600' water line suggestions

[ovrszd]

I think they go overboard on anticipated usage too, but understandable. They don't want complaints.

While under normal average circumstances 1-2 gpm may be plenty.....

Imagine the wife has a load of laundry going, a load of dishes going, wife is in the shower, I'm outside watering the garden, and one of the kids flushes a toilet.

I can easily see how the demand....on ocassion, can call.for alot of gpm. And pipe too small....that means big pressure loss.

With all that going on the delivery pipe size will be irrelevant, the meter won't allow that rate of flow.

 

[LD1]

They are going with the 2" PVC with the slip joints/o-rings.

It's what the water company prefers. And they will tie it to the meter for them and if they use something else....they may not do that for him as a courtesy.

And the big plus....it's only $11 per 20' stick. So $0.55/ft

All the big black poly pushes $2 per fr

 

[LouNY]

Glad that it's all working out for them.
I don't know what the "inspectors" might look for but, doing 600' of trench for water if its going down to 4 or 5 feet burial depth have they considered laying a couple of conduits in the same ditch maybe after a foot of fill, one for line voltage and one for low voltage? yard light at the driveway entrance and maybe a camera or mailbox monitor?
Might be nice to do when a ditch is open

 

[ovrszd]

They are going with the 2" PVC with the slip joints/o-rings.

It's what the water company prefers. And they will tie it to the meter for them and if they use something else....they may not do that for him as a courtesy.

And the big plus....it's only $11 per 20' stick. So $0.55/ft

All the big black poly pushes $2 per fr

Good stuff. That's a no brainer. At that cost savings it doesn't matter how big the pipe is. :thumbsup:

 

[JRobyn]

The one thing you want to try to be sure of - don't let the contractor just haphazardly shove whatever trench spoils there are back in as backfill. Any sizable chunks of rock should be held away from the pipe to avoid a sharp rock point from eventually fretting it's way through the pipe, making a leak. The pipe WILL move!. Ideally, you backfill a few inches above and below the pipe with sand.

 

[Redlands Okie]

The one thing you want to try to be sure of - don't let the contractor just haphazardly shove whatever trench spoils there are back in as backfill. Any sizable chunks of rock should be held away from the pipe to avoid a sharp rock point from eventually fretting it's way through the pipe, making a leak. The pipe WILL move!. Ideally, you backfill a few inches above and below the pipe with sand.

Very true. That’s why the pipe. Has slip joints every 20 feet.