New well, new construction, or replacing an outdated system with a properly sized submersible or jet pump — installed and tested before we leave.
Most of our installation work falls into three categories: a newly drilled well that needs its first pump, a home under construction where the well already exists but the pump system still needs to go in, and conversions — swapping an old above-ground jet pump for a submersible system, usually because the well is deeper than a jet pump can effectively lift from, or because the homeowner wants the pump out of a crawlspace or well house entirely.
Installation isn't just dropping a pump down the casing. We size the pump to the well's actual yield (gallons per minute the well can sustainably produce, not just what the pump is rated for), the static water level, the total dynamic head (depth plus friction loss plus pressure needed at the fixtures), and the household's peak demand. A pump that's undersized will run constantly and wear out early; one that's oversized for a low-yield well can pump it dry and cycle on empty, which damages the motor.
For most wells deeper than about 25 feet, a submersible pump is the standard choice — it pushes water rather than pulling it, which is far more efficient at depth and doesn't fight the physical limit jet pumps run into (roughly 25 feet of suction lift for a shallow-well jet pump, more like 100-120 feet for a deep-well two-line jet pump, and even that comes with an efficiency penalty). Jet pumps still make sense for shallow wells or specific site conditions where a submersible isn't practical. We'll walk through both options honestly rather than defaulting to whichever is more profitable to install. See our submersible vs. jet pump page for more detail on the tradeoffs.