What An Incredible Two Weeks!
We have been talking about moving the forty foot storage container from the north side of our property to the eastern edge since it would be blocking a repair to our well if the need arose. We decided to move it, just in case. After some research, we contacted Phoenix Heavy Duty Towing and Transport to come and move this behemoth. Why we didn't place it in the back of the corral when we first moved it out here, I have no idea. Nor do I know if our decision to move it, precipitated the problems that immediately followed the move or not. One can only guess.
That was the container before the move on the north side of the garage.
With great effort and skill, the driver managed to back in the behemoth through the gates and start his move.
These guys are incredible in their skills in working with such big items in tight spaces. The fence wasn't here when we moved this container and placed it here.
The container was safely towed and moved to the back of the property! These guys are great and if you need something very big moved, we highly reccommend them! That chore was completed and out of the way.
The next day our washing machine was repaired after being without one for nine days! I couldn't wait to get started on the laundry that had been piling up with things I hadn't taken to my daughter's to be washed on days I baby-sat for grandkids. I filled it and got it started. I noticed after about thirty minutes that nothing had happened and went to check. NO WATER!!! Found out all too quickly that the well was out.
Luckily for us we have another great repair/service person for our well repair. in Dustin Yates of Yates Well And Pump Repair. He was here the next morning and relaced the pump in our 650 foot deep well. By a little after noon we had water again. That was on a Tuesday. He told us that we needed to replace the piping also, but our neighbor refused and disagreed in spite of the explanations. It was a large amount of money to replace the pipe also. As Dustin pulled the pipe out, we learned that nothing had been done correctly from grounding the wiring to connecting the pipe. We had a home inspection but short of pulling the pump, we would never have known these things, but it is something we plan on discussing with the home inspectors. By the following Saturday, the brand new $2100 pump was no longer working. But I had gotten all the laundry done. After many phone discussions with the neighbor with whom we share our well, Dustin and many others, it was decided that on Monday morning, we would replace the pipe and not with PVC. Slowly the 650 feet of pipe was again pulled and it was found that the old PVC pipe and fittings did not withstand the pressure of the new pump. It was pulled slowly because the pump can come off the piping and go to the bottom of the well. Then it has to be fished out, if you are lucky. So it was all replaced and we now have 650 feet of PVC pipe in the side yard. Hank has been over to inspect it several times. Half of it is ours, and half the neighbors. I knew those plans for agility equipment and porch furniture made from PVC would one day come in handy!
It has been a long and expensive ten days! The pipe is $4 a foot!
But at least things can now stay green again in the desert under the hot Arizona sun!
And when puppies get poopy, they can be easily washed! And their water bowls can be filled with water instead of puppy.
