Well in garden

[OldSpeclkledHen]

Hello peoples

There is an old well in my garden, that I'd like to do something with (use the water for the garden!)

It's currently got a grate cemented over it and brick surround

Who would I need to remove the grate/raise the wall to keep it safe still and install a little pump?

Is that even doable?

Or any other ideas welcome!

Thanks all in advance 😊

Me too! I'd love to hear what others have done

Our neighbours have a pump and some sort of UV treatment device and can actually drink theirs! I think it is relatively simple. You probably want an electrician to sort out a safe outdoor electrical point and to install a pump and a handyperson to open the well, repoint the stonework so it doesn't collapse and sort out all the pipework.

Is there definitely water at the bottom?

We use ours for drinking water- it’s been an investment as to make it safe to drink you need quite a lot of kit, but it saves us a fortune in water bills so it has paid off. We had a pump put in, pipe work to a shed. The water was tested- ours has excess iron and manganese so there are filters to remove those , the water is aerated then the microbes are sorted out by UV treatment at the end. So in short yes you can use the water and cost/ hassle to do it would depend what you want to use it for. Our well is big and the top is dressed stone and the bottom is hollowed out of rock- it is possible to run it dry but only if you leave a hose on over night and it refills quickly so normal household use is fine. We used a company who specialise in making boreholes / well kit .

A general builder should be able to help. Remove the grate, have a welder make a hatch in it that can be padlocked and is big enough to drop the pump through. Put the grate back with the brickwork as it is now. You'll need an electric submersible pump with a head rating greater than the difference in height between the water level in the well and ground level.

Its doable but could be quite costly. get some quotes from builders thats the easy bit finding a welder we gave up now its important to save water though so i you can get a welder be good to do. I ended up having a system installed to save my gray or grey water saw this article here however you say. A well would be great but keep a locked cover on if you get it sorted they can be a danger.

I've been reading too much Sherlock Holmes. And the first thing I thought was to check for bodies.

Can't find a welder? Every town seems to have a dozen welder-fabricators.

And there's always the middle aisle of Aldi and Youtube...

you can find them try getting them to come out to the middle of nowhere maybe try the middle of Aldi then 😀

Make it in to a wishing well!!!

I have a well underneath my downstairs bathroom floor - about twenty feet deep with a metal plate over the top of it. Have done exactly what you are thinking of OP and there is a submersible pump at the bottom delivering water to an outside tap for watering the garden.

Saves on water bills of course, but the downside is the cost of electricity to power the pump. Cannot advise on costs though as I did the installation myself

We have a well in the garden there is a metal grid over it. I attached a rope to the car and moved it just enough to drop
A pump down , I attached a rope to the pump and lift it up and store it in the garage over the winter.
When everyone's grass is yellow and burnt out is a lush green.
As a temporary measure I attached a syphon tube type device ( about £10/15) to the Karcher jet wash and used that to Water the grass but the well pump is better.