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Emergency Well & Pump Repair
Out here, a dead well is not an inconvenience. It is a house without water and a pasture full of cattle with none. When that happens, you need someone who answers the phone, tells you when they will be there, and shows up with the truck that can fix it.
Call 806-334-0785. Applewhite Water Well prioritizes no-water calls across our service area, and livestock emergencies go to the front of the line.
What You Get With Applewhite
Straight scheduling
We tell you honestly when we can be there. No string-alongs while your tank runs dry.
Stocked truck
Common pumps, switches, tanks, and fittings ride with us, so most emergencies end in one trip.
Livestock first
Cattle out of water in summer heat is a life-and-death clock. Those calls get moved to the front.
All systems
Submersibles, pressure systems, windmills, and solar. Whatever quit, we work on it.
How the Job Goes
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Call and describe it
What the water did, what you heard, what the breaker looks like. Two minutes on the phone often cuts an hour on site.
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Triage
We slot the call by urgency. No household water and stock outages lead the queue.
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Diagnose and price
On site we test, find it, and give you the number before repair work starts.
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Water on
We stay until water flows, and we tell you what caused it so it does not repeat.
While you wait: what helps and what hurts
Helps: checking the breaker once, noting the pressure gauge reading, and clearing access to the well house so we can back the truck in. If you have storage, close the trough valves and save the water in the tank for the house.
Hurts: cycling the breaker over and over on a pump that trips, and running a generator into wiring you are not sure of. A shorted motor gets more expensive with each reset.
Emergency stock water
If cattle are already short, act on that before the repair truck arrives. Move the herd to a watered pasture if you have one. In summer heat, cattle need water in hours, not days. Tell us the situation when you call, because it changes how we prioritize the run.
The five failures behind most outages
Years of emergency calls sort into a short list. One: electrical, from tripped breakers to shorted motors, the most common and sometimes the cheapest. Two: pressure system failures, where a tank or switch dies and takes water pressure with it. Three: the pump itself, worn out or sand-cut. Four: frozen or burst plumbing in winter. Five: the water level dropping below the pump, which looks exactly like a dead pump until you measure.
The reason we test before we pull is that numbers one, two, and five do not require pulling the well at all. Half the drama of a no-water morning is not knowing which failure you have. Our job is to know within the hour.
How emergency pricing works here
Simple: the same way regular pricing works. We diagnose, we tell you the number, you decide, we fix it. Urgency changes the schedule, not the honesty. Nobody standing in a dry well house at 7 AM should have to negotiate against a crisis, so we do not put people in that position.
You will also get told what the failure was and what, if anything, would have prevented it. Some outages are pure bad luck. Most are not, and knowing the difference is worth as much as the repair.
Freezes and heat waves make the emergencies
Our emergency calls cluster in hard freezes, when unprotected pressure systems burst, and in July heat, when tired pumps die under peak load. Both are largely preventable: an insulated well house for winter and a spring checkup before summer. The maintenance visit is always cheaper than the emergency one.
If you are reading this page with water still flowing, take the hint the easy way. Book the checkup in the calm season, and this page stays a page you never need.
Who shows up
Matthew Applewhite, Owner & Operator
When you call Applewhite Water Well, you get Matthew. He answers the phone, walks your property, quotes the job, and does the work. He holds an active Texas Water Well Driller and Pump Installer license (#61162) with the Master Water Well Pump Installer designation, verified with TDLR. Insured, and based in Wheeler.
- Same person from first call to finished well
- decades of hands-on well work in the eastern Texas Panhandle
- Serving ranches and rural homes across 12 Panhandle communities
- Written estimates before work begins, every time
Emergency Repair Questions, Answered
Do you answer emergency calls on weekends?
Call 806-334-0785 any time water is down. We respond as fast as the schedule and daylight allow, and livestock outages get priority.
How fast can you get to my well?
Depends on where you are and what is ahead of you in the queue. We give you a real window when you call, and we keep you posted if it moves.
What should I check before calling?
The breaker, once. The pressure gauge. Whether any faucet anywhere flows. Report what you find; it speeds everything up.
Is an emergency call more expensive?
You pay for the work the repair needs, quoted before we start, same as any job. Urgent scheduling does not change our honesty about the number.
My pipes froze. Is that a well problem?
Sometimes it is the well house plumbing, sometimes the lines to the house. We find the break either way, and we will talk about insulation so next winter passes quietly.
Can you bring water for livestock?
We are a well outfit, not a hauler, but we prioritize stock outages precisely so it never gets to that point. Call early rather than late.
The well quit during a storm. Should I wait to call?
Call as soon as you know it is down. Even if weather delays the truck, your call holds a place in the queue, and we can often diagnose enough by phone to shorten the visit when we arrive.
Can anything be done to keep this from happening again?
Almost always. Most emergencies trace back to a skipped checkup, a tired tank, or missing freeze protection. After the repair we will tell you exactly which one bit you and what preventing the rerun costs.
My neighbor is on the same aquifer and has water. Why don’t I?
Wells are individual: different depths, pumps, and equipment ages. A neighbor with water usually rules out a regional problem and points the diagnosis at your equipment, which is genuinely useful information to share when you call.
Emergency Repair Across the Eastern Texas Panhandle
We serve every community below from our shop in Wheeler. Pick your town for local details, or call and tell us where the gate is.
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