How to dig YOUR OWN BACKYARD WELL 40 feet deep

Drill your own DIY water well using a pressure washer and PVC pipe
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[@jaken1319]

Damnnn thats some rust free well water

[@me-sd1sq]

Awesome project, the pump plumbing video would be appreciated.

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

That was most cool. tHanks for the video. (I've wanted to drill horizontally to put in a drain. The idea is to go about ten feet and end up with a 4" pipe. My problem: I think about it too much and don't experiment with drilling techniques. tHanks again for the video!)

[@adamsoutdoors]

I like it!! May have to give it a try.

[@dianew1966]

Great job!!

[@curtisjacobs2694]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@sm-gv2kk]

Thank you!

[@aliciaezell6166]

🎉🎉🎉ty very much for this informative knowledge

[@sm-gv2kk]

how did you make or where did you get the pressure washer lance / extension from? thank you for sharing this video!

[@BadHomeowner]

They're available on Amazon, I used these: amzn.to/3UtVPxB

[@jonl5889]

how is that pump working at 40 feet? i didn’t see an injector go down the pipe. Is water table less than 25 ft down? Shallow well pumps typically don’t work past 25 and jet pumps require an injector (i think).

[@BadHomeowner]

Good question. It works because the TOP of the water table is only about 15 feet below the surface in my case. As long as the top of the water table is

[@BadHomeowner]

The main reason shallow pumps can't work at, say, 200ft is because typically those depths reach into an aquifer which isn't "connected" to the water table, e.g. often there's a layer of rock in between. And so the water table at ~15ft doesn't "count" in that case. I'm sure someone else can give a better technical explanation, but that's basically how/why it works.

[@congoparrot]

in my state, the well has to be permitted by the States dept of engineering. then after that you have to fight the county.

[@oldschoolautoupholstery]

Hi, Is there a separate video yet for the plumbing? I think I will invest and try your methods.

[@BadHomeowner]

I will work on getting that out

[@oldschoolautoupholstery]

Hi, Question, Could you have just skipped the 20 feet of 4-inch pipe, since the 2-inch went down beyond that, then the 1 1/4-inch down further beyond that? Thanks!

[@BadHomeowner]

Yes you could. I wanted a 4 inch casing to make the initial digging somewhat easier, and in order to install a well cap (which comes in 4 and 6 inch sizes) to keep out debris and stabilize the 1-1/4 in pipe. And some areas may require a casing of a certain diameter if you want it to be "legit". But no it's not technically required.

[@me-sd1sq]

How much water do you estimate you used with jetting and other water you used? I would like to do this in an area without water, but wondering if its worth trucking in that much water. Thank you

[@BadHomeowner]

Hard to tell exactly, but I'd estimate less than 200 gallons based on the amount of time the pressure washer was running.

[@me-sd1sq]

@@BadHomeowner sounds good, that's an easy amount of water to bring. Thank you

[@cheetahb5]

What is the wand that you sent down the well pipe? Do you have a link to it?

[@spiritvisionart]

power washer

[@BadHomeowner]

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[@nealnelson9309]

Did you use a blader tank?

[@TravisWebbUSA]

Yes, it's a 7 gallon pressure tank

[@roswellbeau3894]

I wonder what kind of filtering would be needed to make this potable. RO?

[@murraygrigg]

Depends on the water. Amazon has water test kits to find tds and specific ions. Water treatment for solids is easy but high tds requires more work to make it potable. Water for outside use is ok below 1,000 tds but water for house drinking is likely 200 ppm or less. Iron leaves staining and needs to be removed if it is high. There is quite a bit involved depending on your situation.

[@BadHomeowner]

Yea I may get it tested here soon, just for kicks. I doubt it's drinkable, and I'm not sure if it can be filtered enough to be drinkable. But I'll figure that out at some point!

[@Floutlaw87]

How did the galvanized pipe and hand pump get put in?

[@BadHomeowner]

I dug a hole and stuck it in there! It's connected to the well pump.

[@Floutlaw87]

@@BadHomeowner ahh I see

[@DCDOfficial2024]

Where did you buy the well point in europe?

[@BadHomeowner]

I am in the US so I don't know where you'd get one in EU.

[@justthinkalittle8913]

dude, you may live in the only part of the world where you could do what youre doing. if i get down "10 before hitting silt stone and expanding clay. its wild to see soil that deep.

[@BadHomeowner]

I went through quite a lot of hard clay, but no rock luckily.

[@BadHomeowner]

@@carmichaelmoritz8662 where? there's no city water involved here.

[@DICEGEORGE]

Are there no rocks down there?

[@BadHomeowner]

Not where I am on the East Coast, here it's alternating layers of sand and clay. In rocky areas you may have more difficulty with this approach.

[@drescherjm]

@@BadHomeowner Ahh, For me in south western PA if we dig 6 inches we will likely hit shale so it won't work here.

[@user-et3wx9jn8u]

@@BadHomeowner around where are you located on the east coast?

[@jimsjacob]

I've wondered about doing something similar. CA wants to control that however. They don't want you using anything without getting a taste of it themselves. Have you had the water tested? Wondering about what may have leached into a water table that shallow...

[@BadHomeowner]

I haven't tested it, but it's unlikely I'd use it for drinking anyway. I ended up using it for my outdoor hoses and to run a sprinkler system. City water is very expensive here!

[@jimsjacob]

@@BadHomeowner Yep! Thought the same things for usage if I did something similar. Water costs keep going up and up here too, regardless of the amount of rainfall…

[@jimsjacob]

​@@carmichaelmoritz8662Maybe if politicians would stop misappropiating funds and spending more money than they tax, they wouldn't have to create myths like, "global warming/climate change" in order to take more and more of our money.

[@jasonclay6218]

What they don't know won't hurt them. I never tell the government anything about what I choose to do on my property.

[@poke_hoard422]

I would have actually laid the PVC on the roof and stood higher on the ladder to get more vertical pressure but well done all in all

[@BadHomeowner]

Yea that is probably a better idea -- since I have the roof there might as well use it!

[@poke_hoard422]

@@BadHomeowner yea let it do the hard work lol and it's at a decent angle already to guide it right in!

[@chaseme9860]

8:59 At close to 40 ft. you're just cork-screwing the entire length of PVC at this point, not turning it at the bottom (or turning at a coupling, since you didn't use primer). FYI, at only 40ft, don't ever drink this water. I wouldn't even put my hands in it, because its going to be full of pesticides and herbicides. A good future project would be switching to steel pipe and see if you can get to a potable-safe depth. This would probably require a gas-powered machine. Nice job.

[@BadHomeowner]

FYI the yellow cement doesn't need primer. You're right I definitely don't want to drink from any shallow well -- I'm using this for irrigation only.

[@chaseme9860]

@@BadHomeowner That type of cement is for CPVC, not PVC.

[@bud5084]

Orange is for cpvc, he used a correct glue, look at HD your next trip.

[@chaseme9860]

@@bud5084 wrong

[@thewisecracker-rq1pu]

LoL! "..wouldn't even put my hands in it..." LoL! There's more chemicals in city water than there is in well water! After being filtered through at least 6 feet of earth, well water is cleaner than a lake you swim in and far cleaner than the ocean! And if you're still worried, boil it for 10 minutes! City people... I tell ya.... Geezus! This is a great video!