No real easy fix, going to take a backhoe, 55 feet of copper line, removing a section of concrete and having it repoured later(included in city permit price). Have to hook new line up to the existing one and pull it through 48 feet underground.
Existing line is galvanized, they can take it If hindsight were foresight... Had I known, which I should have, the water would be shut off this morning I would have filled the bathtub before leaving for work. Could have at least flushed the toilet when the dirty deed arises rather than having to drive 15 minutes to my brothers.
I'm really curious to see what water pressure is like after replaced. I never noticed a significant pressure drop from before noticing all the discharge and pump running frequently.
Any chance to go poly pipe? Copper can react to stuff in soil and get corrosion and leak. Especially if touching concrete. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
Here, they don't even bother digging the old. 811 to mark utilities, a huge trencher and pex. If needed, repour a segment of sidewalk or drive.
This is the simplest way IMO, they still have to dig down to get to meter hook up and if all goes well, they just chain up to existing pipe, connect new to old inside the house and use the boom on the backhoe to coax it out. Not a whole lot of grading to be done, city takes care of the sidewalk. I watched it done at another place years ago, sans sidewalk. One of the estimates I was wanting has not called me back, if I don't hear from him by first estimate tomorrow(10am) he's out. He was going to quote me boring and sleeving. Basically go from inside at basement, run a boring bit on sections of sleeve over existing line then pull old line out and put new line through sleeve and done. No digging needed, sleeve stays in place so if it ever ruptures again, undo the fittings, pull out old and put in new. He said it wouldn't be much more than digging old out, but heard boring is expensive so he may be expensive either way.
I did not ask, figured these guys know what's best for each scenario. Should be the last time I ever have to worry about it here regardless.
Ya know i usually don't care because doesn't bother me what other ppl do at work but this dude that supposed to work nights with me has called in like 5 gd days since the beginning of the year. We've only had 9 works days anyway. And has left me with pile or work I gotta do thats my own stuff on top of his. Not that that's any different cause he sits out in parking lot in car all night anyway. But sob gets old. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
I've always said, you wanna shirk or procrastinate and eventually F yourself over, go ahead, it's your choice. But the minute you force someone else have to work harder to make up for your laziness, you're a thief. You are stealing that man's time, and there ain't nothing more valuable than time. ****************** React accordingly.
I just installed water at my home and definitely did not use copper. I didn't think people used that anymore. I used a poly inside of another poly then in a bed of stone then filled it back in with the Mini. From house to meter 168ft and all items inside to transfer from well and it was under 2k. In Venatione Veritas
I'm going to be so, so very good here, give me a second I need the blue stream to clear to see the key board... &&&-+/ . ®®||*¡£ £ ¡** %*\¢¢®®%¡<>|......to having to hear the giant C word woman's name for the next two years. Dear God, where is that well placed lightening bolt she deserves?
It is usually required by code to have metallic water piping bonded to your house electrical grounding system. When I lived in the city and replaced my entire plumbing system with PVC, I bonded the water pipe right where it entered the basement. I also ran a jumper across the meter so it was still grounded with the meter removed. If there is no metal in your water plumbing system then there is no sense in grounding it.
