Cost of a new Well for a House?

[Jurollo]

I am considering buying a house which needs a new well in addition to being a total gut job. I am attempting to crunch some numbers for long term profitability of the property and obviously this task weighs pretty heavily on my bottom line. Has anyone had experience with installing a new well or getting one fixed? (I would call around but it is Sunday and nowhere is open for business)
~Justin

[threeonefour]

i think this depends very heavily on your area's water table.


do you have an estimate for how far down you are going to have to go?

in the place i grew up some wells were 100+ feet deep (i don't know anything about wells actually but i think thats really deep).

[Ray Zee]

everywhere the price is different but figure at least 20 bucks a foot and then hooking it up with the pump and plumbing it at least a 1000 more. so most well diggers have at least a 2000 minimum and most wells go over 100 feet to get good water some go 1000 and some never hit it. its all a gamble even if you old well was ten feet away.

[The4Aces]

In Kansas I just had a well dug. Water table is pretty high here. 40 feet. We got lucky and hit at 30 feet but dug deeper.

Also there are psibilities of digging and never hitting the table... and then u get stuck and have to do a do over.

[cbloom]

Sort of a hijack but what's the viability of building a house in the middle of nowhere totally off the grid? Dig a well for water, solar for power, some kind of composting toilet I guess. It seems like the technology these days is getting good enough that you can do it and live in relative comfort.