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Hinezy
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# Posted: 9 Feb 2013 11:56pm
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My newly purchased property has a shallow well that I'll be purchasing a pump for soon. I was thinking of building an outdoor sink with an underneath cabinet for housing the pump. Maybe a little roof over the top of the sink. Does anyone have any advice or tips?
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TomChum
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# Posted: 10 Feb 2013 01:22am
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I'm planning to be building a similar item, maybe no roof though.
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Jerry
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# Posted: 11 Feb 2013 08:05am
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I did the same thing last year. My shallow well has a small well house above it with an electric pump and a hand pump. The electric pump was bad and the well house was getting rotten, so I tore it all off down to ground level, redid the pump and plumbing, built a new well house and plumbed the hand pump to a small sink and table attached to the side of the well house. I took the sink out of an old travel trailer so it's nice and small. It works well during the warm months, but I have to drain it all once freeze up sets in.
One small problem I have is that even though I put a check valve below the hand pump to keep the pump full of water (primed) once I start pumping I still have to pull the water up from within the well pipe and it takes quite a few pumps to get a full volume of water flowing again. Anyone have any solutions to this? The well pipe is just 1 1/4" with the pumps pulling directly from it.
Didn't mean to hijack your thread Hinezy, but maybe we can both get some good ideas.
Jerry
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TheWildMan
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# Posted: 11 Feb 2013 01:06pm
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I have an outdoor sink, 2 outdoor sinks actually. I set up a big utility wash sink (found in the trash) on a stand at my outdoor kitchen (area with several tables, 2 propane camp stoves, covered out of weather, used for big canning projects to preserve harvests, big projects mean a lot of cleanup). I got an additional one just in the fall (stainless steel double sink, found in the trash as well) but have not done anything with it. i save the gray water to use for watering garden.
outdoor sinks are useful for cleaning big messes and keeping the cabin interior clean, near the well makes sense.
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Hinezy
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# Posted: 11 Feb 2013 04:33pm
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I'm leaning toward this well pump http://www.harborfreight.com/1-horsepower-shallow-well-pump-with-stainless-steel-hous ing-69302.html it's priced right and made with stainless steel! I like the idea of a hand pump on the sink, I may steal that idea! Anyone know of a quality affordable hand pump?
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SE Ohio
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# Posted: 11 Feb 2013 07:25pm
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This sounds like a potential low-tech frost-proof setup- Lowes sells a pitcher pump for about $50, good for a shallow well (25 feet or less draw). It will lose its prime in a short time, so no frost damage and no draining needed for winter. Human powered and easy to maintain. I have one attached to a rain barrel next to an outdoor sink.
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 12 Feb 2013 05:43pm
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I just wanted to state what is perhaps the obvious- if you have a sink right over your well, make sure the dirty water from the sink goes far away from the well so you don't contaminate the well. Lots of fun bacteria can grow in the sink drain pipe even if the sink itself is nice and clean.
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