Well maintenance is well insurance for Richmond homes and offices – winter or summer

Imagine your well technician coming out to turn the water back on in your Richmond home on a day such as this.

The snow and cold are coming. After all, it’s winter and it’s Richmond, Illinois. How cold? How much snow? The answers to those questions are still shrouded by the shadows of what is to be. But, rest assured, they are coming.

There is no good time to turn on a faucet and discover you have no water. Certainly, that’s true in the winter. If you’ve done a good job of maintaining the well at your Richmond home or office, you won’t have to worry about that. If you have had your well maintained on a timely basis, you probably called your well technician out to your home or office during the warmer months.

It’s easier for them to perform well maintenance on your well when the sun is shining and it’s 80 degrees. On the other hand, not only are the weather conditions harsher for the well technician, the process is increasingly difficult in the winter.

Well maintenance includes chlorinating the well. To do this properly, requires flushing the well, too. When flushing a well on an 80-degree day, the water tends to merely soak into the ground. When it’s below freezing, however, the water doesn’t act the same.

The frost line won’t allow the water to soak into the ground. And, water standing on the surface, on a below-freezing day, tends to harden – it turns to ice.

Additionally, if there is snow on the ground, the well technician may have to spend time locating the well under all that snow.

Here at McHenry Water Well & Pump, we understand what it means to go without water. Customers facing that dilemma call us all the time. You can’t cook. You can’t bathe. You can’t even flush the toilet. Water is a vital fluid that runs through a home or office. Turn the water off and other processes tend to atrophy.

Good weather or bad, warm or cold, when called, we’re on our way as soon as possible. We treat a lack of running water as an emergency because that’s how our customers see it. We’ll come out and get the water running as quickly as possible – that’s our promise, our commitment.

We just don’t like to see people families without water. Knowing that the difference between a well that works and well that doesn’t is almost always a matter of proper maintenance, we encourage our customers to have their wells maintained on a regular basis. It’s inexpensive well insurance.

If your Richmond well hasn’t been maintained in a while, give us a call. Call somebody but, please, don’t wait until the water stops flowing.

With a little well maintenance Richmond residents won’t have to yell

The quiet tranquility of Richmond is suddenly shattered when you turn the faucet on and nothing happens – no water comes out. “Aaargghhh” Neighbors on the other side of Richmond can hear you holler.

An inconvenience? You bet. Your well provides water so loyally that you’ve come to take it completely for granted. When, unexpectedly, it stops working, you discover just how much you’ve come to depend on that well.

Think about it: you use water to bath and shower; wash your hands, clothes, car and dishes and to cook. You probably use the water from your well to water the lawn and garden and to give your pets a drink. When the water stops, all those trivial actions take on new importance and you also discover that you can’t flush the toilet.

This isn’t hypothetical. This is precisely what will happen if you fail to properly maintain your well. Maintaining your well includes checking the well pump and motor, well tank, electrical connections and the well cap. It also includes making sure the water is safe to drink. Of course, that’s a whole different crisis.

The good news is that you don’t have to check your well every other week. Rather, an annual well check and maintenance, including chlorination, is all it takes. Follow those simple steps by calling a qualified water and well technician, and you’ll have the confidence of knowing your water is all but sure to keep flowing. Neglect your well and you may have reason to yell, not to mention the additional cost of fixing a well as compared to simple maintenance.