We drill well with our own hands: technology, methods

The main problem faced by the owners when buying a country house is the lack of a water supply system. However, drilling a well can solve the problem. Water in the house will flow continuously and at the same time free of charge.

It is not so easy to build a water source, but the price of the installation made by its own efforts will be several times less than the cost of the work carried out by specialists.

Drilling Guide

We will tell you how we drilled a well and what equipment we used for this.

Choosing a place to drill a well

Before proceeding to the main stages, it is necessary to pay attention to the choice of the location of the future source. After all, you need to remember that it will not be possible to move it later..

Therefore, choosing a drilling site, you can follow these recommendations:

• The first thing to consider is the proximity to the house to facilitate the flow of water into the room. It is better to organize the water source not closer than three meters from the house, but also no further than 15 meters.

Tip! It is optimal to place the source 3-5 meters from the house, which will eliminate the need to lay pipes over long distances. When drilling near buildings, a special drilling rig may be required for wells.

• On the site, water is used not only for everyday human needs, but also for watering the garden. If automatic watering is used, it is necessary to think over the water supply system.
• When choosing a drilling site, it is necessary to take into account the proximity of various objects. These can be hanging wires or trees growing nearby. It is important to make the work as comfortable as possible; nothing should restrain movement.

Well drilling methods

To organize the water source can be one of the following methods.

1. Auger drilling. The process is not labor intensive and you can organize the source yourself. For the most part, drilling rigs for wells are based on this method with their own hands. The principle is to extract the soil with an Archimedean screw, called a screw. The process of digging up the earth resembles the drilling of ice for winter fishing. Thus, it is possible to obtain wells with a depth of up to 10 m. At the same time, in the working process, it is not necessary to use the solution for washing equipment.

This method can not be resorted to in all cases. Without too much effort, they drill soft ground. The auger is unable to cope with the quicksand and hard rocks.

1. Rotary mode. This method is the most common. With it, you can reach any depth. Drilling in this case is a special drill pipe, in which there is a rotating shaft with a bit-shaped tip. Hydraulic installation creates pressure on the bit. Leaching of the soil is carried out in the following ways.

• Direct flushing involves pumping a solution into the pipe, after which it goes out together with the ground through the annulus. This is the cheapest way, because the owners of country houses often resort to it.
• When backwashing by gravity, water penetrates into the annulus. After that, pumped out of the drill pipe with a pump. This method allows you to get a better well, thereby increasing its flow rate. But because of the need to use special equipment, the cost of work increases.

1. Shock rope method. The falling pipe-pipe on the ground breaks it down and takes the soil with it. At the bottom of the installation there is a special fascinating device that looks like half a screw with sharp edges. Often, a drum cable drill is being built for wells with its own hands. To do this, you will need to build a tripod and a shelf, which consists of a rod, a window for unloading sludge and a device for gripping the soil. On the tripod throw the cable connected to the scrape. The tool is released on the face and lifted above the ground. Let us consider in more detail how we drilled a well with this method.

Well drilling technology

The main advantage of the shock-cable way is the simplicity of work that you can do with your own hands without using outside help.

Make a tripod for drilling as follows:

• lay pipes on the ground;
• make holes in them;
• connect the pipes with a thin pipe, wire or other object at hand;
• A winch is attached to adjacent posts.

As a result, we get the design, as shown in the photo.

The following instructions will help you drill a well yourself.

1. In the first stage, the installation of a tripod. To do this, dig a pit, from which the soil is removed.

1. Next, securing the drill on the cable, we drill the hole ourselves. The drill should be regularly removed and cleaned.

1. After that we lower successively one, second and third pipes. It is important to connect them securely to prevent them from spontaneously sinking into the well.

1. Using a small bowl, deepen the source. Work with it continues until water flows.
2. Having deepened the pipe, we take out all viscous liquid, until sand appears.
3. Then with the help of jacks take out the pipe.

1. Then you can start pumping water pump. Within a few days the water will be with sand.

When working, it is recommended to follow these tips:

• a thick layer of clay should be bored;
• if there is flush at the bottom of the well, then you can purify the water by installing a smaller filtering screen, which is often used in the purification of gasoline;
• so that in winter the water does not freeze when the pump is off, a hole is made in the pipe.

Conclusion

After analyzing the presented methods of drilling a well, you can choose the most suitable option for yourself. When arranging a water source, it is not necessary to resort to the help of specialists and buy expensive drilling rigs. You can save money by doing the work yourself, and if you watch the video in this article, there will be no questions left.