Well, well, well

I came home to an interesting site on Friday...Sampeth our gardener was going down into the well. Evidently the pump was going bad. So Sampeth at one point was swimming in the well to get the ladder positioned so they could stand in the water. The well looks to be about 30 ft deep with maybe 20 ft of water. Of course I am thinking he is swimming in the water I take a shower in....
The pump eventually got replaced that afternoon. Then on Saturday and Sunday we had a lot of trouble with water pressure. So of course trying to find a plumber to come on Sunday afternoon was pretty hard to do. At one point we did manage to have 2 plumbers here....one knew what he was doing. India is very good in the technical field but you give them things like plumbing and there are troubles. Fortunately Ted is gifted in the technical field and began troubleshooting the problem. He had Bhaskar translate to the plumber what seemed to be the problem so now it is fixed and we are back in the water business again! The water gets pumped from the well to the top of the house to the water tower. The water goes in one tank and then is filtered into another tank and then it comes into the house. Somewhere there is a pressure tank that provides us with a a lot of water pressure which is awesome. The water seems to be coming just fine but Bhaskar informed us that the wrong type or size of pump was used....that will be a whole new story. We have found that when something doesn't work quite right don't bother trying to fix it!




Note the photo of the man in the well is one of the plumbers. The man standing on the well is Sampeth the gardener. The last photo is of the water tower...very top of house with ladder going up.