My house is pretty new, but has some pretty complicated plumbing. So, there's all the more reason to not touch it. I've only needed an immediate plumber once and that was a problem down at the pump house. A regulator died, as I recall.
I have an artesian well with high pressure output (sometimes, it depends on the water table but it has constant pressure) and that has to be regulated or it'd blow my plumbing to shit. A few days after it rains, it has enough pressure to blow faucets off their fixtures. (If you don't know what an artesian well is, it basically means I'm hooked right into a shitton of water under pressure.)
So, that's why I have a pump house. It doesn't really pump water so much as it regulates the natural water flow. There's usually enough pressure to not need any additional pumping.
I used to live in a house that had a well constantly running water in the basement.
I have all that shit down the hill, in a concrete block building. Concrete block doesn't mind the humidity and that it's constantly damp or even wet in there. It drains off into a ditch when it has too much pressure. I don't pay it much attention.
You probably dont need to pay it attention until the regulator goes bad
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