With the holiday season officially here, now is not the time to worry about your water well or have water well troubles. Thanksgiving is particularly hard on water wells because there are a lot of “extras” in your home. King Water Wells explains below what these extras are and how they affect your household plumbing and the water well it draws from. Avoid added stress to your water well system by keeping these things in mind.
Water Well Stress Inducers
1. Extra Cooking
Preparing and cooking the Thanksgiving feast requires a lot of water. Between water as an ingredient to cleaning the turkey to washing the bowls and mixing tools, you will be using your kitchen faucet and sink nonstop. You’ll likely also be using your dishwasher more often. Plan to draw a lot more water out of your well during your busy Thanksgiving meal preparation.
2. Extra Cleaning
Using the dishwater more often isn’t the only extra cleaning you’ll be doing. If you have guests coming for the delicious feast, you’ll be cleaning bathrooms and washing your Thanksgiving and guest room linens, too. Extra cleaning also requires more water, and your water well and the pump need to be able to stand up to the demand brought on by added housework.
3. Extra People
If you think the demand on your water well system is going to be intense with the added chores, just wait until the guests arrive. Toilet usage, showers, even brushing teeth will be multiplied by how many people are coming and staying with you over the long weekend. Even if you don’t have people staying, the added guests on Thanksgiving day will increase toilet and bathroom sink usage.
4. Extra Dishes
We talked briefly about the extra dishes from preparing the meal; imagine how many dishes you’ll have to wash after the meal. If your guests are staying over the weekend, you’ll have added dishes at each meal, which means – you guessed it – added stress on your water well system. To reduce that stress, fill your dishwasher to its capacity to reduce loads.
5. Extra Laundry and Water Well Stress
Finally, linens, bedsheets, bath towels, and kitchen towels and washcloths will make you feel as if they’re multiplying in your laundry basket. When you have more people in your home you have more laundry; it’s that simple. Only wash full loads to reduce the stress on your water well, and you can also save money on your utility bills if you line-dry the loads.
Avoid Water Well Stress With King Water Wells
Call King Water Wells in Rockford, MI, now to schedule a water well inspection before Thanksgiving.