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Me? Depressed as hell.Morning folks! How's everyone doing?
So I come on here to cheer up!
Me? Depressed as hell.Morning folks! How's everyone doing?
Hope you're doing OK.Morning folks! How's everyone doing?
Suppose that's one way of finding the gas and leccy supplies ----- sssssssss zzzzzzzzzz BANG!you could mole it so no digging
MorninMorning folks! How's everyone doing?
Snap!AND it's dull as dishwater this morning, come on weather, cheer me up
Sympathies mate!Mornin
I'm fed up
I'm sick of having diary full of things to do for other people
Servicing grand daughters car today, think I got Thurs Fri free, just got a parcel to wrap and post for a friend
I'm going to have to start saying no to people
AND it's dull as dishwater this morning, come on weather, cheer me up
There are some strong opinions about using copper pipe in 'direct burial' applications - a lot of people don't seem to like it! Whilst everything is dug up, I'd be tempted to fit MDPE instead.Dinged water pipe ------
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With the excessively high water pressure I get from the mains, that pipe wouldn't last two minutes before creating a HUGE fountain!!!Dinged water pipe ------
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I am considering it. But --- the copper pipe is the earth route for all the earths in the house. In anticipation of a future change to plastics, I will do a repair for now and enable a route into the house. Changing now would be a big job involving taking up a tarmac over concrete slab driveway and trenching across a public footpath to the water meter. The public footpath bit would have to be done by a council licensed contractor. And would need a separate earth rod and mega-testing for the leccy earths.There are some strong opinions about using copper pipe in 'direct burial' applications - a lot of people don't seem to like it! Whilst everything is dug up, I'd be tempted to fit MDPE instead.
I am anticipating a huge fountain. Just as I stick my head down the hole to start fixing it tomorrow.With the excessively high water pressure I get from the mains, that pipe wouldn't last two minutes before creating a HUGE fountain!!!
I thought copper in any screed/cementitious layer was frowned upon because the chemicals in the cement eat into the copper.I am considering it. But --- the copper pipe is the earth route for all the earths in the house. In anticipation of a future change to plastics, I will do a repair for now and enable a route into the house. Changing now would be a big job involving taking up a tarmac over concrete slab driveway and trenching across a public footpath to the water meter. The public footpath bit would have to be done by a council licensed contractor. And would need a separate earth rod and mega-testing for the leccy earths.
I'll salute that. I suspect the only part of the pipe in concrete in this case, is the bit I have found. There is evidence of previous drain alterations where I am making more alterations, and I think the copper just happened to get wrapped in the concrete during the last alterations. The pipe must be sixty or seventy years old, same as the one at Wimblowdriver Towers, and still working. Old copper, decent quality unlike the oriental sh!t available today which is far less malleable and won't bend like the old stuff.But if it was in there donkeys years with no trouble, maybe best let sleeping dogs lie.
Can I be so bold as to give you a litle hint?Guid afternoon
Jam making morning
9 jars poured another 10 to go and not a dangle berry in sight !View attachment 295919
It's doing its "earthing" job as soon as it touches the ground so I wouldn't be worried about continuing in plastic or whatever takes your fancy. There must be still some touching the gound.I'll salute that. I suspect the only part of the pipe in concrete in this case, is the bit I have found. There is evidence of previous drain alterations where I am making more alterations, and I think the copper just happened to get wrapped in the concrete during the last alterations. The pipe must be sixty or seventy years old, same as the one at Wimblowdriver Towers, and still working. Old copper, decent quality unlike the oriental sh!t available today which is far less malleable and won't bend like the old stuff.
I am considering it. But --- the copper pipe is the earth route for all the earths in the house. In anticipation of a future change to plastics, I will do a repair for now and enable a route into the house. Changing now would be a big job involving taking up a tarmac over concrete slab driveway and trenching across a public footpath to the water meter. The public footpath bit would have to be done by a council licensed contractor. And would need a separate earth rod and mega-testing for the leccy earths.
Got us stumped we did it 3 time's the same each time ???That's very interesting now isn't it?
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