Best Near-Meter Piping Arrangement

[NTL1991]

I'm in the planning process of replacing the original near-meter water piping. The main issues are a frozen, rusted ball valve upstream of the meter, and suspected leaky buried supply pipes downstream of the meter.

What's the best arrangement for the near-meter pipes? I'm all about valves and gauges. Does anyone have any pictures of installations they want to show off for ideas? I'd like to have a ball-valve isolated drain cock to make draining down the system easy if I ever have to. Gauges would be cool to see what's going on as far as pressure goes.

I'm planning on 3/4" copper running up the foundation wall to get the meter out of the pit. At the 1st floor joist level, I'll transition to AquaPEX for the new runs to replace the buried piping.

Any ideas?

This is what I'm dealing with:

3/4" supply from the street, rusty ball valve, meter, then 3/4" line through the basement floor, which tees off to each corner of the house, with the lines running up along the basement walls with old globe valves.



I'm planning on digging that pit out a bit and laying down crushed stone to make it a little nicer.

Nick

 

[NTL1991]

Well I ran some more PEX lines and cleaned up the meter pit. Now I’m heading out to get some crushed stone to clean it up some more.



Here you can see the wall (adjacent to the backer board for the ground wire) where I’d like to have the meter located to pipe the main up under the joists.



-Nick