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Well (the continuing saga..)

We had the saga of power being out for 24 hours, but that is now fixed. A more inconvenient and still continuing saga is that about the time the snow started a couple of days ago our well pump quit.

Over the course of the last two days I have called well-fixing people I found listed in out yellow pages, one of which is less than a mile from us. I never got a liveperson on the phone, just the ‘leave a message and we’ll get back to you’ thing. I have received zero return calls from any of them - apparently they aren’t interested.

Last night I expanded the search and found a company just across the state line in NJ. When I called them today I got an actual real live person on the phone. He took down all the info and said ‘I’ll get back to you.’

He just called back and said ‘I’ll be there in an hour.’

Next item will be finding out if he can get his truck to the wellhead with all the snow..

He didn’t need to get his truck to the wellhead. He was actually able to pull it up by hand - turns out it’s about 60 feet down. So we now have water. But..

Disturbing the well has stirred up a bunch of sediment and now the sediment filter is clogged and water pressure is a mere trickle. Pressure is fine of course on the pressure tank side of the filters. I did turn on the ‘drain faucet’ that is at the base of the pressure tank and let it run into the sump for a bit to flush out sediment. Now I need to change a sediment filter.

So.. more bother. Where’d I hide my chain wrench? (It’s the only thing I have that will fit around the filter canister to unscrew it. I’m not budging it with mere manual torque..)