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  1. Family IVANOVYH, Yaroslavl region.

    There is an old well in our dacha section. The previous owners said that they used water from it as drinking water. However, it was cloudy, and we were afraid to drink it. Another water, tap, on the site for a long time will not be. Is there any way to purify water from a well?

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    • Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

      Probably, the well has not been used for a long time, and with prolonged stagnation of water, organic residues (for example, foliage, if there is no cover over the well), decomposition takes place, the water gets an unpleasant smell and becomes turbid.
      The depressurization of seams, joints or cracks on the walls contributes to the penetration of the upper waters with mud, sand, sewage. It is also necessary to check the presence of a clay "apron" along the perimeter of the well-it protects against the "perchage" entering the well water.
      Having found out the reason, you will have to carry out restoration work. Pump out all the water, clean the walls of internal layers with a stiff brush, scoop up organic debris and debris from the bottom with buckets. Repair the walls of the well, closing all joints and cracks. The next stage is disinfection with chlorine-based preparations or ultraviolet radiation. It is better to entrust this work to specialists or at least consult with them when choosing a disinfectant in order to know how long it will work.

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  2. Igor

    If there is no way to aim at anything large, start small. A win-win option is a decorative well. If you have a few hundred square meters, the interesting design of the well is quite capable of turning it into an architectural dominant of the suburban area. Immediately make a reservation that the decorative well is not just an ornament. A light log house of unusual shape can be covered, for example, with a water well. Is it bad, if instead of a dull iron pipe a fairy tale will appear?
    Where you want, put it there
    In addition, such a decorative well will also be fully functional.
    If the well performs only a decorative function, this also has its own plus. Indeed, in this case, you can place it in any corner of the site, exactly where it will look best. For example, at the bathhouse or at the border of the garden zone. By the way, in each of these cases, a decorative well will be not only an image detail. If a decorative log house hides a barrel of water, then you can water the garden and roll out of the bucket after the steam room. My well is just that - with a barrel. Moreover, since the necessary
    the size of the logs I did not have at hand, I had to refuse the log.
    I took a frost-resistant plastic cistern and dug it into the ground. The size of the pit made 30 cm more than the size of the tank, in order to compress the soil later. The bottom laid out a brick with a sand cushion in 20 cm. On this basis, the tank "does not walk" when the soil freezes and thaws. From the ground the tank stood on 40 cm.
    Around the tank, I made a reinforced concrete blind with a thickness of 10 cm. I let the solution dry and took up the work with the tree. For racks bought a bar (its size will depend on the size of your capacity, but at least 5X5). You can fix the beams in two ways.
    1. Vrubka "vpolderova."
    2. Connection in the groove, fastened by tightening bolts. Roof over the well I recommend to make of the same material as the roof of the house or bath.
    The most pleasant stage pleasing to the eye is the finishing decorative finish of the walls of the well. You can cover the walls with decorative brick, stones or tiles.
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