No place in the house for a UV filter, let alone a whole house filter. Two closets are being taken up now with hot water heater and a water softener, and we'd like to recover those closets for storage space. Another closet was lost to the oil furnace. So, we moved to a bigger house with far less storage space because of the open design. I am considering moving the water heater and the softener out of the house and into the garage across the breezeway. There I have room to make a closet to put them in, but I will have to heat it somehow, likely with electric.CoalisCoolxWarm wrote: ↑Tue. Jan. 25, 2022 8:40 amIf I didn't say it before, at only 20 feet or so, it's likely you are getting ground water (like a spring) anyways. You may be wise to install UV filter in your house, if you haven't already.
Most wells I am familiar with around here use a solid casing for at least the first 20 feet to avoid ground water, then it's based on how to avoid water from the coal layers due to contamination. There are some good wells around here, but many are loaded with iron.
Ram pumps are cool, but they bypass a lot of water. The metal ones last, but can be noisy. Some folks like the rhythmic sound in a distance, others don't. Think about it if and where you install one.
If you can use a tank to build some head to help get the water to the house, jet pumps won't care too much.
An even better option for those two appliances is on the back of the garage building a a small room for an Axeman Anderson coal stoker boiler and placing the water heater and softener in the same room...say 8'x12' or 8'x20' or even 12'x20' off the back of the garage. A room big enough for the boiler, water heater and softener, home filtration and ... hey ... just thought of it ... everything that would go in the well house plus enough room to work in there and store coal too. That might be my best option rather than building a separate well house further up in the yard, or at least keep minimal equipment in the well house.
What I wanted was a 30" well dug so I could have the well and holding tank all-in-one. Someone mentioned a working "wishing well" also. Not sure if the county would let me get by with that. Plus across the road lives a "permit hawk".