We Wasted $32,000 on our Well! - Complete Water Well Drilling Cost Breakdown

hey marty yeah we have so many comments saying that we could have saved 32 000 on our well what [Music] something about the wonderful way the sun is saying everything's there are so many comments telling us that we could have saved all that money had we collected rain water or dug a shallow well just like red poppy ranch did you guys have really got us thinking whether drilling a well was a good idea or not or whether we made a huge mistake in doing so so first thing we want to do is break down the cost of our well it's 517 feet deep and it costs 48 dollars per foot there's casing that goes all the way down there is a screen at the bottom we also have the cost of the permit and the cost of the well cap that total came out to 32 dollars now we also installed our own pump so we have the cost of the pump the pipe the wire and the generator that we had to buy and all that cost about 1500 so in total it costs 33 666 if you haven't seen our well drilling video or a pump installation video both of those links are in the description of this video so in the comments and emails you guys seem to be saying that we pretty much wasted 33 thousand dollars by drilling that well when we could have just collected rain water or dug a shallow well like red poppy ranch so let's go over to the house and we'll talk a little bit about rainwater collection by the time our house is done being built we'll have about 340 000 square inches of roof space that we could collect rain water on here in our area it rains about 34 inches a year that's going to give us right around 50 000 gallons of water per year if we collected all of the rain that fell on our roof the average american uses 80 to 100 gallons of water for household domestic use that comes out to for a family of four right around 142 000 gallons of water per year 142 000 gallons of water per year that doesn't include watering the lawn watering animals or watering the garden that's just use inside the house showering bathing washing dishes doing clothes and things like that just from the numbers alone you can see that collecting water off of our roof would not be enough water for our family throughout the year the other thing that you guys said we should have done rather than drill that well was develop this well more what you wanted us to do was actually put in a shallow weld here by digging a huge hole here with an excavator probably a ten foot diameter hole then you lower three foot culvert pipes you lower those down in there until it comes up to probably right about here on ground level then we're gonna fill in with this with tons of gravel all around that cover it back up with dirt and basically you're gonna have a three foot diameter 18 foot deep well right here where this guy is that's a great idea however we are so far away from our house that it is impractical for us to trench all the way from here all the way up to where our house is both rain water catchment and a shallow well are really great ideas for getting inexpensive water on your homestead and so we were still thinking about it and still like mulling it over in our minds so we contacted a realtor friend of ours and asked him about it and he said yeah it is way way way better to have a certified well on your property rather than collecting rainwater or having a shallow well and that's because when people want to buy your property they can get a traditional mortgage you can't do that with a rainwater catchment system or a shallow well do we waste 32 thousand dollars i don't think so you know rainwater catchment systems and shallow wells they are excellent ideas and they will work perfectly for a lot of different people in a lot of different homesteads it's just not the right one for us so that's what you choose to go with on your homestead and i wish you the best success with it and that it provides you with all the water that you need if you'd like to see what else is going on here in our homestead there's a video right over there you can go ahead and check out otherwise i hope you guys have a really great day keep smiling and we'll see you over in that video in just a second

Channel: Martin Johnson - Off Grid Living

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Length: 5min 7sec (307 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 13 2021