posted 3 weeks ago
Do you have room in the house for a systems room of some sort? Like an internal closet?
We had a super insulated pump room on the exterior of our basement free house, but it needed an electric heater to keep the pump room warm. An internal closet (probably needs about 2 ftĂ—2 ft of floor space) would be better if you keep your house continually warm.
I currently have a shallow, surface well about 200 ft horizontally, and with the intake maybe 30 ft downslope from my house, so I have a jet pump, although mine requires 240V.
If you expect to drink the water, I'd try to make any pump room/house large enough for water treatment equipment to be installed in the future, like filters and UV. My water treatment to get my surface water potable takes far more space and energy than my pump!
Edit : I just have a standard pressure tank, mine is ludicrously small, I believe 5 gal. If I were designing my system new, esp using solar power, I'd chose a large pressure tank. Part of my water treatment systems is an under sink RO that works on the water pressure, and has another maybe 5 gal pressure tank. It would be nice to have more water available without running the pump. My exterior tap for watering my garden bypasses the pressure tank and filters.