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Location: somewhere in the south | Well, happy to let you guys know that the water came on yesterday evening and all is well!! Thanks so much for all the help and advice! Hopefully this won't happen for another long while................I surmise it was frozen ground! What great friends and advice you find here on BHW!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| turn3nhome - 2014-01-09 9:30 AM Well, happy to let you guys know that the water came on yesterday evening and all is well!! Thanks so much for all the help and advice! Hopefully this won't happen for another long while................I surmise it was frozen ground! What great friends and advice you find here on BHW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Location: Here | turn3nhome - 2014-01-09 9:30 AM Well, happy to let you guys know that the water came on yesterday evening and all is well!! Thanks so much for all the help and advice! Hopefully this won't happen for another long while................I surmise it was frozen ground! What great friends and advice you find here on BHW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Location: SE Louisiana | HotbearLVR - 2014-01-08 2:42 PM
Set the heater on high and direct it directly at the pump and pipes just a couple feet away so the hot air blows right on them. All you need is one of those little ceramic $20 dollar electric heaters. Remember, when it thaws, you could see a leak somewhere because a line or pipe can sometimes crack right where it froze, and it might not be evident until it thaws. Check on it every 15-20 minutes. Usually it doesn't take long. Is there a pressure guage connected to your well? Do you run your house water from this well? When you get freezes into the lower teens or less, that is a different kettle of fish than the candy ass 30 degree ones you all see from time to time.
You southerners are really a blast to watch whenever it gets cold or icy! My oh my! LOL
One of my favorite things to do when I lived in Dallas was watch people drive after an ice storm. A couple times I actually took out a lawn chair and a cup of coffee to watch the demolition derbys at the intersections. You could just predict when there was going to be a fender bender. The ones involving 3-4 cars are always a treat.
Something to keep in mind.... Someone mentioned the pressure switch. If the line freezes in front of that switch (between the switch and the pump) The pump will come on and not shut off. This causes cavitation and will form an air bubble around the pump. Because it is cooled by the water and is now surrounded by air it will burn out. If the line freezes in the ground, it will take just as long to thaw the ground as it took to freeze that deep. A broken line underground will send the water to the surface but it can come up a long way (usually downhill) from the break. |
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Location: n.c. | Hallalujah! Good news. We lost our well pump motor during this cold snap. Even at 90 feet in the ground. Something above ground froze and caused the motor to continuously run. Oh what fun! Summer can't come soon enough. |
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| runningk - 2014-01-09 6:34 PM Hallalujah! Good news. We lost our well pump motor during this cold snap. Even at 90 feet in the ground. Something above ground froze and caused the motor to continuously run. Oh what fun! Summer can't come soon enough.
My old well was like that and I just plugged in it when I needed it...lol |
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Location: Over by those oil wells, TX | Mine was doing the same thing and putting an oil heater on the lowest setting has fixed the problem. i think the oil heaters are safer than space heaters, aren't they?
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