Need Info on Overflowing Wells
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| Hi Herbgirl,
Sorry I have no experience with wells but the Repair Place forum guy may be able to help you as he's an excellent source of information. It's located next to OES photos on the bottom of the page. Good Luck to you! Marianne and the boys |
| Maryann,
Thanks for trying to help. Luckily it worked turning on the hose. We were really sweating it out. My husband and I don't really know that much about wells either but were learning. I did do a google search and typed in well troubleshooting but most of the troubleshooting was water contamination problems etc. not the well overflowing into the house. It's always something when you own a house. My next dilemna today is we have a mouse and it filled up my entire desk drawer with dog food. I need to catch it because at my friends house one put dog food in the insulation of her oven and it started a fire.I don't like to kill them either we got a live trap so we can release it but its not working. Last mouse I caught in a regular mouse trap it didn't kill it right away and it went down into the drop ceiling in our family room and was running around. Made me cry I had to leave the house till my husband came home from work and got it out. So far its filled my husbands work boots with dog food , stuffed it down the back of the couch and under the bookshelf. I just envision the poor little thing working all night carrying the food. I don't understand why the dogs never see or here it or bark at it. I think the traps not working cause its to well fed with dog food.  |
Good luck with the mouse! My mom's office has one they've been trying to catch for weeks now. 
I feel your pain, too. I had one once that I swore I had to fatten him up to catch him. He kept getting the peanut butter off the trigger without it catching him. Took me about a week to finally get him. Little bugger! |
I feel your pain too  but I'm sure glad it's your mouse and not MINE!!!! |
| Caught three mice so far.I wonder how many more there are |
| EEEEEEEK
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| Where there are 3 there are LOTS more. They breed every 2 weeks, and when they are only a few weeks old, too, so get moving! We moved to a century home and didn't see a mouse for 6 months, Then we saw one, then a few weeks later another one. By last spring we were seeing one almost every day, in every room of the house! We could hear them at nite running on the ceilings and in the walls. They were getting into everything...the dog food, the kitchen cupbords, the fireplace. Try going to put something in the garbage under the sink and have a mouse jump out at you, scared almost as much as you! It was driving me nuts...then we had to dig up some part of our weeping tiles, as the basement kept flooding, and we re-buried them with gravel and no more mice! (well, that and the dishes of poison we put everywhere!) Haven't seen one for months, now. Nor any telltale signs.
You need to find out where they are getting in and plug the hole but good! |
| The first winter I was in my house, about 13 years ago, I caught three in one night! Freaked me out!
My dad patiently explained to me that I was living in a rural area with woods & fields all around me and those little field mice were surprised & pleased to find a new warm house to come into! Thankfully, after that, there were no more for a long, long time!   |
| Oh no...dont tell me I'll have mice at my new place LOL
We had one in our house 10 years ago...freaked me right out...I was terrified to even go into the kitchen...I screamed SO loud that it took 2 days for the thing to come out of hiding and get caught by the humane trap. Hubby then drove it to the ritzy part of town
We have them here too now....but I have those sonic things that emmit a sound that rodents apparently dont like because all my neighbors have mice in their garages but not us. |
| having always lived in the country, I expected mice to move in in the fall. First of all, cats are great at keeping them under control but had a situation where the cats couldn't get in the places where the mice were and had to set traps to get them as they were driving me nuts at night running thru the attic area. I was able to trap them, but remember - if you use a trap - TIE A STRING between the trap and something that will not move, otherwise, if the mouse is not killed right away, it can make off with the trap and get into an area where you can't find it, then die. |
| Thats a good idea to tie a piece of string to the trap. I still hate killing them.
Taskers mom have I got a story for you.I'm a nurse also I've always worked on a Skilled nursing unit or geriatrics. At a hospital that I used to work at their was a mouse. We were in our break room and it ran across a coworkers foot. Maintanance men set live trap. Couldn;t catch it.It lived in the piano in our Activity room.One day I walked into one of our residents rooms. He was in isolation and I went in to do his am care after breakfast.There he was feeding the mouse throwing it crumbs.He was highly upset when they caught it. I felt sorry for the poor guy. He was in isolation for mrsa and very lonely.I had a nightmare one night I went in to do his care and the mouse popped his head out of his trach. Funny how your mind works.I know thats really sick but I really dreamed it.  |
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