Hi does anyone have any experience or info on where I start with connecting to our well. The house we have bought is the last one without water supply in the hamlet and it’s at my property also.
Where do I buy they equipment
Is it cheaper to buy in the uk and drive it over
What do I need etc
First off you have to declare your project to use well water at your marie. It may be on your land but there are controls of using ground water.
This is from Gers, but will be similar everywhere
I second @JaneJones comment.
24 years ago we were held to ransom over getting a new mains water supply connected to our barn (that became a house). We were poised to go down the borehole route which revealed that we would have had to get approval (by no means would that have been automatic) &, of course, have the water tested regularly.
The happy ending was that the ransom went away, so the borehole option wasn’t required.
Do bear in mind that if your borehole doesn’t have power you will also lose your water supply 
The well is used by the house already just doesn’t have a proper system connected the old owner used to run a hose. I’m more interested in setting up a system as been told when I’ve bought it all is fine to use it
How deep is the well and how deep to the water level. That would decide on what pump. Then there is the distance from the well to where it’s needed and of course power for the pump.
I will have to measure all that. It’s an old brick well. It’s about 3m from the house so getting power to it isn’t a problem
Do find out where you or any neighbours have the outputs from their septic tanks. There are both legal rules on this and more important you do not really want contaminated water…
We have a legacy well already on site but far too close to filter beds so fine for watering plants but no way would I let it near the house.
Is your house all on ground level or is there an upstairs where water is required. If the latter, then you may need a pressure tank that the pump replenishes in order to obtain a decent flow upstairs. The question of the number of water delivery points, there location height wise above the pump, and the number of people that can occupy the house at the same time will all dictate the size of pump and pressure vessel needed.
To be honest, when you add together the cost of the initial purchase and installation, the cost of the electricity to run it, the cost of the annual water quality check at the laboratory, plus the cost of a stand-by generator for when there’s a power cut, it could be cheaper to just be connected to the mains supply.
Another question is reliability of replenishment of the well with water. The rate at which it refills from the surrounding ground may be fine for a couple who just take a shower once a week whether they need it or not, but if there are more people taking daily showers and flushing toilets and using a washing machine much more frequently than the previous occupiers, then you could have a problem with the well running dry in the summer.
Mains water will always be there in the vast majority of communes, require no maintenance, and will still work during a power cut.
We have a well which was the water supply to our house until about a year ago when we connected to the public supply. There is a large electric pump in our cellar that feeds from the bottom of the well. The connection goes through the wall of the well into a vertical pipe to the base of the well . The pump is above the level of the well water. The pump feeds the well water into a large storage cylinder that is adjacent to it. The switching on/off of the pump is determined by a pressure switch that maintains the storage cylinder at about 3 bar. We use the well water for the garden, patio cleaning and etc. Open the tap in the garden water and flows from the pressurised cylinder with some slight pulsing as the pump tops up the cylinder.
I don’t know if our set up is standard but in terms of equipment its a powerful pump, a big storage cylinder and a pressure switch. Pipework and electrics of course.
@Carl_Fairhurst do you know if/when the public "Drinking Water " might be available to your property?
Did they provide proof of this, and the most recent water analysis? Previous owners of house we’ve just bought were liars!
We had/have exactly the same set up as @GraemeL but after the pressurised water tank, the flow went through a series of filters (3nr.) decreasing in filter mesh size and then finally, through a UV filter - (Germi Ultra).
We also had the water tested at a lab for trace metals.
All good, but because we live here full-time, we were always worried about capacity…so in the end, spent the money and now have mains water. (The length of the connection pipe was 2.5 km’s and it cost a bit!).
Oh…I would not buy stuff from UK…might not fit nor comply etc etc. All of the expertise will be near to you plus all of the equipment and fittings I got most of the stuff here:
…And as other have said, see if you can get mains water…saves all the pain.
Good luck!
My BIL’s pump failed last summer, it’s a very deep well circa 20m with a multi stage pump submerged in the well. He had the local guys come out but they couldn’t lift the old pump, it seems stuck towards the bottom of the well. Next question was “could I go down and get it?” Oh and fix a new one in. I declined and went on to explain the need for breathing apparatus a sound means of recovering me from the depths of the well in case anything went wrong, ergo I declined again. The pump the locals were trying to sell him was by my calculations twice the size (capacity) they needed. I deferred to a Scottish farming forum to check and they agreed so not always believing the locals can save quite a lot of money as well.
….I failed to state that we don’t have a well, only a 30m cu underground water store. Really scary with a vertical ladder going to the base.
The submersible pump is attached to chains and was (according to the previous owner, fitted by Katie Melua when she was staying here working on some music stuff with the previous owner….who that she is a very capable services engineer!.)…anyhows, all works and we use the water to irrigation now.
Did you find thirty million bicycles in there as well, just wondering where she may have got the idea for the song.
Despite the BIL’s pump also suspended on chains apparently it won’t budge. I said until the chain snaps, you are not trying hard enough!
…very 
I think that if I thought Katie Melua might come around and fit it, I would decide to sink a well whether I needed it or not. 
…. actually, I can’t say I know her music but we do affectionately call it….’Katie’s pump’ and realise on writing this that it really does read or sound fantastic, and there’s probably another dubious double entendre there…somewhere.
The pump is bright red by the way.
I have a citern dating back to medieval times, all the old houses in the village are on the same network. I plumbed in a 1.5 bar pump & pressure tank, the pressure tank is to preserve the ware and tare of the pump. I’ve plumbed in the toilets, washing machine & out side tap to water the garden washing the cars etc.
If anyone goes down this route & have a mains supply you must have separate circuits.
If the pump is in the house, do not install a shelve for the pump directly bolted on a wall, the pump vibrates and the vibrations will be heard though the walls, I’d advise to hang it from straps as I’ve done.
I don’t think that you need to have separate circuits, but there is a requirement for an non return valve to be fitted immediately the house side of the mains water meter to prevent well water from entering the public mains sytem.
