I live out in the boonies in a house I inherited in northeast Texas. About once a year I have a failure on my main line and I have to do a repair due to the ground shifting in the summer. I'm sick of these repairs and want to replace the entire line.
My water meter is on the very corner of my property, from the meter to my house runs about 350 feet (I do have a shut off in my yard).
I plan to rent a trencher and move a few feet over from where the old line is, running a new trench with a new line, and I'll just have to make up the differences on the ends with some elbows and such. The pipe in the ground is 3/4" PVC bell end, which I plan to replace with the same.
I have access to quite a bit of 2" IPS gas line for free, and I my question here is, would there be any issue running the replacement water line through the 2" tubing, then placing it into the trench with sand bedding? My thought process here is that it would create a buffer for the movement of the ground and be less likely to cause breaks, but I've never done anything like this so I have no idea if that's the case. Can anyone offer any insight?
My water meter is on the very corner of my property, from the meter to my house runs about 350 feet (I do have a shut off in my yard).
I plan to rent a trencher and move a few feet over from where the old line is, running a new trench with a new line, and I'll just have to make up the differences on the ends with some elbows and such. The pipe in the ground is 3/4" PVC bell end, which I plan to replace with the same.
I have access to quite a bit of 2" IPS gas line for free, and I my question here is, would there be any issue running the replacement water line through the 2" tubing, then placing it into the trench with sand bedding? My thought process here is that it would create a buffer for the movement of the ground and be less likely to cause breaks, but I've never done anything like this so I have no idea if that's the case. Can anyone offer any insight?