Mornin all.
ESP1776:
You're there. Might as well make it home for now.
Prices and availability of stuff elsewhere is kinda steep .
One bite at a time when facing a roasted elephant.
Roof.
Foundation.
With those secured intact , you have a start.
Well pumps vary. So do wells! Oh boy the fights I've had to get water out of a well that shouldn't have worked.
And pumps. Cripes , pumps.
Story time!
About loosened the house from it's foundation getting the fuel oil furnace to fire up when my antics resulted in a kaboom!. A neglected furnace acquired with my "interesting" first house I bought.
So coming home to a cold house was seldom a surprise. But , after an extended time away in the cold the former Mrs. seemed annoyed enough one time that I had the furnace replaced.
The well was missing components. Siphoning water off the top of the standpipe is the best description I have for how it worked... So there were fights with it at times.
We came home from a week of tenting / deer hunting in the snow , looking forward to heat of course , but a shower too.
Pump had run and run and run during our absence till the capacitor blew up like a jumbo firecracker from the looks of things. Pump was , well kinda warm , more like hot...
Remember well pits? Spider havens. But cool in summer at least. The contactors kinda like old auto ignition points often got cruddy. Or fried. They were adjustable (most anyways) for where to have the pump kick on and off. Requiring a working accurate gauge to know how much pressure in the low pressure (vs city pressure) systems.
I added a new gauge in tandem with the older one once. Of course they argued.
I forget the oldest system I had's air volume control diaphragms proper name. Replaced multiples. Try finding one of them local at most stores today and it would be frustrating I'd imagine.
It'll all work out somehow. Always does.
Break big looking tasks down to doable , by priority. After sorting out priority.
You two are on a great site. That's more than lots of folks are. (!)
Then there are pressure tanks. Bladder tanks with leaks are no delight. But it happens eventually.
Shallow well pump. Deep well pump. Jet pump. Submersible pump. Hand pump. L.o.l...
