Well Well Well...

Well (Ba dum tss), it's time for the next chapter of Wyn and Co.'s Series of Unfortunate Events.

I mentioned privately to friends last week our well broke. Yea so, IT'S SO MUCH WORSE than that.

The well took some damage during Helene, but was city inspected, water tested, and cleared for use. It was working fine until...it wasn't.

See we live on a mountain at like 3000 to 4000 feet and we aren't on the city's water system. We don't live in the flat town, we are nearly half an hour up a windy mountain road from town to get to our house. LITERALLY ON THE MOUNTAIN. The well is our water and plumbing source.

Thursday, Jan 9, 2026 the water just quit working. It was really cold, so first thing we did was check for frozen pipes or maybe a frozen well. It was in the negatives, anything's possible. Cat takes a walk out to the wellhouse to check on the thing, and it's bad news. Well's broke.

So she called a well company and they sent our an estimator to judge the job and they quoted us an initial 500 USD for a well pump switch.

Mon Jan 12th, 4 days without water and living on gallons (which we were starting to not be able to afford. Water put us negative 3 times.),

The estimator returns unexpected at night, takes another look at the well and leaves. He doesn't really talk to anyone, we actually only noticed out of a window. He later sends us a message saying they wouldn't be working on the well even after saying they would because it would be too much labor on the company and wasn't a commitment they were "willing to make"

Thursday, Jan 15, 2026
New well plumber arrives and says the tank is going bad but isn't nonfunctional yet, but he did replace the broken switch. Now, we sorta have water back. The issue isn't fixed, there are more issues. He was really nice and taught Cat how to change switches in the meantime.

*He warned us the tank IS failing, and the switches are gonna burn out faster over time, this well WILL fail again.*

Oh and now that the water is back on? Our toilet is broken. Turns out, while the water was out in that blast freeze, things well, froze. We DO know the pipe to our toilet has sprung a leak.

So toilet doesn't care about the valve that tells it to shut off. Water is filling the back tank of the toilet until it hits the luckily installed failsafe drain, and drains making our toilet infinitely flush. Self flushing toilet is cool I guess? Whenever the water level in the toilet gets below this new crack in the piping, the water sprays like mad from the crack until the water covers it again, where the spraying is quieter. Sounds like my butt's about to go to jupiter.

Cost breakdown As it stands:

[Money already Spent]
Well: 350 USD

[Future Self repairs if the switch breaks]
Pressure switch: 40 DIY

[Known Future Costs]
Pressure switch: 265 professional install
Pressure tank replacement: ~2,000 if fair professional, but Up to 5,000 with labor
Pipe Wrench - About 40 - 80 USD

Money spent on Gallons Of Water: 93 and ticking

Oh and Cat's in a boot because she broke her toe.

Did we mention the car broke [the one FEMA helped us get] and we had to take out a loan to get a new one? Because yea that happened too

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