“Off Grid” Water Solution’s?? To cut a very long story…
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“Off Grid” Water Solution’s??
To cut a very long story short, my husband and I got the amazing opportunity to purchase a decent sized property surrounded by 1100 acres of state forest! The down side was it sat vacant for 5 years prior and the home was falling apart. So very little questions asked we signed the deal, and prepared to live life the way we’d wanted and envisioned for years!
My family had hired another family member who is a very well known contractor in the area to help with some repairs and to do the initial inspection. And stupidly so, he had convinced us to keep the home that sits on the property (we wanted to move a park model RV onto the property and build later)
and he had signed off on the condition of the well and septic. He began repairs, and never showed up to finish. Anything.
We are currently living with no running water, no bathroom floor, no kitchen cabinets or real kitchen, no shingles on the roof, unknown septic; the well-house plumbing was detached and separated. We called another plumbing company out and they couldn’t make heads or tails of it, the system is a mess of garden hose, tape and old waterlines. The quote for repairs is out of budget right now because they want to gut it and start fresh, and given we had paid a small fortune for it to be repaired and inspected by someone we trusted. That’s not an option right now.
We’re taking on smaller repairs in the house as far as flooring, etc but we are in over our heads for plumbing. Right now we’re living life out of 5 gallon jugs, and the toilet to our much smaller project RV. We turn the switch on for the well pump and go to the water line that’s just dangling out of the well house to fill 35 gallons every 2 days. But lugging them everywhere is a lot given having three young children and a plethora of repairs so I’m just curious to see if anyone else has any better solutions!
I wouldn’t mind a water storage set up, but does anyone have any advice to get a hot shower again? Literally any and all advice is welcome!
If you had to completely gut and renovate an older mobile home or just buy something new which would you choose? Really just trying to make heads of this because this is our forever home and with the kids this hasn’t been easy!!!
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To cut a very long story short, my husband and I got the amazing opportunity to purchase a decent sized property surrounded by 1100 acres of state forest! The down side was it sat vacant for 5 years prior and the home was falling apart. So very little questions asked we signed the deal, and prepared to live life the way we’d wanted and envisioned for years!
My family had hired another family member who is a very well known contractor in the area to help with some repairs and to do the initial inspection. And stupidly so, he had convinced us to keep the home that sits on the property (we wanted to move a park model RV onto the property and build later)
and he had signed off on the condition of the well and septic. He began repairs, and never showed up to finish. Anything.
We are currently living with no running water, no bathroom floor, no kitchen cabinets or real kitchen, no shingles on the roof, unknown septic; the well-house plumbing was detached and separated. We called another plumbing company out and they couldn’t make heads or tails of it, the system is a mess of garden hose, tape and old waterlines. The quote for repairs is out of budget right now because they want to gut it and start fresh, and given we had paid a small fortune for it to be repaired and inspected by someone we trusted. That’s not an option right now.
We’re taking on smaller repairs in the house as far as flooring, etc but we are in over our heads for plumbing. Right now we’re living life out of 5 gallon jugs, and the toilet to our much smaller project RV. We turn the switch on for the well pump and go to the water line that’s just dangling out of the well house to fill 35 gallons every 2 days. But lugging them everywhere is a lot given having three young children and a plethora of repairs so I’m just curious to see if anyone else has any better solutions!
I wouldn’t mind a water storage set up, but does anyone have any advice to get a hot shower again? Literally any and all advice is welcome!
If you had to completely gut and renovate an older mobile home or just buy something new which would you choose? Really just trying to make heads of this because this is our forever home and with the kids this hasn’t been easy!!!
#home
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