Our New Home: May 9 - More Well Drilling

Hey, it's Christine. For those of you that don't know me I am married to the love of my life, Kent and we have three beautiful daughters, two that still live at home. Sierra is 16 and JoAnne is 5. Last year we started the paperwork to build our new home. We are finally ready to move some dirt! It's been a long rocky road up to this point and we are so ready to start the construction. I love working with everyone at Newrock! They have been great. Eric had to deal with me from day one! He had great suggestions and was a huge help while I changed the floor plan all around. Lisa did an awesome job with the floor plan and making all the little changes I asked for. Clint bombarded me with a ton of options and had to deal with my indecisiveness. He constantly keeps me updated on what is going on! I am one of those people that needs to know what is happening even if nothing is happening! I decided to keep this blog so my husband can keep up with what is going on during the construction while he is currently working in Afghanistan and for my friends and family. Hope you guys like it!

Okay, it was so rude of me not to list the one person who put us in touch with Newrock and who volunteered to hold my hand through this whole process - my husbands good friend and realtor - Randy Peck! Randy has been "holding my hand" from day one, always answers my calls and if for some reason he doesn't know the answer to one of my million questions, he finds out for me. Thanks again Randy for always being there (oh, I'm still waiting for our dinner date.)

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

May 9 - More Well Drilling

First, I just want to say those well drillers are quick. They had the new permit and were moving to the new location first thing Monday morning. So as of tonight we are at 200' with a little water. Now I don't know much about well drilling but these guys are schooling me! Your ideal rate is 12 gallons per minute - we are at about 4.5 - 5 gallons per minute. Which means the water pressure in the house will be just fine but if you want to wash your car, water the lawn or fill up a kids pool - it's going to take a while! Also, a bank will not fund your loan if you are not at 5 gallons per minute. So it looks like we will be drilling a little more today. I'm not sure how we are between two houses that have wells at 145' and 160' and we are at 200+'. This is the wettest place I've ever been and it has rained so much in the last two years you would think there would be water right under the surface! :) I let the guys know I probably wouldn't be up today because I think I'm bad luck! Hopefully, I will get a call this morning saying they hit 12 gallons per minute at 220' or even 240'. Fingers crossed everyone!

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