The water problems that started yesterday morning are far from over! We had water early last night, but by bed time we were having problems again. We got it “temporarily” fixed, enough to do showers, but that was it. We ran over to the landlords house and grabbed 2 five gallon buckets and a five gallon jug of water so that we could at least use one toilet and have water for cooking and coffee.
Hubby headed off to work this morning and before he left he told me that I could use the water, to just be careful. (Meaning the water from the faucets) But I was scared that I’d do something and end up burning up another water pump, so I used the water out of the buckets and jugs instead. When he got home this afternoon he checked everything, ran the water in 2 faucets for what seemed to be an hour, and it seemed to be working good, so we went ahead and started some laundry and stuff. That lasted a couple of hours and we were back to no water again, so he headed back down to the crawl space, shut the pump off for a few minutes, turned it back on and everything was OK again.
He called the landlord to let him know what was going on and he said he’d be over later. When he showed up he came with 3 cases of water and 3 one gallon jugs so that we would have plenty of water to drink and cook with. He also brought a truck with 350 gallons of water in a tank. They hooked it up so that the pump would draw water from the tank rather than the well and so far, things are running OK. We don’t have but maybe 2/3 of the pressure we had, but it’s definitely better than nothing and works fine for showers and laundry.
The landlord is going to get the papers from the county to find out 100% for sure where the well is on the property. Then he is going to bring someone over to see what needs to be done, whether it be a new point put in or a deeper well drilled. So, although we currently don’t have a permanent solution, we do at least have a temporary one and we do have running water in the house.
It’s frustrating though! I see what my hubby is going through knowing that he’s not working the hours he was and the fact that they’ve talked about a layoff. Add to that the stress and frustration of the water situation and he’s not in good shape! I was talking to my best friend on the phone tonight and told her that he’s getting to the point that it worries me, that he’s almost to the point of being so depressed and stressed that he belongs in a hospital. So please, keep him in your thoughts, prayers, etc, because I am truly worried about him and the effect that all of this is having on him!
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