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Soil/Sediment build up in Mains Water!
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 01:39:11 GMT, (Roly) wrote:
| Once the pipe was fixed, the filter never again trapped any significant
| amount of muck.
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|I should have added that the pipe was replaced by only digging up two
|small bits of the drive. The job was done while I was out, so I didn't
|see how they did it, but they dug a small hole near the stop cock in the
|pavement and a small hole where the water pipe enters the house, but the
|forty feet or so between those two points wasn't disturbed.
I watched the gas people installing a new gas mail using the same technique
for our house. Dig two small holes. Put a mole, (a long thin, air
powered, thing which goes bang bang, bang), heading in the right direction
in one, drilling a tunnel between the two holes. Draw a plastic pipe after
it.
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