Pump House 2.0

We have a well in our backyard, right next to the shed, and there is a pump in it. Actually, there is a 7 feet deep squared hole with an ancient electric pump, and in the bottom of that hole there is another hole, 3 feet wide, under which the water is (this was a very grammatically complicated sentence for me... I'm exhausted.)

On top of the squared hole there was a construction that covered it and that looked like a huge dog house. It wasn't so bad, except that it was as old as the house, and it was rotting. When you opened the door of the pump house, you could see spider webs and earwigs everywhere. Nasty.

So, we decided to tear the dang thing down, and replace it with some kind of cover, and maybe put flowers pots on top of it, so it would look decent. Actually, most of the garbage we had the other day was from the pump house.









We tried to cover it the best we could, but we are not experts at this, so we tried to build a couple of cover doors out of 2X8's, which we thought would be strong enough to put stuff on top of it, and then attach it with hinges to the concrete. That part was harder than we thought: we bought special drill bits for concrete, but they didn't go very far deep; so the bolts are there, attaching the hinges, but they are not very stable. Anyway, the thing is there not, and it's steady enough for now, and at least it looks alright.