Pump it UP

There are many joys to owning your own home. It is NOT, however, a joy to fix your 30 year old plumbing. This is our rusty old pump that gave out leaving us high and dry until we learned/prayed/fidgeted/cursed a new one into its place. We were four days without water (thank you Mike and Sara for letting us use your place), three trips to three different hardware stores (up yours HMP we can do it ourselves), and with the advice of many friends and acquaintances.

To put the new pump in, we had to piece together a PVC pipe puzzle. Ya see, the new pump has inlet and outlet spouts at different places than the old pump. The connections are also different sizes. So the 11:00pm plumbing fiasco was interesting.

Thanks to Quill, Timber and I, the new pump is in and working great. We do have one leak, we just need a large plumbing wrench to tighten a pipe. We are quite proud of ourselves. Victory for the homeowners.
Old Pump

See all the Rust!

New pump and plumbing.