Well pump repair in Pembroke

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Town water, or your own well?

Pembroke itself is served by the Robeson County water system, which also covers Red Springs, St. Pauls, Fairmont and Maxton. In town, and on the university side, most addresses are on that system.

The wells are the rural addresses spread around the town, and there are a lot of them. Pembroke has about 2,800 people living in it and is the centre of a community far larger than that, most of it living out in the county.

The quickest way to tell which you are: if there is a pressure tank and a pump somewhere on the property, in a well house, a crawl space, a garage or a utility room, you are on a well, and the bill you pay is for electricity rather than water.

What gets called in

• No water at all. Usually the pump, sometimes the pressure switch, occasionally the well itself.
• Pressure that falls away after a minute of running, which often means the pressure tank rather than the pump and is the cheaper repair.
• Air spitting from the taps, which can mean the water level has dropped below the pump intake.
• Staining and smells. This is iron and sulfur country. What iron and sulfur do to a house, written for Red Springs but true across this side of the county.
• Testing after high water. What to do if your well flooded.

Before you buy a place out here

If you are buying a house on a well around Pembroke, the lender will want a water test and there is a deadline attached to it. What FHA, VA and USDA actually require, and what happens when the first result comes back positive.

And what the work costs, including why a new well is cheaper in this county than in most of North Carolina.