Repair and cleaning of wells with their own hands.

A shallow water well is one of the most common water sources in a dacha or a country house. Such household wells are drilled by themselves or by drilling organizations, they have a good production rate sufficient for household needs and watering. But they have a significant disadvantage, their service life is quite small, periodically they need cleaning and repair.

First of all, it is necessary to determine the cause of the failure of the well. To do this, you need to measure the water level in the well with a weight on the rope and measure the depth to the bottom. It is also necessary to know the actual depth of the well. If the water level is high, and the bottom is heavily "up," then the well is silted and it must be cleaned.

Cleaning of the well with one's own hands without resorting to special material costs is carried out in two ways - with the help of a powerful drain pump or motor pump, or a pump like "Kid"

To clean the well, you need a vibrating pump with a lower water intake. Pump on a reliable steel cable 4-5 mm drops to the bottom of the well and begins the semblance of "fishing". those. The pump needs to be raised-lowered by 10-15 cm by tapping it on the bottom. Dirt at the bottom of the well "stirs up" and pumped up the hose, the main thing is not to lower the pump for a long time, otherwise the hose and pump can be clogged with silt and sand. This method of cleaning works well if there is enough water in the well, and siltation does not exceed 1-3 meters. The entire cleaning process will take several hours.

If the mud blocked the flow of water into the well, then cleaning the well with a vibrating pump is unlikely to work, there simply is not enough water to operate the pump. You can apply another method - to wash the well with a powerful motor pump or drain pump with a capacity (nominal capacity of at least 6-10 cubic meters per hour). The principle of cleaning the well in this way is quite simple: down to the bottom of the well, a HDPE pipe 32-40 mm in diameter or a fire hose with a piece of metal pipe at the end is lowered and water is supplied. The accumulated dirt and sand from the bottom is blurred and carried out by the reverse flow of water from the well to the outside. In order for the erosion to be more effective, at the end of the tube one can make a semblance of an ejector, i. E. Flatten its end so that the jet strikes with more force. It is necessary to provide in advance a water drainage groove from the well, so as not to flood the site. The disadvantage of this method is that a sufficiently large amount of water is needed, from 1 to 5 cubic meters. Depending on the depth of the well and the degree of contamination.

There is another way to clean shallow wells - with the help of a compressor, the so-called airlift. Now almost everywhere there is a service for hourly rental of a powerful industrial compressor (capacity of 3-7 cubic meters per minute) installed on a small truck a la "Gazelle". Cleaning with its help occurs quickly enough, within 1-2 hours, the principle is the same as with the motor pump, only instead of water to the bottom of the well is air, which takes out the pollution and if necessary poured a little water. The only thing is a dirty enough process, the fountain reaches 1.5-2 meters, and it is advisable to close the nearby strings with polyethylene.

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