Alright, we actually struck water, but it is going to take gold to pay for it. Ha Ha. This is the part of building this house that I have been sickest about. It is so unpredictable how deep you will actually have to go and it is a lot of money. We thought we had water at 620 feet. He said we had 190 feet of water down there and that should be plenty for a house forever. Well, turns out we were only getting 5 gallons per minute and the requirement is 30 gallons per minute. Sooooo, they had to keep digging. Uhhhhggg. I was so sick to my stomach while we waited to hear. A nearby rest area had to go to 800 feet and that was going to add a lot on to what we had planned for the well. (They originally bid/guesstimated us at 700 feet.) At 720 feet they hit a geyser! Ha Ha, I don't think it is really considered a geyser but there was so much water it shot up to 80 feet below ground. PHEW! They said we shouldn't have to ever worry about water or pressure!
To put this in perspective wells in Pocatello are only 100 feet deep. The river below our house is 200 feet down. A football field is 300 feet. We are over 2 football fields deep into the ground to get water!
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| Here is the well digging machine. |
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Another view
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| This is what they were blowing out of the ground as they went. For awhile there it was sand. We have a mini beach at our house now! :-) |
We finished taping and texturing this week and start trim this next week. Kory built our pillars on the front porch and our exterior guy has started working. I think we might actually get to live in this house someday! It has been such an exhausting process!
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| Pillars on front porch! These are going to look awesome when they are all snazzied up! |
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| Another view of the pillars! |
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| Bridger chilling in our front entry!! |
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| Front entry mid sheetrocking. |
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| Setup in the family room to finish sheetrock! |
And just because I can't get over how lucky I am to have these boys in my life! (you have to actually say it how I have clearly enunciated it below. :-))
My Boys!
MY Boys!
My BOYS!!
