Drewsonian
New Member
I have a home in Ohio with a private well that supplies our house and the previous owners ran water lines out to a barn about 450 feet away from the house to supply water for small livestock. It has a shutoff and three stage filter in the house before it feeds out to the barn and I've mostly left it shut off since we haven't used the water in the barn yet but we're planning on starting to use it more as we are raising chickens and plan to get goats in the coming years.
My first question is - should I make it a practice to turn the line off at the house when we're not using it? We'd probably be using it daily for a few gallons, but I didn't know if having that much more plumbing for the tank/pump to pressurize could cause any unwanted issues like major drops in pressure in the house or anything.
Another question - are there any fittings / check valves / devices / etc that should be installed when a water line is running out to another building like this? Like if the outside line breaks is there a risk of groundwater being introduced back into my house that I should have a check valve in place or something?
Thanks for your insight, I've been a long time lurker on this forum.
Drew
My first question is - should I make it a practice to turn the line off at the house when we're not using it? We'd probably be using it daily for a few gallons, but I didn't know if having that much more plumbing for the tank/pump to pressurize could cause any unwanted issues like major drops in pressure in the house or anything.
Another question - are there any fittings / check valves / devices / etc that should be installed when a water line is running out to another building like this? Like if the outside line breaks is there a risk of groundwater being introduced back into my house that I should have a check valve in place or something?
Thanks for your insight, I've been a long time lurker on this forum.
Drew