Gah..no water

[Tiempo]

Flow just stopped while I was washing dishes..nothing to the whole house.

What could it be other than the well pump?

[painterswife]

The breaker to the pump.

[Janis Sauncy]

Oh, I am so sorry. I hate being without water; you can't flush the toilet, you can't grab a quick drink of water.......

A couple of weeks ago, I didn't have water. It turned out the dogs had been playing under the porch and had knocked the cover off the little power box. That was an easy (and cheap!) fix....once I figured it out.

Two years ago, my pump went out. It cost me a little over $1200.00 to replace it. That was for the pump and labor. Obviously, if you and your husband can replace it yourselves (maybe with a little help from a few friends?), your cost would be considerably less.

Good luck.

Janis

[Tiempo]

Originally Posted by painterswife

The breaker to the pump.

My first thought was panic and post, my second thought was the breaker.

Bingo.....phew.

[Janis Sauncy]

What would cause the breaker to trip?

Janis

[Tiempo]

Originally Posted by Janis Sauncy

What would cause the breaker to trip?

Janis

That was my next thought

I don't know.

[agmantoo]

I will help you get the water back but prefer not to take a shotgun approach. Lets rethink the situation.
Obviously it is cold in your area isn't it?
Have you taken proper precautions to avoid freezing pipes?
Where is the pressure switch located?
Do you have a multimeter or anything to verify power is available at the points on the pressure switch?
Do you have power at those contact points?
Are the contact points open or closed?
Is the pump a submersible type?
Is there a working pressure switch at the storage tank and if so is there a reading?
Answer these questions and we can get started with a fix.

[galfriend]

Be careful if your breaker tripped and ya flip it back on ...like I did a couple of weeks ago. Stood there for a few seconds and discovered my wire coming from breaker box going to well was crackling, popping and shooting fire! Flipped breaker back OFF. I had a broken wire~
Just from my experience, breakers trip for a reason.
Maybe if your breaker didn't trip its something as simple as a spider shorted out your points. (points are inside that lil box that is beside your well) Turn breaker to well off though before ya unscrew that box and look there!
Thats all my well knowledge, sorry aint much.
Hope its simple and ya gett'er fixed real soon!

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by Tiempo

Flow just stopped while I was washing dishes..nothing to the whole house.

What could it be other than the well pump?

Frozen pipes? This is certainly the right time of the year to start seeing that.

[watcher]

Might just need to replace the breaker. My main pump started acting strange. The breaker would break but it was completely random. One day the water would be out 5 or 6 times. Then there would be periods of days where it'd work without a hiccup. After racking my brain and checking everything I could think of I replaced the breaker. So far its been about 2 weeks w/o a problem.

[Jenn]

Originally Posted by Nevada

Frozen pipes? This is certainly the right time of the year to start seeing that.

Happened to me- we had the pipes coming up in a plastic box above ground. Guess the prior owners used to add insulation in fall and we hadn't realised. So I did also- a mound of dirt, in which I grew sweet potatos the next years.

[BethW]

This happened to us this summer...two hours before we were having a party and 8 overnight guests.

Turned out it was the control box in the wellhouse. We'd had a nearby lightning strike 2 weeks earlier that fried our phones and apparently it had damaged the well controls just enough that it kept going for a time and then quit just at the worst possible time.