Water Lines

rino1494

For houses, what do you do with the water lines ??

In my area, the water company requires 3/4 copper k line. We stub it into the house and run it out to the property line and coil it up. The water company has their own excavators which they have contracts for come and tap the main and hook them up.

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jmic

We use 3/4" - 1 1/4" K copper ( some houses have irrigation systems ) avg. is 1". I make connection to valve box and stub it into foundation.

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Joe

rino1494

I wish that the water company would put a curb stop in on each property. They will come in and if the main is on the other side of the road, they'll shoot a bullet and if they can't get it, they'll dig up the road and they patch it with cold patch and it falls right apart.

I think that the next development we do, we are gonna run conduit across the road for each lot so that they don't have to dig up the asphalt.

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jmic

Thats crazy, why wouldn't they be required to run a service to each lot to a curb box? The Developer should just do it on his own. Who wants your sub division all dug up after the fact and you're left with inferior rds.?

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Joe

dayexco

here, all the water/sewer services are stubbed into each lot before the subbase material goes down. there's zero digging in the street after the fact

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PipeGuy

ditto

rino1494

The gas is the same way here too.

The gas and water companies won't run laterals into the lots because if a line sits for more than 45 days, then they consider it contaminated. I think they are using that for a excuse because they don't want to spend the money to run them in case the lot never sells.

The lastest development we did the road is all dug up and so are the swales thanks to the utility companies. Now the developer has to pay us to fix the swales and patch the roads.

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