EcoRenovator - View Single Post - Whats your soil like that want geothermal or wells

Elcam84 · 09-12-17, 11:14 AM

I was planning on geo thermal here until we decided to move. Our soil is sand sand and just enough silt in it that in the summer when it gets really hot and dry it gets as hard as concrete.

Here water wells are running around $25 a foot and you have to go down 200+ for good water. Have heard of allot in the 400'+ range these days as well. So with the price of well drilling geothermal is quite expensive. In fact I found a well drilling truck for sale a while back... Would be cheaper to buy the truck drill what you need. Kind of like gutters here, I can buy the machine for less than having it done.

But interested in what you have in mind.

09-12-17, 11:14 AM	#6
Elcam84 Apprentice EcoRenovator Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: TX Posts: 275 Thanks: 2 Thanked 31 Times in 24 Posts	I was planning on geo thermal here until we decided to move. Our soil is sand sand and just enough silt in it that in the summer when it gets really hot and dry it gets as hard as concrete. Here water wells are running around $25 a foot and you have to go down 200+ for good water. Have heard of allot in the 400'+ range these days as well. So with the price of well drilling geothermal is quite expensive. In fact I found a well drilling truck for sale a while back... Would be cheaper to buy the truck drill what you need. Kind of like gutters here, I can buy the machine for less than having it done. But interested in what you have in mind.