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Originally Posted by id10t

25 year no maintenance/issues other than needing to replave one of the upper pipes, and then a replacement of my pressure tank. Neither was expensive

You do need to watch for freezing weather, and depending on your local water you may need a softener or other treatment system

(my well is into the aquifer not too far from the place where pepsi sucks it all out to sell. And seeing someones well pipe coming from the ceiling when you are hundreds of feet back in a cave system is kinda giggle inducing)

Our water is hard-ish, but not rock hard. We bought this place in Dec, and then the following Feb the area had the hardest, coldest freeze with snow in decades. We did have the pipe crack just before the pressure tank. I had a halogen work light in the pump house for heat, but I think the rolling blackouts got us since the first was 2 hours. I fixed the pipe, put a hotwire on it, and then insulated the pipe with 2 types of insulation. We've had temps down to the high teens every years since with no freeze issues.