2300' water line install

[joeu235]

Finally installed 2300 foot water line to our barndominium. Its been such a wet spring the ground was finally dry enough. Not a moment to spare as we moved in the next day

 

[Deere Dude]

Great job, but am wondering what the couple small leaks were and the pressure involved. Thanks for the video.

 

[TnAndy]

Getting water is often a real chore, huh ?

Ours is a spring 1000' up the mountain (horizontally...about 60' vertical rise). Had to build a spring box, then put in collection tank, then we tried to Ditch Witch the line.....way too many rocks (fortunately, the would come out...not solid) so I bought an ancient International backhoe, and dug the ditch. We ran glue together 20' bell end joints of 1" PVC and slid 100' at a time inside 4" black corregated to hopefully keep rocks from damaging the PVC. This was in 1983...and it's held ever since...so maybe that was a good idea.

 

[joeu235]

Great job, but am wondering what the couple small leaks were and the pressure involved. Thanks for the video.

Pressure at the meter was 60 psi

Two small leaks were in the two big T's in the NPT threads. I should have used more teflon tape or pipe dope instead.

 

[justinramani]

Great thread. We had a **** of a time on our 1500 ft run. Ended up doing 2" bell end. If I had it to do over again I would go with HDPE.

 

[oosik]

My spring is about 30 feet lower than the house and around 100 feet away. I ran the inch and a half plastic water line inside 4" heavy wall plastic pipe. That was 38 years ago and it's still going strong.

 

[mwayne]

Did you price and or study the feasibility of using HDPE pipe? Buying that much the supply house should let you borrow the fusion tool so you wouldn't have to have splices. Wouldn't have hurt to have sleeved the run under your driveway. Thanks for the video.

 

[EddieWalker]

Pressure at the meter was 60 psi

Fun video. Nice to see the whole family helping out!!!

What is your water pressure at the house?

 

[D2Cat]

Looks like one of the benefits of being in Texas is not much depth of bury required. Looks like about 15", so it make for fast digging.

 

[joeu235]

Looks like one of the benefits of being in Texas is not much depth of bury required. Looks like about 15", so it make for fast digging.

The ground never freezes. Just needs to be deep enough to avoid damage. I put it in 2 feet deep where it crossed my hay pasture just to make sure I don't some day tear it up with a chisel plow.

 

[snymat68]

Cool video. That's a lot of pipe!

 

[joeu235]

Did you price and or study the feasibility of using HDPE pipe? Buying that much the supply house should let you borrow the fusion tool so you wouldn't have to have splices. Wouldn't have hurt to have sleeved the run under your driveway. Thanks for the video.

Once I figured out the supply house was helpful, I just went with whatever they recommended.

Yeah, I probably should have put the pipe under the road in some 3 steel pipe I have laying around. I値l see if it ever becomes an issue.

 

[hawkeye08]

One of my daughters and SIL are developing property they bought.. last year, they brought in power and got the well put in.. Foundation went in recently so they are on the way..

The well has 60+ gallons per minute using air test (that's the good news), but it is 720' deep. They are way over budget on well and will be stretched on putting pump in. I can't say they will be over budget on pump since they redid the budget once the well was drilled. They might haul water for a year, they highest priority is getting the house up before weather stops in the fall.

The local water district would connect them for $80k, which was not feasible, but they will end up over half that..

 

[justinramani]

Geez - and I am complaining that our county increased water taps from $800 to $1800. Sure beats $40k!!!

 

[s219]

Nice job -- I'll remember this the next time I grumble about trenching 100-200'.

About those leaks -- through many plumbing projects I have come to hate threaded fittings. They are just not as bullet proof as I'd like. A problem I find in recent years is that the threads aren't cut perfectly sometimes and/or they are not protected well in shipping/handling. It doesn't take but a ding or knick, or slight deformation to contribute to a leak. I avoid threaded connections as much as possible.