On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 10:05:50 AM UTC-4, -MIKE- wrote:
On 6/1/18 4:39 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 6/1/18 3:56 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
I'm getting ready to build a "Florida Room" on the back of our house.
I'm clearing out some bushes and plants to make way for the addition.
I found a 1.5" sch.40 PVC pipe running straight away from the house,
next to the driveway pad, in between the pad and where all the
vegetation was planted.
On the far end out near the vegetation, was a PVC threaded end cap
with a pipe-thread adapter and a pneumatic male coupler tool
connector.Â* The nipple hole of the coupler had been sealed with what I
think is pipe solder.Â* I drilled it out and it had the same consistency.
I sent a plumbing snake up the pipe towards the house and it hits
right near the foundation, but not any further in.
Any ideas what this was used for?Â* First thing I thought was some sort
of hand watering quick connect.Â* But why 1.5" sch.40?
By the way, the inside of the pipe was bone cry and fairly clean.
Weird.
I dug it up at the foundation of the house and it has a 90° elbow coming
straight up, with a dry-fit cap, just a couple inches under the soil.
Mystery to me why it was put there, but here's the funny part.
I need to run electric out to my Sharn and am dreading having to get it
past the concrete driveway.Â* The path of this pipe isn't the spot I
wanted to go, but since it's already under the patio pad, I might use
it.Â*Â* :-)
Funnier part... finding this pipe under the pad distracted me so much
that I forgot that I had already figured all this out. :-)
I can't use that path because it I would have to take a hard right turn
and then another left to go around the end of the septic system's leach
field. I don't like the prospect of pulling #6 through those bends on a
100'+ run.
Would you have to pull through the bends in one pull? Could you do it in sections before you
glue(?) the connections? That's how I did the power and cable (TV) out to my shed.
Pull it through a bend into the open air, then slip on a length of straight pipe, twist to glue,
wash, rinse, repeat until the destination is reached.
On the far edge of the driveway is a row of 80ft Poplars. Because I
don't want to dig through their major roots, I can't use a ditch-witch
to trench that path.
At the corner of the garage where I intended to start the underground
conduit, there is an expansion joint in the parking area pad with
asphalt expansion joint filler. The path along that joint is far enough
away from the leach bed and far enough from the tree roots that I can go
straight back along that expansion joint.
All I have to do is rent a concrete saw and make one cut a few inches
from the existing expansion joint and then fill it back in with
Quickcrete when I'm done laying the conduit.
That will be easier than hand digging a trench around 3-4" tree roots
and trying to weave the conduit over and under them.
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