You will need to install a
pitless adapter into your steel well casing below your frost line, to distribute
the water from the well to your home. I recommend the B10-X 1" pitless
adapter for this installation. This is done by cutting a hole through the well
casing with a hole saw to install the pitless adapter through. Installation is a
little tricky since you must not drop the unit in the well. Most people lower
the piece that goes through the well casing wall down on a wire that is stiff
enough to control the pitless unit, and slide it through the well casing hole,
but still soft enough to be able to bend easily. By routing the wire through the
bottom opening of the pitless adapter piece, and out the discharge side of the
unit, you can bend the end over the outside of the unit to prevent it from
coming undone. Lower it down and through the hole in the casing, and while
holding it from the top, have someone grab the piece coming through the hole to
hold it. Bend the wire down slightly to allow you to slip the rubber washer over
the piece sticking out of hole. Place the brass curved piece over the male end
sticking out, and then while holding the piece so it can't slip back into the
well, screw on the nut that secures it in place. This now will leave a receiver
on the inside of the well which will accept the piece that comes up from your
submersible pump. |
The B10-X pitless adapter cost you
$ 73.75 |
I have selected a Flint and
Walling 4F10S07-301, which is a 4" submersible pump that is rated at 10
gallons per minute, using a 3/4 hp 230 volt 3 wire w/ground Franklin Electric
submersible pump motor, and a control box for pump starting and protection.
We will set the pump at 90' down
from the well surface. At the static water level of 35' the submersible pump
will pump 13.8 gallons per minute. Down at the bottom where we are setting the
pump, it can still pump 12.6 gallons per minute. |
Your
cost for the Flint & Walling 4F10S07-301 submersible pump is $ 550.00 |
For ease of installation, I have
selected 1" x 100' roll of Pure Core 200, which is a high quality poly pipe
designed for setting water well pumps on. |
The 100' roll of pipe cost you
$ 115.00 |
You will need insert fittings for
the ends of the poly pipe to give it male iron pipe threads to screw into your
fittings. At the bottom where you are connecting to the submersible pump, we
will use a 1 1/4" male x 1" insert brass male adapter with rope eye for
safety rope connection. |
The rope eye adapter fitting cost you $
10.95 |
For the top end, we
will use a 1" male x 1" insert brass male adapter with rope eye. |
Your
cost is $ 9.40 |
You will also need 4 H16SS stainless steel clamps for use on
1" poly pipe. |
Your cost is $ .81@ for a total of $
3.24 |
We sell 1/4" twisted
polypropylene safety rope with a 1200 lbs breaking strength, in 500' rolls. |
Your
cost for the 500' roll is $ 25.50 |
Since your total distance from the pump
motor to the house is less than 200', we can us 12-3 w/ground pump wire,
which could go up to 480' from motor to power. Setting the pump at 90', you
will need about 100' of submersible pump wire. 12-3 w/ground pump wire cost
$ .85 per foot in cut to length less than a reel orders. |
Your 100' or 12-3
w/ground pump wire cost you $ 85.00 |
You will need a 4 wire heat
shrink splice kit to connect the submersible pump motor lead to the submersible
pump wire. The kit consist of 4 stakon connectors and 4 heat shrink tubes to
protect against the water. You will slide a tube over each wire. Strip off the
wire insulation to expose the wire end and crimp a stakon onto the end of the
motor lead wires. Next you will connect the stakon to the matching color coded
wires from the submersible pump wire coming down from the surface of the well,
and crimp them to the motor leads. Slide the heat shrink tubing over the splice
and heat it with a lighter to melt the tubing down over the stakon. The tubing
will shrink down to where you can see the stakon through the tube and the
sealant will ooze out the ends of the tube, all around the ends. When the
sealant has oozed out sufficiently, the connection will be water tight. |
The
heat shrink splice kit cost you $ 5.75 |
Between the house and the well,
you will put in UF direct burial wire to connect power to the pump in the well.
This UF direct burial wire will lay in the ditch where you put your water pipe
that carries the water from the pitless adapter to the house. We sell 10-3
w/ground UF direct burial wire in cut lengths for $ 1.85 per foot. |
You will
need about 100' to run in the ditch from the well to the house, which will cost
you
$ 185.00 |
At the top of the well, you will
need a 6" pitless well cap. |
We sell the LX6-1 aluminum pitless well cap for
$ 43.75. |
You will route the submersible pump wire out through the pitless
well cap into a 1" conduit that goes into a bell splice box where you will
splice the pump wire to the UF burial wire. |
The bell splice box 2" x
2" x 4" with lid cost you
$ 22.00. |
You will need 4 Red
wire nuts to conncet the wires from your pump to the wires from your power
source. |
Red wire nuts are
$ .24@ = $ .96 |
From the well to the house, we
will use 1" x 100' roll poly pipe rated at 200 psi to carry the water from
the pitless adapter on the outside of the well casing, to the house. We
recommend the use of Pure-Core Blue 200 psi poly pipe. |
Your
cost for the
1" x 100' x 200 psi
poly pipe is $ 115.00 |
In the ends of your poly pipe,
you will need 1" insert brass male adapters. |
Your cost for 2 brass insert
male adapters at
$ 8.10@ is
$ 16.20 |
You will also need 4 H16SS 1" stainless
steel clamps for securing the insert male adapters into the poly pipe. |
Your cost
for 4 H16SS is
$ .81@ = $ 3.24. |
At the house, you need a pressure
tank to give constant desired pressure for your household needs. The smallest I
would recommend with this pump system is the AT-144
|
This tank
cost you
$ 510.00 |
We offer a 1 1/4" deluxe
fitting kit for plumbing this tank into your home water system. It consist of a
1 1/4" long tank tee, a 30-50 psi pressure switch, and a 1/4" x
4" long brass nipple to elevate it up where you can install it easier. You
get a 100 psi pressure gauge, a 3/4" brass boiler drain valve, a 1
1/4" brass check valve, and we recommend an add on of a 100 psi pressure
relief, since the Air-E-Tainer pressure tanks are rated for 100 psi maximum
operating pressure. |
Your cost of this kit including 100 psi
pressure relief is
$ 121.30 |
You can improve on this system
with a larger pressure tank. The AT-244 is a very popular model. It gives you
25.1 gallons of draw down before the pump has to come on, allowing you more
usable water for household demands. |
Your cost for the AT-244 is $ 590.00.
This tank uses the same fittings kit as the smaller tank. |
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