Hi All, Let me preface all of this by saying I know less than nothing about wells. I need some advice and clarification.
My wife and I just bought a new house in Northern Arizona. There is a deep well in a well house and outside it is a 4,500 gallon holding tank. It appears to be a nice system for water, there's a fancy VFD panel on the wall and a nice pressure tank that goes to the house. The holding tank also has a Grundfos submersible well pump.
Recently, the holding tank started making very loud & strange noises, almost like it was forcing air into the tank and it was echoing loudly within the chamber.
I called a local Well Drilling company to come out and diagnose the problem and fix it. They were there for 2.5 hours and there was A LOT of confusion from the two techs, & an hour long phone call with the owner of the company who was walking them through what to test. (The confusion arose from why I had two wells, which I still don't have an answer to. They also kept mentioning that they were getting an F3 error.)
They finally diagnosed the problem to be a bad submersible well pump in the holding tank.
They said this was best case scenario for me, since if the deep well was bad-- they would have to drill a hole in the top of the well house and it would be a much bigger/more expensive project.
They said they'd contact me with a quote and all was well. After they left, I googled the average cost to replace a submersible well pump and it seemed like I was looking at a cost of around $1200 - $1500 which seemed reasonable.
I just got the quote from them today and this is what it says:
Grundfos in tank constant pressure system to replace existing failed unit: $5,200
Labor to replace: 3.5 hrs @ $85 ($297.50)
Misc Materials & Supplies: $25
Total (with tax): $5,854.29
Why is this so expensive?
Do I really need a constant pressure system?
Am I getting ripped off?
Thank you in advance for your time!!
My wife and I just bought a new house in Northern Arizona. There is a deep well in a well house and outside it is a 4,500 gallon holding tank. It appears to be a nice system for water, there's a fancy VFD panel on the wall and a nice pressure tank that goes to the house. The holding tank also has a Grundfos submersible well pump.
Recently, the holding tank started making very loud & strange noises, almost like it was forcing air into the tank and it was echoing loudly within the chamber.
I called a local Well Drilling company to come out and diagnose the problem and fix it. They were there for 2.5 hours and there was A LOT of confusion from the two techs, & an hour long phone call with the owner of the company who was walking them through what to test. (The confusion arose from why I had two wells, which I still don't have an answer to. They also kept mentioning that they were getting an F3 error.)
They finally diagnosed the problem to be a bad submersible well pump in the holding tank.
They said this was best case scenario for me, since if the deep well was bad-- they would have to drill a hole in the top of the well house and it would be a much bigger/more expensive project.
They said they'd contact me with a quote and all was well. After they left, I googled the average cost to replace a submersible well pump and it seemed like I was looking at a cost of around $1200 - $1500 which seemed reasonable.
I just got the quote from them today and this is what it says:
Grundfos in tank constant pressure system to replace existing failed unit: $5,200
Labor to replace: 3.5 hrs @ $85 ($297.50)
Misc Materials & Supplies: $25
Total (with tax): $5,854.29
Why is this so expensive?
Do I really need a constant pressure system?
Am I getting ripped off?
Thank you in advance for your time!!