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I have a 10ftx10ft cistern that is used for irrigation only. It has a flat roof constructed out of 2x8's, trex decking and an EPDM roofing membrane over that. There is no ventilation into the cistern which kept the light and bugs out and mostly kept it from freezing during the winter, but...

I have a 320 foot deep well (static level is 6 feet) that produces 2 gpm. The well is used for domestic and irrigation. The well is inadequate for my irrigation needs so I'm looking at locating more water. I have two options: drill deeper and hope I find more water OR redirect the overflow...

I have a 7 foot hill that rises up behind my house. I will be landscaping it soon and I'd like to add sprinklers. I already have an irrigation system for my front yard and would like to tap into it. Can I use my existing backflow preventer which is essentially at the bottom of the hill? Or do...

I have a 5 year old house with an attached garage. The foundation supporting the garage has developed 5 cracks - 4 in the last year. The four most recent cracks are hairline. The fifth is larger, about big enough to get the tip of a pen in. All seem to be growing. Three are spaced about 2 feet...

I saw this and I thought I'd share. This is a video of a puppy being recovered from a pipe 20 yards away from the house after accidentally being flushed by a 4 year old. They use the CCTV camera to push the dog out to a manhole in the street where someone is waiting to grab it. The dog turns...

I have a half dozen 120V 3 tier pagoda lights I'd like to install along a new walkway what I am building. I guess the question to you is how would you do this? I could run 1/2 inch SCH 40 between buried bell boxes and mount the light on top of a relatively short pipe nipple off of the bell...

I am installing a subpanel next to my main panel as I am running out of breaker space. The house is only 3 years old, but the electrician only put in a 32 space panel. Anyway, I connected my subpanel to the main panel with a short length of 2 inch diameter EMT with compression fittings rated...

I need to add some outlets in my unfinished portion of the basement and add a subpanel next to my main panel. Is PVC okay to use indoors a residential situation? I can bend pipe, but I'm slower at it and often its not the best looking. -rick

I have a 375 foot deep 6 inch diameter well producing 2 gpm. The pump is a 1/2 HP rated at 5 GPM. The static water level is 6 feet below the top of the well. Its not great, but it provides all the water for my 4 bedroom house plus irrigation for 20,000 square feet of grass. This all works ok...

I have a 3 year old 6 inch 375 foot drilled will producing 2 GPM. The iron content started off low 0.1ppm, the second year it was 2.4ppm, and it reached 13ppm the third year. I assumed the casing seal into the bedrock had failed as it the water quality seemed to be worse when it rained so I...