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[ronald.olds at mchsi.com]

Thanks everyone for your advise.  I do have a question on the soaker hose.  Doesn't it require pressure to force the water though the walls?  I would be afraid that the water would back up in the line.

Ron Olds
-------------- Original message from "Mullen, Tim (IS)" <Tim.Mullen at ngc.com>: -------------- 


> Brian Kennedy wrote: 
> > 
> > A big enough dry well should do the job. How about attaching it 
> > to a soaker hose? Is there something nearby that needs watering? 
> 
> I cleverly did this many years ago. I attached some clear plastic 
> tubing to the outlet on the outside of the house (used a couple of 
> adapters to size the plastic pipe down to the tubing size). 
> 
> Then I ran the other end of the tube to a flowerbed along the fence so 
> that we wouldn't have to water there anymore. Big mistake. The AC 
> makes a LOT of water, and it ended up drowning the plants. 
> 
> However, this would work better if you did in fact attach it to a soaker 
> hose to spread out the runoff. 
> 
> But in any case, attaching a hose/tube to the outlet can easily be done 
> to re-route the water to another place. 
> 
> Tim Mullen 
> 
> Chantilly, VA