On May 29, 6:01*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
Anyone know why this is? *Doesn't make sense, to me.

Christopher A. Young
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"George" wrote in message

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Rigid is not approved for underground as far as I know. Could be wrong
- but I'd be wanting the flexible myself.

Me too, our water supplier only accepts type K soft tubing.

I checked our codes. Type M copper is allowed for underground usage.
Not sure why they don't stop at L, but M is definitely allowed for
outdoor plumbing.

The frost line here is 12". And it would be one severe and hellish
winter to actually freeze the ground that deep. Typically we don't get
enough below freezing weather go freeze the ground past two or three
inches, and even that is unusual.

Guess it's time to bite the bullet and replace the pipe. I got to
thinking, what would I do if I found a leak? You don't just unscrew a
fitting and screw a new one on. When fifty feet of pipe come together,
how do you replace a tee, for example? You can't screw the pipe in,
the pipe won't rotate. it's still buried in the ground and goes off to
Gosh knows where, you are not going to rotate the pipe to screw it
into the fitting.

I can't use a compression fitting, the pipe is too old and pitted.
Severely pitted, it would be very difficult to clean it up to the
point a compression fitting would hold.

So today's task: Finish digging up the straight shot from meter to
house. Replace it with a nice new shiny copper pipe. End of leak.

Fortunately, I re-plumbed 80% of my house with copper last year, so I
still have solder and two propane torches, left over pipe and
fittings, flux, all that good stuff. And I (almost) know how to solder
copper together. If I had done this in the first place instead of
digging up pipe, I would be done by now.

PS: The previous owner of the house buried some 4" (or so) pipe for
rain gutter drainage. Why, oh why, did the genius put it right above
the water pipe? Do you know what it is like to dig up 3/4 water pipe
that has 4" plastic pipe on top of it? I lost my motivation to keep
digging at that point.....Note to self... NEVER put drainage pipe
above water pipe - THINK about what is going to happen when you have
to dig up the stuff you are burying in the ground.