Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Well

Sunday morning Jamie got up to get ready for church. As he was in the shower the water stopped on him. We started to check different things in the house and Jamie went out to the well to check the pump.

I, in the mean time, took the boys to church and Sunday school. Then we stopped at Josh's house to get some fish the guys caught. Once we were there Josh let us know that Jamie thought the line was froze and have the boys do bathes there. So Jake took a shower, Seth took a quick bath and I got groceries.

Jamie called a well company while we where gone, but they don't have people working on weekends anymore due to cost. Of course they don't, that would be to easy. So we had to wait until Monday.

Monday morning Jamie packed a bag and went to Josh's to shower and get ready for work. And I got the boys off to school. The well guys didn't get here until after 1:00 in the afternoon. They were suppose to be here at 10:30.

They also checked all the stuff downstairs and the well and figured out the line must have froze. So they were sticking pipes with a tube down the well full of steam to thaw the line out.

They also stuck the tube down the line from the basement. They figured out that it was froze right at the elbow of the line. So they were trying to thaw it on both sides.

Sunday I put snow in the bathtub downstairs so I could get some water to put in the toilet. That way we could at least flush after we went.

Not to sure why, but the owners before us put Styrofoam in the toilet tank. So it was like putting ice in a cooler. It wouldn't melt right away.


Here they are with steam coming out of the well.


After about 4-5 hours of working on the line it finally opened up. Then I had to run all the facets to get the yuck out of them. I am still trying to do that today.


We were told to run a hose from a facet outside and keep is running for about a week. This way the tank and line will stay warm.


If you look close you can see there is no water coming out of the hose. The stupid hose froze over during the night. And when I went to turn the water off the facet is now froze open!!!!! Luckily Jamie told me how to turn the water off to that facet.


Here is the yuck coming out of the washer machine.

So now I am running water and checking them as much as possible to make sure they are still going and not freezing up again.
Thanks Josh for letting us use your bathroom. We owe you once again. : )

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