[Shop-talk] Service Line Protection Programs?

[John P. New]

Interesting that you replaced the water lines by trenching.

I remember as a kid in the 70's watching our water line being replaced. In the 
basement, they attached a coil of flexible copper pipe to the old galvanized 
line. Then they dug a hole at the water valve at the curb, attached the 
backhoe bucket to the disconnected water line, and pulled. I remember running 
back and forth between the curb and the basement to watch them feed the 
copper pipe through the foundation. I can't remember how long it took, but 
pretty quickly I saw a brand new copper line emerge into the hole around the 
water valve. A few connections and the job was done, no trenching involved.

I just Google-mapped the house, and I would say that the water service is 
about a 65-foot run, through soil which is probably pretty gravelly (on the 
shores of Lake Ontario). I'm sure there are limitations on this technique, 
such as line length and condition, as well as the type of soil the line is 
in.

John P. New
London, Ontario, Canada

On June 23, 2008 04:12 pm, Dave Russell wrote:
> some such. Large deep trench across entire front yard. Water company, at
...
>
> Last year, my neighbors waterline sprung a leak. Plumbers spent several
> days trenching & replacing the line. He had some kind of water company