a lot of the hassle out of having a well. I have a well at the base of a hill and on the same flat the house sits on. I pump to a cistern on...

This is not rocket science. You need heat, water and cooking in winter. Cooking and water in summer with some way to keep the fridge and freezer operating. You do not need internet, tv or the multiple other ways we amuse ourselves. Heat and cooking if you do not want to spend time rounding...

You have to figure in line loss if you are going to run multiple hoses. For example, and this is just a rough example, with 200 feet of 5/8 hose I can squirt water about 15 feet. With another 100' added on the squirt distance drops down to half of that. This is with the HF pump. I have a...

I have been using the HF Drumond pump since 2017. It runs 7 to 8 hours per day minimum from spring to fall. It will handle two rainbird sprinklers at a time. Three is too many with a couple hundred feet of hose. I have about 2000 gallons of water per day to get rid of. It is either water...

I I had many of the same thoughts about the monthly power bill, solar well pumps and storage about 3 years ago. I already had power to the property, but only spring water. I had a well drilled. I went with an 8" casing as you can redrill through it if need be. You cannot do this with a 6'...

Storage is comforting, easier on a well pump by reducing start stop cycles, probably cheaper over time, and good insurance. When they drilled and first tested my well it produced 30gpm for 90 minutes and they shut it down before it went dry. It is 520' deep. I put a 1.5 hp pump in it, and...

I have 2 2100 gallon concrete cisterns. One is fed from a spring and is used for outside water. The other is fed from a 520' well and in turn feeds the house. The well pump is controlled by a float switch. The house is gravity fed. The well pump only runs every 4 to 6 weeks. When the...

I bought a mini for 8K in 2017. It had just under 3300 hours on it. It is at 3540 now. It dug the basememt, 100+ feet of trench for for retaining walls, tree stumps, electric conduit trenches, water lines, yada, yada, yada. I will dig the shop footings and pad with it. It has paid for...

I have two 2100 gallon cisterns sunk in the yard. They are concrete. One is for the well and one is for the spring. The well feeds the house, and it is controlled by a float valve. The spring cistern is for outside watering, and it has an overflow pipe that runs into an old pond. The well...

Perma Column Northwest out of Noxon MT said they would ship. They are about 5.5 hours away according to Mapquest. Menards is many times that distance.

Is there a preferred place to buy them, or does one just go to the closest business advertising Perma Columns on their builds? Is their a Simpson equivalent?

They make a hole saw kit just for this purpose. I just did 3 sinks. The kit consists of a diamond hole saw, a water cup, double sided tape and instructions. Basically you tape the cup down, fill it with water, the cup guides the saw, you go real slow until you are through the porcelain...

I did a house in it this summer. Good stuff, pricey, and the company is a PITA to work with. Delivery times ran 6-7 weeks when sales rep quoted 2-3 weeks. I had 18-19 weeks wait time for 3 deliveries.

Places that sell concrete septic tanks often sell cisterns. I have two 2100 gallon tanks buried in the yard. They have inlet, outlet, over flow and vent fittings. Each has a manhole for access. These were middle sized. They had much smaller and much larger. I have a small artesian well...