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outcaststudios
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 Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:53 pm Post subject: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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i have a boiling spring thats developed over the past five years, its about forty feet away from the original spring that has been running since at least 1865. that spring puts out about 5 gallons a minute and the new spring is about 3- gallons per minute. i have hydraulic cement and wanted to use the granite i have on hand for the base, i have gravel as well. what i want to know is what is the best approach to building the base. how to dig down around the spring etc..any one with first hand knowledge here? thanks!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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Lucky you, we have a springs 'up the road' , No help really, hope the knowledge isn't lost we the old timers,, for the structure I'd use Cedar  Cheers,Mike
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:40 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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check out the old "Foxfire " books.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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There was a spring on the riverbank 15 minutes east of the city I grew up in. Someone had driven a pipe into it and it ran cold clear delicious water all year around. Dad used to take us out there every Sunday afternoon and we would fill up several jugs for drinking and cooking water.
I stopped by there about 15 years ago to show our kids and tell them the story. The pipe was still there, water was still running out but it was brown and putrid! There is a whole subdivision of high end acreages on the hill above now. I expect that pipe is now the sewer outlet for a whole bunch of septic systems.
Hopefully your spring does not suffer the same fate.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:55 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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  Ewwwww ,, that sux Merv,, all our springs run cold & Clear , Drinkable like u said, some flow like Creeks, some just cold boiling quick sand, 
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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Hope this pic helps?
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one of our Springs
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outcaststudios
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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yes, those are all over sothern chester county and bucks county, really cool structures. Our spring house is just a cover for the actual water, a small cedar roof and a cement basin with an overflow pipe. its been that way for over 150 years. im going to copy that design and keep it simple. my plan is to dig around the perimeter of the source and pour concrete into the channles i dug, once its set i can excavate the center and dump gravel and stone in for the floor, then just build up the sides with gravel and build a roof, shoudl be fairly straight forward. my spring provides the drinking water for all the local businesses that had their water supply polluted by an old gas station that was in the center of town, tanks underground leaked before anyone knew. back when they got rid of the oil from an oil change by pouring it into a hole in the ground. so this is a huge relief for the town as well since there is a backup source now. thanks for the replies guys! ill update this when i start the build.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:53 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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hey Mike is that from the Readers Digest book?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:53 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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U betcha,, got a lot of old Mother Earth News too 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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OP said "boiling spring" so I was thing hot tub with a constant overflow...
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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No not hot water, but they look like boiling water,, But it's fricking ice cold , I got into my wet suit once and jumped in a boiling spring w/flippers could not touch bottom 
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:20 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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I hope Neslie's don't find ours
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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I checked tonight, Book 4 of the series is what you want to look at. There is also a how to make wood water pipes to feed a spring to a well house.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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Wood Plumbing that's some "Flintstone Enginuity" right their
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:28 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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| madmike wrote: |
| Wood Plumbing that's some "Flintstone Enginuity" right their |
Don't laugh too hard.
I had a house in Wa. 2005. The driveway/road to the house had a creek crossing under it.
The culvert pipe was.....Wooden. That was the first and only time in my life I had seen wooden pipe. I heard many a pipe fitters at work talk about it.
I just was floored at seeing it under my driveway.
The pipe looked like hollowed out 12" Cedar, with heavy gauge wire wrapped around the outside for strength.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 1:52 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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We dug up a wooden pipe at a house we had 50 years ago, same as you describe with the 2 1/2s of C profile Cedar, only ours was only ~3" ID.
Wooden culverts were very common many years ago, built just like a barrel with angled staves and steel bands, usually all soaked and covered in Creosote and tar, we had one under the driveway at the road ditch when I was little, so did all the neighbors.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Has anyone here ever built their own springhouse? |
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The one I found wasn't any modern pressurised system, more like a stream diversion to a neighboring location somewhere. None of the elder locals could remember anything about it. The area had been inhabited ~ 100 years by the time I found it, that's not at all old compared to some places, but it was damn near dinosaur age for our area.
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