hey everybody sam here and welcome back to green anchor homestead in today's
video I delve into our well house very rarely seen well house out here on our
homestead and replumbed the entire thing for probably not much of a big reason or
is there stay tuned I've got everything pretty much stripped off cleaned up and
cleaned out enough for me to go ahead and start tackling the disassembly and
redesigning of this Holwell house layout I want to go to the top of the hill and
get some cinder blocks out of our garden we have a stack up there of extras
because I want to raise the pressure tank up off the ground probably as high
as I can within the well house but also want to bring it up on a level that's
easier to work with and maintain not that there's a whole lot of maintenance
involved with a pressure tank yeah you know but when you got to work on it it's
easier if it's a little bit higher than down there on the ground our well system
has been in place here for five years that's how long it's been in since we
built the place and in that time I replace the pressure gauge once the
pressure switch twice and I've reconfigured moved everything out here
from where it was originally installed which was underneath the house in the
dirt let me go into the garden to get some blocks I'll come back down stack
them in place and we'll go ahead and cut free the pressure tank this is also the
point of no return once this is done no water is available to the house until
the whole project is done so I mean to make sure I have all the forseeable
parts that I may need as best I can I mean I'm probably when I'm going to
the hardware store let's go ahead and say that that's just way it goes but I
need to make sure I have everything I think I'll need and kind of get a better
game plan before I start so let me do that now see you guys in a second first
step is to pull the service disconnect here this will kill the power
to the well pumping everything out here set this aside and now we need to drain
the system which is really easy with our sediment filter and I just open this
valve and it has a hose that runs outside
well that's a pain that sees down there too much
look I just cut the PVC right here let's say close to this elbow I'll do the same
thing up here on this pecs pretty close to the elbow
I like the pressure tanks sitting here I want to put it right here perpendicular
to the wall but this pipe and everything is messing with me it's also quite the
assortment of adapters from 3/4 to 1 inch to PVC the brass 2 pecs
so I'm will go ahead and cut this pecs off here and I'm gonna take all this
junk out and really simplify it I want to reduce the number of joints that I
have which are points of possible failure
yeah quite the assortment there huh let's make this simple so I'm going to
do is cut the bottom of the pipe right here below this elbow just to simplify
this whole mess further and I'm going to stick a shutoff valve right here that
way in case anything happens with the water supply between the well house and
the house we can shut off the house and still retain use of the well if you need
to be alright you guys just need to ignore this right here you don't see
this at all this is five years old so from whatever it's worth five years you
don't see this just keep on looking right here at the pipe this is what you
want to see all right I'm gonna clean off the shavings come out of the inside
smooth off the outside all right we'll go ahead and primer the end of this pipe
I'm gonna do the same thing with my shutoff valve
let those dry for a second primers drying time we'll use some of this
regular clear PVC cement to glue the shutoff valve onto the pipe
here we go now we have a shutoff valve and if we need to we can close it
turn off the house and continue to have water here in the well house and
surrounding areas with spigots and other hose connections like that all right
next thing I want to do is I put two of these quick disconnect unions on this
pressure tank that way if I ever need to exchange it or we want to upgrade it or
just for whatever reason it's a lot easier to disconnect and I'll just end
up continuing to destroy and cut and splice and cut and splice pipe the way
you wrap teflon tape is you wrap it in the direction that you're going to
tighten the pipe or the fitting over the threads so in this case I'm going to
spin it on this way clockwise as I'm looking at it so I wrapped the teflon
tape clockwise as well the importance of doing that is so that you don't strip
the teflon tape off as you thread your fitting on
I'm reusing the other union that was down there that's why this one looks a
little bit gnarly next up I'm going to start working on this backside I have
this union that will thread on here or a coupler and then this piece threads into
this one and that allows me to glue the pipe into place so I'm going to go ahead
and put these two together and I'm going to join this here and then put me an
elbow up to connect to the supply line further up on the inside of the
wheelhouse there we go
there we go everything looks good and tight
next up is to go ahead and glue the pipes on this end so I'll pull the
pressure tank out where I can get to a little bit easier go ahead and put some
purple primer on the inside of this joint and on the other side as well
I'm fixing the plumbing pipes yes so I'm just gonna run through the rest of this
part hooking these pipes together it's a pretty basic order of operations you
primer the pieces let the primer dry and then you glue the pieces and that's
pretty much it I'm gonna go ahead and finish gluing these all together in ya
catch you whenever I get done
here we go that finishes the line that goes from the pressure tank down and
into the house now we can work on the rest of it I'm at the inevitable point
in the project where I need to go to the hardware store and get a couple more
bits to finish this out so let's go ahead and ride out there get the pieces
and come back well we're back from the hardware store
and we're able to get all the bits and pieces we needed with a couple of extras
here and there because well you never know for like eight bucks
score one for all mom-and-pop hardware store plus it's a lot closer than the
nearest big-box store and you know who wants to go there not me what I'm gonna
do next is go ahead and cut the sediment filter out leaving enough room on the
left and right to put couplers in place and go ahead and get that fixed and then
take all of this Peck's out of the equation it's all being replaced with
one inch schedule 40 PVC pipe I need to cut this right in the middle between
this elbow and the filter so that I can put some couplings here to keep things
together so I ball a middle and cut it out there we go and I'll do the same
thing over here however I don't care about keeping this coupler and these
reducers and all that because I got a new one little thread right into the
filter so I'm just going to cut it really close to this coupler to leave me
enough room to attach another coupler to it or probably just attach it directly
into the filter with the adapter that I bought
here we go with that done I can turn it this way and tah-dah
it's put in the correct way I think what I'm also going to do is just take this
old filter out and install this other spare one that I found down on the
workshop why not I've got it this one's new never been used this one's kind of
crusty it's got the stuff glued in and all this other junk so out with the old
in with the new old stock I've got the sediment filter glued back in place and
it is correct this time inlet/outlet I'm going to next
put teflon tape on my water filter and put into both the right and left side
adapters this turns a three quarter inch thread to a one-inch glue on or slip
fitting and then allow me to thread this in all the way and then I can attach and
glue it together just like that it makes a whole lot more compact setup it's a
lot neater and cleaner of a look I have my adapters threaded on here and they
have been primered I am ready to glue this in place now I will say this this
is risky to do and what I mean by that is if I glue this in and there's an
issue if this leaks or this leaks or something leaks for some reason I've not
left myself any room to cut and Reese plies things so this is very risky it
begs the question why did I do this this filter is already glued in has been
cutting supplies cut and spliced so many times that I have no more left over for
this at this point if I've got to change anything I might as well get a new
filter on this in why am I not adding another coupler and extending it on out
kind of the same reason of if I add a coupler extended I'll give myself extra
points of failure and I don't want to do that so I'm going to take a risk and
hope and pray that I don't regret doing this risk so with all that being said
you might want to consider to give yourself a little bit of extra one inch
PVC pipe space to cut and splice cutting splice to play it safe so I would not
recommend doing what I'm about to do
I've got the filters put in place the cartridges have been inserted this is
only hand tight on both of these units however it is handy to get a filter
wrench like this for this one to get off and on because this will tighten up on
you over time and kind of get sticky this one wasn't too bad they don't have
any kind of ribs on the side for this one for a filter wrench so seriously
just hand tighten it and that's good enough
do we want to check and see if it leaks so you're good
fellers ladies and gents that's it everything's glued back together now
whoa before you go running and turning the water on right away to see how
awesome a job you did give that PVC glue and cement time to cure and dry I've
never personally blown pipes out like that but I've heard stories and I don't
want to be one of them so now is the perfect time for me to clean up my mess
because I have made a mess in here clean up the tools bits and pieces of
trash and all that stuff give us time to cure and then we'll come back and do the
final pressure test cross our fingers and hopefully not take a shower out in
the well house okay it's been long enough now is the time it's the moment
of truth time to put the service disconnect fuse back in the well pump
it'll kick on and to watch everything carefully for no leaks
proper filtration and all-around no showers in the wheelhouse in the words
of that guy off of Jurassic Park hold on to your butts
we'll have ourselves one little leak here so I'm gonna tighten this part up
here at my channel locks and looks like it stopped I'm gonna sit here and watch
it for a few minutes though
well five and a half hours later and it is done it looks a lot more pretty I
definitely really like having the pressure take elevated up off the ground
that's going to help keep it a lot cleaner a lot easier to work on and just
things just a lot better for a long lifespan and hopefully not many other
issues or problems not that we've had any I shouldn't say that don't jinx
myself but you know what I'm saying it looks better appreciate you guys
watching and we'll see you next time on the homestead
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