Bath/Utility

New Plan for bath and utility.

Based on

• existing dimensions of washer drier
• contender hot water tank
  

Diagram of well

This is all you can see of the well now.

Here's the diagram of the well with all the relevant statistics. The back fill has yet to be added. We hit water at 60 ft but needed to continue until about 180 ft to get a decent fill rate of 100 gallons/hr. The water levels off at about 30 ft below the surface. The reservoir of water is about 135 U.S. gallons or 620 litres.

The bentonite collar is necessary in the code to prevent infiltration from surface water because we are directly on the rock. Bentonite is a type of concrete that expands enormously when it comes into contact with water. It added a nifty $1700 to the cost of the well :-/ .

Loading up and going home

This is the drill all ready and loaded, waiting to be walked down the hill and taken home. I think it looks more like a rocket launcher here. The drill operator (seen in both pictures) consulted regularly on well depth.

The cool part is that the control panel is portable and can be used to drive the machine just about anywhere. Lisa called me a geek for taking this picture of the operator taking the drill machine down the hill . I just think it makes me a guy: what man can resist enjoying the dual pleasures of a remote control and heavy machinery?

Setting up the drill

The well drilling platform is this neat little crawler that can actually get into much tighter spots than our well site. It needs to be hooked up to a water and power source, which in this case was a supporting truck seen in the previous post. The thing at the left that looks like a lunar landing craft expels all the rock that the drill flushes out with water that is pumped through the tubes you see lying around the bottom. The next device over is the control panel for the entire operation. It's actually used to drive the machine as well as operate the drill.

Busy worksite

We were expecting the well people from Puisatiers Exprets from Granby this morning. I hear action at the site, grab my well permit, and rush up to the site only to find the people from Laroche et fils getting ready to build the footings for my foundation. So I rush down to finish my foundation plans.

It was a busy worksite, but manageable. The contractors seemed to know how to stay out of each others way. Good thing, because there was a lot of coming and going. I managed to get some work in myself, although I was not nearly as busy as I appear to be here. Here I am moving the leftover concrete from the pump truck. I'm using it to block the runoff from a small spring in the driveway. This should help divert the water from a natural crevice under the house to a natural crevice running BEHIND the house.

Roger Laroche inspects his footing pour at far right, and the well guys drill for water in the background.