Day 2-Preparing For Tiny Living
Day#2
Off to the hardware store we went for more parts. Another 3 hrs gone! Got back to take out and replace the pressure tank and switch. He also wanted to add a shut off valve for the water line in the house as there was not one.
To find out why they wired the place like they did we decided we had better go to the well head and check things out there too! Surprise Surprise more mess!
Yes that is a pressure switch in the top of the well head!! WTH? And for you who know electric that is the well pump wiring going into the switch with a 12-2 wire coming out!! Again WTH? Not sure what they were thinkin!?
Mtn Man opened up the switch box and found no ground wires anywhere. Now some folks say that the water is ground enough...BUT with this mess who is to say!
Mtn Man pulled up a bail of hay and had a sit down for a sec just saying Wife I am not sure what to do at this point! We don't have a clue where the 12-2 wire meets the 10 gauge wire in the house. It appears that the 10 g wire goes down under the house in a pipe and the same with the 12-2 wire at the well which goes into the ground.
We put our noggins together and decided to dig up around the well casing to see just what they did with that wire.
Well it went into the ground freely (not inserted in a protective pipe). Hmmm what to do?
We ended the day with the decision to go to the Hardware store one more time and get the proper wire to go from the well to the house by passing the mess all together!
Off to Neighbors to fill up our reserve bottles for water.....Day 2 without water....
Called for back up support...FIL to show up the next morning....
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Off to the hardware store we went for more parts. Another 3 hrs gone! Got back to take out and replace the pressure tank and switch. He also wanted to add a shut off valve for the water line in the house as there was not one.
Mtn Man opened up the switch box and found no ground wires anywhere. Now some folks say that the water is ground enough...BUT with this mess who is to say!
Mtn Man pulled up a bail of hay and had a sit down for a sec just saying Wife I am not sure what to do at this point! We don't have a clue where the 12-2 wire meets the 10 gauge wire in the house. It appears that the 10 g wire goes down under the house in a pipe and the same with the 12-2 wire at the well which goes into the ground.
We put our noggins together and decided to dig up around the well casing to see just what they did with that wire.
We ended the day with the decision to go to the Hardware store one more time and get the proper wire to go from the well to the house by passing the mess all together!
Off to Neighbors to fill up our reserve bottles for water.....Day 2 without water....
Called for back up support...FIL to show up the next morning....
Love hearing from ya!!!! FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK TOO! https://www.facebook.com/adventuresofmylife Copyright © 2015 M.E. Masterson All Photographs Copyright © 2015 M.E. Masterson
I'm glad you're writing about this great adventure. It may be awhile, but you'll probably laugh about this some day. You'll at least have some good stories to tell. I'm glad it's not in the middle of a hot, sweaty summer.....
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