Running Well Water Line in 2" Conduit

[dickfoster]

What??? That makes no sense.

He's just saying that anything no matter how strong it is can be broken.

 

[kcflhrc]

What??? That makes no sense.

Why is that?

 

[Billrog]

Run a 2" conduit down each side of a 2' ditch & you can pull the pipe and wire through them. Conduit for a wire could be beneficial but i would just bury the water line ( 1" pex is adequate ) .

 

[Pettrix]

This violates just about every code out there for the simple reason water conducts electricity. Do not do this.

You need to dig two trenches and run power and water in separate tranches. There is even a distance apart from each other that they need to be, but I forget what that is off hand. Two feet apart is probably good.

It is also a bad idea to run a water line inside a bigger pipe because of the movement of the water carrying pipe inside the conduit. This will lead to early failure.

Some times it's OK to save a buck, but for utilities buried in the ground, spend what it takes to do it the best way possible.

Out here they do that ALL the time and code officials are perfectly OK with it. They actually allow you to drop PEX and the power wire directly into a trench, no conduit, sitting on top of each other.

Why is it dangerous?

If you think about it, the well pump wire is sitting inside a well with a 100+ feet of water surrounding it.

The movement of the PEX is almost non-existant. PEX sits inside floor slabs and inside walls, near live power wires. No code violations.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Run a 2" conduit down each side of a 2' ditch & you can pull the pipe and wire through them. Conduit for a wire could be beneficial but i would just bury the water line ( 1" pex is adequate ) .

This. Dig it once, but run them separately. You'll be glad you did.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I don't think you would ever get that pulled in.

I have given up on the 4" Big O. It just doesn't last. Last job I did here, I used 3" thin wall super duct that comes in ten foot sections. Went around five hundred feet for some lighting.

I'm curious what the reason for the conduit is. Protection or some notion of easy future replacement?

 

[roadhunter]

Why is that?

Recommending sch 40 because you had seen sch 80 break. That makes no sense. "The heavy duty stuff broke so here try this light duty stuff"

 

[s219]

Recommending sch 40 because you had seen sch 80 break. That makes no sense. "The heavy duty stuff broke so here try this light duty stuff"

Made sense to me. He was comparing to black plastic flex pipe and saying that sch 40 would be better, but he's even seen sch 80 break. Reread the series of posts and it will make sense to you.

 

[kcflhrc]

Recommending sch 40 because you had seen sch 80 break. That makes no sense. "The heavy duty stuff broke so here try this light duty stuff"

You obviously didn't understand my post or I wasn't clear. All I said was I have seen schedule 80 collapse and I recommended to him schedule 40. But what ever.

 

[kcflhrc]

Made sense to me. He was comparing to black plastic flex pipe and saying that sch 40 would be better, but he's even seen sch 80 break. Reread the series of posts and it will make sense to you.

Thank you, I thought I was in the twilight zone there for a minute