Plumbing: Connecting to the City Main – Shingle Style Home – Bob Vila eps.1412
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Someone tell Mark to stop saying "contemplation."
hey riley ever heard of a nail gun I'm just saying
Don't you ever use plastic pipe for underground water service pipes. I am surprised you use metal pipes for below ground service. Here in UK we use MDPE plastic pipes for this. All colour coded blue to make it easy to identify what it is. Part of water regulations as to what to use. Metal pipes can still be prone to attack from chemicals in groundwater. Plastic is easy to cut, bend and will take a bit of ground movement. So easy
With all due respect to the older "that is correct" gentleman,, although his assessment of copper tubing is mostly correct saying it isn't nearly as subject to interior corrosion,, copper tubing itself is not impervious to deterioration due to chemical reaction. Copper will indeed develop pinholes under attack from hard,, iron/sulfur laden water after 15 yrs. or so usage. Copper generally comes in three types,, M,, L & K types with K being the thickest,, most expensive & the type which will hold up far longer than especially the much thinner "M type" copper. Under this much ground cover,, plastic piping (IMO) is by far the wiser choice today & I don't say this based on it's ease of installation,, I speak of "endurance" of the piping itself whereby newly developed plastics of today will not corrode or expand & burst with adequate insulation around them or ground cover as is the case here. Copper makes a beautiful job & I've put in miles of it throughout my lifetime but no one particularly cares to gaze at their plumbing system for it's beauty. Go with a proven & approved plastic in your area,, you can't go wrong..
Anyone else notice Bob mentioned "the state of Cambridge"? Cambridge, MA is a wonderful city, very different from Boston, but it is not a state!