How to dig a well

Great value for a comfortable life in a country house is the presence of a source of drinking water. Typically such sources are wells or wells. The construction of the well at the cottage it is expedient if the aquifer depth is 20-25 meters. Well compares favorably with well over a long service life and easier maintenance. Choosing a future source of drinking water find out about how the neighbors have solved this issue, what the approximate depth of the pits in them.

If you decide to dig a well, the best time of year for this fall or winter, when the lowest water level. In spring and summer the ground water level may rise up to several meters, so the depth of the well can not guess.

Digging a well, you'll need a wooden or metal box with a two-handed collar and a large thick-walled bucket, shovel, ax, crowbar. Modern wells are made of concrete rings height of 90 centimeters and 1 meter in diameter. Choosing rings big enough, look to your liking.

The principle of simple digging wells. Digging a hole size of the ring and the first ring set. From beneath remove installed rings ground ring under its own weight starts to fall. It is important to follow (with a plumb) for uniform recessed, without distortions. Thus, the worker is constantly digging and loading the bucket, and the remaining workers raise the ground to the surface and pour out of the bucket.

The next ring is installed on top of the tracks. The joints between the concrete rings smeared with the addition of a solution of liquid glass. After drying the solution continues excavation pit. To pass the clay layer, you may need an ax or crowbar. And if a large boulder will fall, you may have to dig a well in a different place. Thus, the ring of the ring set vertical column. The depth of the well should be such that water fills the first ring. Subsequently use a submersible pump whereby roll back the water until it is clear. The last ring is mounted on the surface on it equipped with a protective canopy.

Around the well carefully tamped the soil, a little late to do blind area.

While digging a well to observe safety rules and follow the well-being.