Thank you, this is reassuring! 😊

Honestly good luck. If you’re market is as busy as most places they will probably keep ignoring you or overbid the job.

Thank you for your input! Is there any chance I could get away with putting the dye stain over my existing stain, or would I need to sand it off and try again sans conditioner?

Interesting! I've never heard of that, but it's good to know.

What a weird argument. The data is there for soldered plumbing. That's exactly why the argument is the way it is. You're saying you trust sharkbite more because published data saying it's worse doesn't exist. But, more importantly, published data saying that it's better doesn't exist - and that's everyone else's problem with it. Rubber doesn't last as long as metal, so people are rightly skeptical.

Boil what you drink. Wait on the well. It'll fix itself eventually.

Yep, I've done a lot of environmental sampling of wells, which includes pumping them down at times. Basically, your well is fine, your just pumping it down more quickly than it refills. You'll probably find that it's hard to completely pump the well dry, but it's possible. I'd just give it 12 hrs and check it, you should be significantly diluted by then. If not, repeat the process.

As stated, the e coli is a sign that something isn't right, and usually with a hand dug well there is surface water intrusion causing the issue.

Thanks buddy, will do

As long as the inverter has an ON/OFF switch, you can leave it connected. Make sure you fuse the battery output.

Didn't know I could do that. I'm pretty rubbed in with residential electric in houses since I've remodeled homes for 20 years. But this dc/battery stuff throws me off. Can I leave the inverter hooked to along with the charger or should I buy 1 or 2 disconnects?

I would charge them together. Two chargers mean you have to disconnect/charge/reconnect the 2 packs each time. And the 2 packs must be at the same state of charge when paralleled.

I like the one guy who commented and made a cart for his batteries in another thread. And the more I think about it, having 2 would be better overall for lots of reasons for wear and tear and extended time. Maybe 30 minutes might not be enough but an hour would. Now I'm if a single bank charger is ok for 2 batteries in parallel or get a 2 bank charger.

Is the rubber gasket in there? The female end of that hose?

Boil the well?

> if one battery can handle the surge of a table saw

That depends on how much current the battery can provide. The Ah rating is not a measure of power or energy. Ah times volts is energy in watt-hours. You need a high enough Continuous Discharge Rating (CDR) for the peak load. 15A @120VAC is the same power as 150A at 12VDC (ignoring conversion losses). The Ah rating can be used to estimate run time, but the Ah rating is not specified at maximum discharge rate. A 2000mAh cell can deliver 2A for an hour, but if you draw 20 A from it, the Ah rating will go down. It won't run a 20A load for 0.1 hour.

Yeah 200 is high enough.

You should double up the LiFePo4 batteries. They are usually rated to 1C discharge rates or 1 times its capacity. In this case, you're limited to 100 amps, or 1,200 watts, continuously.

That union doesn't need teflon tape. The rubber gasket inside the female/but end makes the seal.

I applied it flat so it would fit in to the grooves and not mess up the threading at all. How much torque is proper? I may have tightened it too much

You have the right idea. Are you certain you applied the tape correctly? Proper torque on the nut?

Glad you commented, I didn't know that make an inverter/charger. Was curious how all that worked. I like your set up. I'm gonna start with one battery and maybe do a cart like yours if I think I need it. Thanks

Let it refill and repeat the pump down. Don't fill it with a water truck.

The well just isn't producing much compared to its volume. Might be ok, but it's a hint to think about the future.

Was water running in from the surface? Is the well house nice and tight? Rodent proof ?E coli almost always gets into wells from the surface, and there's nothing for it to eat down there. Frankly it's an indicator that poop got in the well somewhat recently (not years ago).

If you used chlorine then you might neutralise it with H2O2. In my country you get both the bleach and the H2O2 at pharmacies along with information on how to use them. What they gave us was same amount H2O2 as chlorine... but there might be different concentrations available. Good luck!

Bleach denatures over time. If you do nothing it will eventually be fine. If you need to speed it up up for drinking, boiling it releases the chlorine. Also, you can do a vitamin C dechlorination, but there's math involved, so look it up.

Where I am they're doing commercial farming, and many people are finding their wells no longer hit the aquifer because of how low it now is. Soon we're going to have no groundwater at all, but at least they'll have alfalfa and hay for their horses....

To your question, the bleach will eventually break down into Chlorine gas, sodium ions, and water. How much did you add?