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In general, I know it can or could vary, but to give some background. Bought the place a year ago, looking to sell within 2 to 3 years. The windows are the original single glass, not efficient at all! And the a/c and furnace are 9 and 12 years old, still working, but who knows when they will quit. The place already has a 1 car garage, well, 1 1/2 car, but a single vehicle, a snow shovel and a garden hose are about all that will really fit.
I have remodeled the kitchen, bathrooms, new drywall in spots, repaired other areas, fresh paint, wiring and panel/box are updated, landscaping, the siding is good, new shingles, now I can’t decide to go with making the place more energy efficient or to add another stall to the garage, (it also has a nice sized shed for a riding lawnmower, tools, workbench and other junk, just not attached to the house or garage) cost is roughly the same.
Any thoughts? What is more likely to get my money back, efficiency or garage space?

I have a small standard, common, shallow-draft, yard irrigation well with a fairly new 3/4hp centrifuge pump. Our ground water level is usually about 12-14 feet down. I primed it, the pump started, built pressure appropriately, and shut off correctly at 50pounds pressure.

When I then turn the (outflow) garden hose on, once I run out the built up water, I get nothing but a pee-stream within less than a minute…..shut water demand off, pressure builds to 50#, pump shuts off….and, darn it, repeat….

Does not seem to be blowing out air bubbles or such with the water, and the sound of the pump running seems normal. But, does not hold a prime, either, even for a short time.

This is the first property I’ve lived on that actually had a well, I’d always had an at-the-surface weir box to pump from previously.

Now for the incredibly stupid question you have been waiting for: How do I know the difference between the well being out of water (not recharging the groundwater quickly enough) or a pump issue?

No problem when I shut down last fall, and everything was drained.

Our drain pipe in our backyard is completely clogged. It runs deep underneath our cement patio and is not really serviceable.

5 gutter downspouts and 2 sump pump lines all run into this pipe. (yes pvc should have definitely been used)

At the end of the line no water came out, so I began by fishing a garden hose through. I had a little bit of water coming through and I was excited, yet at the next big rainfall, it was still overflowing at all the entry ports.

I’m stuck what to do, all rental places say this is not something thats that fixable. Mostly because you cant use any kind of liquid, and a snakelike system would rip through the thin tubing.

I’m prepared to lay down a large length of pvc piping and reroute the main lines properly.

It’s just unfortunate because we’ve never had this problem before, it was simply because we didn’t clean out our gutters as we should have.

Well before I do anything else, any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for all the tips.

I tried a leaf blower originally which may have helped. I am going to try and use a pressure washer next.

Multiple people told me that a snake would not work because it will simply get caught in the ribbing. I shall try that anyways as well.

We need a part that came with the Little Tikes above ground pool (18 foot by 48 inch metal frame pool). It came with a piece that hooks up to the drain so that a garden hose can connect to it for easier draining. I don’t know what the part is called or where to buy it. I tried the Little Tikes website and couldn’t even find that pool, but found the pool on Amazon.com. Just couldn’t find the part.
If you know the name of the part or where I can find on, please let me know asap. We only have a few days to get a new one to replace the one our kids lost (it belongs to our neighbor who is moving).

We just had our garage roof re roofed, it was a complete tear off and reinstall.
On the south side of the garage they ice guarded it from the eaves to the peak at my request, we get alot of heavy rain and gusty winds from the southwest and they said that it would make it water tight
10 days after them finishing it I had water inside the garage, I was lead to believe by them and many other people that when you use that ice guard and you overlap the seams that it was suppost to make a water tight seal of the area covered by the ice guard.
they came out 2 days ago and seen the water inside the garage and said they would be back out to investigate as to why
they came out today and ran the garden hose on the roof from the north side and not from the direction of the wind and rain and because it didnt leak for them they said well its not leaking.
is this suppost to be water tight or not???

I have a gurling noise in my sink. I have snaked it out with an auger and the gurgling goes away but it comes back a few months later (I do not beleive the auger goes all the way to the roof). I’ve been told to put the garden hose down the vent pipe and that should clear any possible clogs. When doing this, what should I be mindful of? will water come out of any fixtures? Will there be any issues with the septic? Informing me of any precautions I should take would be greatly appreciated
(unless this is not the answer and someone has a different/better usgeestion)
Thanks

I have an intex metal frame pool that is 18×4ft. It has been up for two months with no problems. I apparently negleted the chemicals because it turned green and swampy. I caught it very early, like, we were swimming in it one day, it was green a few days later, and then i began working on it. I put in new chlorine, a jug of algecide, pool shock, and I adjusted the PH to where all the colored boxes on the test strip where in perfect range. The green disappeared withen half an hour. My problem? The water is slightly cloudy. It isn’t so bad that i can’t see the bottom, but it’s bad enough that it bothers me. I read that this is from the dead alge. I left the filter off for a day trying to make the dead alge settle on the bottom, but it never did. how do i make the water clear? Also, my pool came with a vacuum head that works with a garden hose, but i don’t know how to hook it up, I assume it works with the filter somehow?

right now there is a , maybe half inch – inch copper discharge pipe that leads out the wall. from there a garden hose is attached to discharge wella way from the house.

my quesiton is i am having that copper line replaced with a 1.5 in OVC pipe and cant understnad how that works as far as what do i attach to the ned(i.e. garden hoe) so i can have the discharge water stay far away from the house. i need thiis bebcuase if its too close to the house it leaks into the basement.

We thought we had a septic tank, but our landlord told us it is just a pipe buried on a gravel field. A plumber ran a baffle pump down it and found it was blocked. I ran our 50 foot garden hose down and came back with white grease all over it. I think this happened over the winter. I can hook a garden hose up to my water heater, but will that be hot enough? None of the liquid plumber type things have worked. This gentleman at Lowe’s suggested the hot water down the hose too.