Home Made Well - Drilling Your Own Well

[Nifty]

Our "soil" is very hard clay, but when wet it turns to mud. I also don't believe we'll have any issues with rocks.

I can't believe there aren't more people on CL offering well drilling services.

For those of you with wells, can you let me know:

1) Type of soil
2) Diameter / depth of well
3) What is it lined with? (Is it just a PVC pipe in the ground or do you have fancy liners, multiple walls / barriers, etc?)

 

[MorelCabin]

Our drilled well at our last house was a pvc pipe in the ground, but had a well tile and lid to keep it sanitary I guess. It was drilled into rock 220 ft.
This house had a dug well, 8 tiles deep, in heavy clay soil. I wouldn't suggest a dug well to anyone unless it is in dire circumstances:>) All our well had in it was run off:>) yuck!

 

[PamsPride]

DH says:
1) dirt/rock/silt/clay
2) 200ft deep
3) steel pipe (he thinks plastic would freeze and crack)

Most people around here have wells in NE Ohio.

We have several well digging trucks around here. About $5K to have put in.

 

[sylvie]

Each county should have an online well log of every well dug since they began keeping records. It might be a sub heading under your state's department of natural resources.
The entries contain great information such as the depth that water was found, the gallons per minute, the size of casings, the material that was encountered like clay, mud, sand, gravel (and thickness of each layer).
You should be able to see what your neighbors ended up with and figure your approximate depth and casing sizes from the well logs around you.

 

[SKR8PN]

Or dirt is clay and plain old dirt. Very few rocks. Well is 90' deep and has a steel casing. It was put in back in 1953. I bought the house in 1984 and replaced the above ground pump with a submersed one the very first year. I just replaced THAT pump this past summer, just because it was 25 years old. I don't wanna be replacing a pump in the middle of winter when I am 70 years old.