How to Get Water from a Well | This Old House

Richard Trethewey shows the systems for getting water from the well at the North Shore house.

Richard Trethewey explains how to connect a well to the North Shore house’s plumbing. Then electrician Scott Caron explains how a whole-house back up generator helps prevent losing both water and electricity in case of a storm.

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[numbr]

Scott and Heath in the same episode together....the multiverse is converging. Unity will be achieved shortly.

[sanjpl]

I like how Richard, Scott and Heath are all in this video. This is like TEAM WORK.

[bboi]

Never seen Scott and Heath together at the same time

[wbfaulk]

Just to make sure I understand properly, over 50% of how to get water out of a well is installing a whole house generator?

[dally]

This old house guys has been my favorites since I was a young kiddo.
They explain everything so well and easy to understand.. the best team hands down

[MeiklesAndDimes]

Scott explains things very well. Glad to see both of them in the same episode

[andrewmaro]

“Heath how you doing tying everything in?”
“Just about all set”
“Alright, let’s go fire it up”
….this man JUST told you it’s not done yet, he’s still finishing up.

[XzTS-Roostro]

House be like, "Power's out, Lemmie start up my car— er I mean, my backup generator."

[Avital]

Please do a segment on testing your well water. Thanks!!

[dmorga]

As a well water user, not wild about that setup at all. There seems to be a pretty high failure rate for those constant velocity pumps. But even if that thing is bulletproof, I always thought the CV pumps were a solution in search of a problem. I have a conventional Franklin pump in a deep well, and it comes in to a 20-gal pressure tank (a much larger version of the Wel-X-Trol shown in the video). My pressure in the house no matter what I do is always between 55 and 65. You can't tell if the pump is running or not. That's the pressure tank's job. The bladder lasts a long time and it's a heck of a lot simpler than a CV pump with that fancy controller. Also, no filtration at all? That's nuts. You're going to get sediment out of any well, no matter how clean it is, If you don't at least put a sediment filter on it before heading to the fixtures, you'll eventually clog up every aerator and valve in the house. For the expense, why wouldn't you put on a sediment filter? It adds like maybe $200 to project cost. Homeowner changes maybe quarterly for $10 a year, tops.

[rbnhd]

I enjoy these but make them just a bit longer, seems they all cut off short

[infotainment]

Kinda pulled a fast one on us with the title 😂😂😂
This is more like: how a whole house generator works, and something about a well.

[laureline]

That is a BEAST of a standby generator

[ryanroberts]

Rumor has it Scott was found in a dumpster hours later, and Heath gained the title "Master Electrician".

[Mister]

This must have been the hand-off episode to Heath. Thank you Scott!

[SJHome-mtnm]

What are your thoughts if the radon (1850 pCi/L) is detected in water sample?

[HaggisMuncher--]

I really wanna know how they manage to get the feed to switch from generator to grid automatically
Would love this kind of set up with my solar

[hankrhill]

Did I just see a 4 cylinder engine powered generator? I love everything about that 😂

[chrisruiz]

At 400 ft could I go with a 1 hp pump instead?

[RobertSmith-glvs]

Who is the manufacturer of the well pump controller?