new 1" pex water service

I dont know about you Pro, but this florida dirt is a PITA to dig ey?

Sugar sand. You take one shovel full out and 2 fall back in.

man, I wish we had lines that shallow here. well not really they would all freeze but it must be nice.

Wow you guys got it made down there just draggin your heel across the ground like that to install a water supply...

Here we have to dig!

Try 4' deep in petrified potatoes...

here we are down 6 feet in hard clay soil.

What's that stuff beside the trench. Sure ain't dirt like I had to dig. Where's the clumps and the rocks? LOL

Redwood said:

Wow you guys got it made down there just draggin your heel across the ground like that to install a water supply...

Here we have to dig!

Try 4' deep in petrified potatoes...

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Plumber Jim said:

here we are down 6 feet in hard clay soil.

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Where I live now we go minimum 18" deep. Digging is pretty good. Some clay, but lots of sand (river delta). Nice and easy. Still too much to hand bomb though. Looks like Floridians have it easier than us.

Where I used to live it was min 4' deep and was all rocks with a tiny little bit of sand/gravel in between.

Worked in Calgary for one job (Wendy's burger joint). Minimum 10' deep. Holy hell!!! What a ditch that was!

Plumber Jim said:

here we are down 6 feet in hard clay soil.

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Me too Jim. Unless I'm lucky enough to hit rocks varying from fist size to 100 pounders, all impacted in shale. But usually clay.

12 inches of cover. thats all we need. it might be more towards the north. they might have a frost line.

That must be NICE to dig in !! Pro ,,,, that a 1 day job ?? I sorta envy you FLA plumbers !!

yeah, one day. started at about 10am and finished at 6pm

We have clay and iron ore. When it has a little moisture it is good digin'. until you run into iron ore the size of a volkswagen. I bet you come up short backfilling?

Redwood said:

Wow you guys got it made down there just draggin your heel across the ground like that to install a water supply...

Here we have to dig!

Try 4' deep in petrified potatoes...

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And they get to run the water line up the outside of the house! How cool is that?

I still can't get over the amount of piping that is external to the building in Florida. I know it doesn't freeze but that's not even the point. Please don't take offense because I know that you didn't plumb it that way at new con but it just looks like crap and gives any pissed off neighbor an easy way to cause the ho grief.

How often do you get repair calls for damaged external piping?

PipeDreamer said:

And they get to run the water line up the outside of the house! How cool is that?

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Ya, my pop was doing some work for my aunt in Palo Alto, CA. He needed to shut off the water. Searched and searched and searched for the main water valve. Couldn't find it. Finally he traced a line in the crawl to the side of the house and found it outside. They pop up like a gas line and shoot in the side of the house from outside. Very strange to a northerner.

Not very frequently. Usually a snapped off hose bib when I do get one.

smellslike$tome said:

How often do you get repair calls for damaged external piping?

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