Build a well yourself

If you want to build your own well yourself, you should first think about the intended use. For example, there are impact wells in which a pipe with a ram tip attached at the bottom is dug into the ground until the groundwater appears and which are only suitable for garden irrigation, or shaft wells for drinking water and seepage wells from 50 cm to 2.50 m wide, in which a conical shaft is dug into which the concrete rings are inserted and which are then suitable as infiltration systems for rainwater are. A shaft well differs only slightly from a seepage well. For example, water is usually not allowed to be withdrawn from a seepage well for watering, etc. take place, while a shaft well is not considered a drainage well until you have connected all the rain gutters on your house roof to a collecting pipe in the drainage well. In addition, a well made for draining seepage water is no longer suitable for producing drinking water.

Beat his well by hand

• Inquire in your community about the regulations for building private wells and at what depth the groundwater flows. Sometimes the groundwater is already available at a depth of two meters.
• A pothole is usually of limited productivity and lifespan. In addition, it can become problematic from a hygienic point of view if the pipes grow algae or perhaps rust.
• If you want to build a small shaft well with a diameter of only 50 cm, you have to note that the excavation of the hole requires a lot more space. Nobody can move within a radius of 50 cm with the shovel in such a way that excavation is still possible, especially in the depths.
• A well up to 2 m deep can still be worked relatively easily without an excavator, from then on the rock may become so hard or loamy that a mini excavator can be very helpful. Remember that with a well diameter of 1.20 m, approx. 1/2 m³ of earth accumulates, which has to be removed.


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• If the rock is very hard at depth, you will need a long "goat foot" to knock the rock loosely so that you can dig it out. With a pimple it is usually no longer possible to work on such a narrow scale.

Make a water reservoir yourself

1. To build a pothole, first hammer a pipe with a ram tip and filter into the depth. About 50 cm above the ground, place the next pipe on the previously driven pipe and screw it together.
2. Never hit the pipe itself directly, so as not to destroy the thread, put a small block of wood on the pipe and hit the block of wood with the mallet. If the thread of the pipe is destroyed, you must cut a new thread in the pipe with the thread cutter.
3. Once you have knocked the second pipe back to within 50 cm of the earth, take a string (Spogat), to which a small pebble is firmly attached, and leave it in the pipe except for the Bottom down. Then pull the string back up and see if the string and the stone are wet.
4. If not, or if the line is sandy, screw another pipe to the one in the ground and knock it back down to 50 cm. Now it can get really exhausting and sweaty.
5. If the line is wet and clean, you can try a feed pump, which you have to ventilate beforehand. If there is too much sand and dirt, you have to hammer in another pipe. This water is not suitable for drinking as it is only surface water.
6. For one Shaft well you have to dig below the water table. It would be best to dig the well after a longer period of drought, as water would then also be available in the dry season and during this time the groundwater level would be lower.
7. You can first put the perforated well ring on top and dig inside the ring so that the well ring slides, but you can also excavate first and then the first (perforated) well ring insert. The first variant requires a little less effort.
8. The well floor is placed in the well. Finally, the conical closing ring is placed on the set well rings.
9. A seepage shaft is basically worked like a shaft well. For a drainage shaft you do without the base plate and lay a collecting pipe from your house rain gutter all around with a gradient of 1% to the drainage shaft, so that the rainwater from the house flows into the shaft without problems and then seeps through the drainage shaft can. The collecting pipe should be laid underground, as high as possible in the drainage shaft.

An infiltration shaft is not suitable for the production of drinking water, since you discharge your dirty rainwater into the infiltration shaft and no longer into the sewer.