“Problem is if you choked it down enough to just supply your house with gas it might be enough to just kill the well.”
Let me see if I understand you.
I’m guessing.
The gas comes out at the well head because opening the underground well of gas acts like a “pressure relief” operation. If you “choke” how much (the rate at which) you want to release that pressure, to control how much gas you are getting, to a minimum, you may create a pressure issue in your pumping operation - in the line down into the well or somewhere.
Is that the kind of thing you mean??
One of the biggest enemies of a gas well is produced water out of the same formation that is producing gas. The gas “rushing” to the surface carries along with it the produced water. Shut the well in and it may water up so much it will never flow again(killing it), as well, reducing the flow down to the volume you would need for your house may let enough water into the bore hole that it would gradually fill up and kill the well.
Hard and expensive to get one flowing again. Sometimes never.
So, the moral to the story is you flow a well enough not to let it water up but not so much you gut the producing formation leading to a non producer.