A year round tiny house is to be built on the shore of a lake with pure water. It is a big lake in the northern Adirondacks, and is the water source for the town of 6000 people. It's deep freeze country, and in the coldest winters the lake ice can be a foot or more in thickness. The depth to the rock bottom near the dock, where the source can be, is over 8 feet. The water is beautiful, clear and clean.
One bathroom with shower, a washing machine, and a kitchen sink, is the list of water needs.
We envision a submerged pump with the PVC supply line heated inside with one of the smart cable products that protects from freezing, as the trench from shore to house is across rock terrain and the line depth will be shallow. A small emergency generator, propane fired, will be on a pad adjacent the house to get through the very very occasional outages.
A well driller has outfitted a couple of recent projects for us in the last year with well-sourced water for which the in-house equipment is a tiny 2g expansion tank and a control module for the well pump that ensures constant pressure.
Could such a setup be the inside-house end of the lake water coming in via the submerged pump? Same small arrangement, 2g expansion tank, control module the size of a box of cereal? We've designed in a mechanical closet, but it's a small space.
If so, how would the pump be specified? We envision an underwater stand of some type to keep the pump elevated off the bottom.
One bathroom with shower, a washing machine, and a kitchen sink, is the list of water needs.
We envision a submerged pump with the PVC supply line heated inside with one of the smart cable products that protects from freezing, as the trench from shore to house is across rock terrain and the line depth will be shallow. A small emergency generator, propane fired, will be on a pad adjacent the house to get through the very very occasional outages.
A well driller has outfitted a couple of recent projects for us in the last year with well-sourced water for which the in-house equipment is a tiny 2g expansion tank and a control module for the well pump that ensures constant pressure.
Could such a setup be the inside-house end of the lake water coming in via the submerged pump? Same small arrangement, 2g expansion tank, control module the size of a box of cereal? We've designed in a mechanical closet, but it's a small space.
If so, how would the pump be specified? We envision an underwater stand of some type to keep the pump elevated off the bottom.