Any ideas on outside water faucets.

Irv

Make sure you use form a gasket on all connections and two hose clamps. This is just a preventative measure. (I never had a leak by doing it this way.)

Bury it deeper than your deepest frost line (There is a chart that gives a reccomended depth- call your counties extension agent if you can't find it elsewhere or nobody knows.) Use a frost free hydrent. A trick is to screw a short piece of pipe into the drain and connect it to a short piece of drainage tile, this will give the water a quick way to get away from the hydrent, as well as to not erode the dirt around the hydrent( I have seen shop floors crack and sink twards a hydrent, due to the hydrent drain washing the dirt out from underneath)

I would be worried about running a power line down the same trench as a water line for one main reason.. If someone in the future goes and digs up the line to find a leak, he may unknowingly hit the electric line. This also goes for a gas line.

Last year, we rented a ditchwitch to dig a bunch of of 24" deep trenches, buried around 1000 feet of pipe and installed 15 hydrant valves.

We used hydrant valves because we can leave the outside water on year around without fear of freezing. Just remember that hydrant valves must be all on or all off. If you try to adjust flow with them, they will leak a stream of water from the "drain" hole. We lost gallons of water before we figured this out.

With respect to pipe, we used both PVC and black poly. Beware of black poly as it comes in a number of different weights. We used the 200 PSI stuff which has pretty thick walls. In areas where squirrels and other burrowing creatures are a problem, we used PVC. Conventional wisdom in this area is that these creatures will attack black poly, but tend to leave PVC alone. So far, we have not had a problem.

Another suggestion is to bury 110 wire with your pipe. We did this and put an outlet on every hydrant valve. Be sure to usee GFCI outlets. We useda length of gray PCV pipe into a plastic outside box. We fastened this to the back side of teh hydrant valve in three places with regular hose clamps. It is really nice to have power for teh weed whacker or for other power tools scattered through the yard. The burial wire was pretty cheap and its installation in an exitsting trench took very little extra time. Cost for each outlet was about $15 for the pipe, box, cover and 20amp GFCI outlet.

Good luck on your project.

JohnP

JohnP

--->Paul