" Does this make sense? What am I missing? Thanks.

I've tried the bullet down the well pipe and it never worked for me. The
only thing that ever worked was to pull the old pipe and drive down a new
point and pipe. However, once, I had to abandon the old pipe as it couldn't
be pulled and drive a new point and pipe a foot or so away. My present well
has an original pipe sticking out of the ground about two foot from the
present pipe. The best but not cheapest solution is to have a well driller
come in and put in a new well outside the foundation according to code with
a submersible pump. I suspect that to drive a new well, you would have to
do the work yourself. Around here, you can't have a well in the basement
and can't fix one if it goes bad. Have to bring it up to code. In fact you
can't sell a house with inside well, if the new owner has to get a bank
mortgage as the lender will require a new well before loaning money.