mjsnodgrass asked what pipe I used. Pic below

Geo-TH,In

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I had to buy the SS sleeve separately.

Got her done. Waiting for a new meter to be set.
 
Saw the other post where you got it installed. Just wanted to ask.

Did you place a tracer wire in the ditch so that the line could be easily located? And ribbon tape above the line so if someone was digging in the future would hit it before digging into the line?
 
I did put ribbon a foot below.
I'll let the trench will settle so it a no
brainier where the pipe is.
Besides I don't know anyone with a signal
tracer. Trench is about 45 ft long.
I tool a picture of the trench and I have
a photographic memory. LOL
 
When I ran electric to the shop at my parents house I painted a picture with dimensions on a small piece of plywood and mounted it above where the wire went through the basement wall. That was about 43 years ago.
 
Was just wondering.
It's a requirement here to place both ribbon and tracer wire in all non metal underground piping jobs.

You must call a line locating number before you dig and they will come out and locate lines for free. It protects both the digger and the underground utility companies.
 
811 doesn't mark my sewer line, satellite or the
water line I installed going to the house.

No biggie, I know where everything is including
my 103 year old abandoned septic tank and
drywell. I'll be doing the digging too.
 
(quoted from post at 14:15:49 05/24/23) 811 doesn't mark my sewer line, satellite or the
water line I installed going to the house.

No biggie, I know where everything is including
my 103 year old abandoned septic tank and
drywell. I'll be doing the digging too.


You going to be still digging 40 years from now??? Building codes are for eternity. Not for next year only.
 
(quoted from post at 18:32:53 05/24/23)
(quoted from post at 14:15:49 05/24/23) 811 doesn't mark my sewer line, satellite or the
water line I installed going to the house.

No biggie, I know where everything is including
my 103 year old abandoned septic tank and
drywell. I'll be doing the digging too.


You going to be still digging 40 years from now??? Building codes are for eternity. Not for next year only.
e isn't going to give a rat's patotie in 40 years....probably not you either!
 
(quoted from post at 08:24:05 05/25/23)
(quoted from post at 18:32:53 05/24/23)
(quoted from post at 14:15:49 05/24/23) 811 doesn't mark my sewer line, satellite or the
water line I installed going to the house.

No biggie, I know where everything is including
my 103 year old abandoned septic tank and
drywell. I'll be doing the digging too.


You going to be still digging 40 years from now??? Building codes are for eternity. Not for next year only.
e isn't going to give a rat's patotie in 40 years....probably not you either!


I think that there are still many people around who care about doing things correctly, and would prefer to know that a subsequent owner won't likely be commenting at the coffee shop about that old so and so who took all those short cuts.
 
Nobody locates abandon utilities. Ive seen enough stuff
come out of the ground I dont flinch until the phone
rings.
 
The local phone co is putting in fiber optic to several towns here and major feeder lines between towns.

What a mess. They aRe constantly hitting stuff. They took power out to the town for a few hours when they bored through an underground big boy electric junction box. It was marked, well obvious with stuff above ground. Many many other issues, but that one got some attention!

They have to do stand pipes along the highway road ditches ever few 100 feet. Junction boxes. Seems extremely excessive. They are really wrecking the road ditches, pulled the lines through with small cats, now driving through the road ditches (which are very wet) with small excavators and digging, digging, digging. The road ditches look like bare fields but too rough to plant, just a mess.

Im sure you did a lot better job!

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 15:53:55 05/24/23) Was just wondering.
It's a requirement here to place both ribbon and tracer wire in all non metal underground piping jobs.

You must call a line locating number before you dig and they will come out and locate lines for free. It protects both the digger and the underground utility companies.

That is a requirement here too (KS) EXCEPT they will not trace privately owned lines like well lines, sprinkler lines, etc. Had them out to trace utilities prior to doing sprinkler work and asked the tech to trace the 240 V line to my irrigation pump and the fee was going to be $100 until I traded him a box of brownies, then it was free. But if I buried my own pipe as george did I would use a tracer line for sure. No good reason not to.
 
When I bought my property, four years ago, there were abandon electric, telephone and water lines over about 3 acres of it. Seems the original owner was some sort of ham radio guy; remnents of antenna towers, etc.

Hired a "professional" outfit to trace all the lines. Cost me $700, and he didn't find more than 1/4 of them anywhere. Pretty useless. He couldn't even find those where the ends were available to attach the locator transmitter. "Professional" indeed.

The water lines to the barns were the most important, and I still don't know exactly where they are. Plastic and NO tracer wire. Insulated wire of any type could be used, as long as there are no splices underground.

Well worth the little effort to place in the trench along with the piping, even though you are the only one that will be digging in the yard. To heck with anyone following you in the future; that will be their problem to find your pipes.
 
Easiest way I've found to locate water lines is a post hole digger when I don't want to find them. I'm sure
to hit one then.
 

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