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gcrank1
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# Posted: 7 May 2026 08:36pm - Edited by: gcrank1
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Not at our off-grid cabin but at our on grid 940sf country 'cottage' home. Yesterday, early eav, I took a shower and had low water pressure. Some post shower checking found one leg of the 240v a blown fuse rather than the hoped for pressure switch issues Ive had off/on for 39yrs here.
Did some online checking and dug into it all with my Fluke multimeter and thought (hoped) it was the Jacuzzi submersible pump control box; ie, maybe the start capacitor for the pump, which without the 'kick start' voltage would be an overload from the pump and blow the fuse? Not so lucky, checking the 3 fat wires to the pump found a short to ground indication a bad pump. 
Still, after all these years, and some before we bought the place there was maybe a 45yr lifespan, by all accounts online that is remarkable! And, this did not happen in the winter.
We have our off-grid water use methods so we aren't desperate and I may have a well guy coming tomorrow.
This does make me pretty glad we dont have a producing well at the cabin, though we are wishing we did have our cabin composting T here. If it was a bit warmer Id consider rigging up the big watering can 'shower' off the back deck. And we dont have a rain barrel for utility water here at home! What an oversight being used to the mod-cons!
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DRP
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# Posted: 7 May 2026 09:03pm - Edited by: DRP
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That could be rubbed wires as well, which I'm sure he'll check for when its pulled. At that age either way I'd put a new one on if it's on the surface. How deep is it?
Our previous one was a Jacuzzi, it lasted 30-35 years. We also irrigate a good sized garden from that well. At least in that era they were good pumps, I have no idea now.
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 7 May 2026 09:41pm
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In spite of 'searching' Ive never been able to get any history of the well or depth or even the for sure location other than the casing may be down where the old original hand pump for the schoolhouse was. Yes, our place was a late 1800 clapboard small one room school and when we moved here in 1987? many of the old folks had gone to school here, now they are all gone and we are the old folks.
Ive been fretting all these years about 'when' we would have trouble.....and now I know.
We cleared the covered wellhead this aft, there was an old thick rubbish 'cap' over the top flange and wired underneath the flange, then a hunk of slab 'crete about the 18x18 on top. I expect at one time that actually was above grade but over time ended up a flower and shrub bed so the cap got covered. It certainly wasnt 'sealed' as everything peeled off.
So obviously we've never sanitized it either. Ive got a feeling this is gonna be expensive.
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