Scarpozzi
Lifer
I have a few cabins and a boat house out by a lake. I'm actually feeding power and water from one cabin to the other and to the boat house to avoid meter base charges.
The water meter is at the road and I have about a 200' driveway that the water line runs down to a junction box. That box is 20' from a cabin and houses a pressure reducer and a few valves and a tee that goes to a water spigot that comes out of the ground in galvanized pipe. All the other plumbing is PVC.
The other night I was working out there and had to lock up the cabin because my kids were there. I heard a noise that sounded like a water hose running and went to the junction box to find it full of water. I turned off the water at the meter, but went home because it was too dark to see what was going on and I didn't want to wait on the box to drain.
I checked it out yesterday and there was a length of PVC leaking from the spigot. I think one of them kicked the spigot and it caused the PVC to rupture, but they tell me nothing like that happened...maybe it was wildlife? We do have deer that run around there all the time. I spent a good 15 minutes digging around the box in the clay/mud. I got a new threaded coupling, a short length of pipe and a new elbow...hacksawed the old pipe out and was able to give the spigot elbow about a quarter turn to the left to line it up and cram it all back together.
The new pipe and spigot are about 100psi and the other side of the pressure reducer is 45ish....there's an tee and valve after the pressure reducer that splits the feed between the cabin and boat house/bathroom.
Looking at the picture....the flaw I see is that all it takes is someone kicking the top end of this spigot and it's going to use leverage to do the same kind of damage to the PVC fittings below ground unless I can somehow anchor the galvanized pipe up high to create a pivot. Basically....create a point to hold the pipe and stop the pipe from moving below ground. I'm thinking about 2 pieces of 3' bent rebar in a U shape....and driving it into the ground as an anchor...
Do they sell a solution for this kind of thing? It lasted 10 years without having a problem....I'd just like to keep from having to do this again if possible....wasn't a big deal, but won't have as much pipe to work with next time. The repair may require more digging.
How would you do it?
The water meter is at the road and I have about a 200' driveway that the water line runs down to a junction box. That box is 20' from a cabin and houses a pressure reducer and a few valves and a tee that goes to a water spigot that comes out of the ground in galvanized pipe. All the other plumbing is PVC.
The other night I was working out there and had to lock up the cabin because my kids were there. I heard a noise that sounded like a water hose running and went to the junction box to find it full of water. I turned off the water at the meter, but went home because it was too dark to see what was going on and I didn't want to wait on the box to drain.
I checked it out yesterday and there was a length of PVC leaking from the spigot. I think one of them kicked the spigot and it caused the PVC to rupture, but they tell me nothing like that happened...maybe it was wildlife? We do have deer that run around there all the time. I spent a good 15 minutes digging around the box in the clay/mud. I got a new threaded coupling, a short length of pipe and a new elbow...hacksawed the old pipe out and was able to give the spigot elbow about a quarter turn to the left to line it up and cram it all back together.
The new pipe and spigot are about 100psi and the other side of the pressure reducer is 45ish....there's an tee and valve after the pressure reducer that splits the feed between the cabin and boat house/bathroom.
Looking at the picture....the flaw I see is that all it takes is someone kicking the top end of this spigot and it's going to use leverage to do the same kind of damage to the PVC fittings below ground unless I can somehow anchor the galvanized pipe up high to create a pivot. Basically....create a point to hold the pipe and stop the pipe from moving below ground. I'm thinking about 2 pieces of 3' bent rebar in a U shape....and driving it into the ground as an anchor...
Do they sell a solution for this kind of thing? It lasted 10 years without having a problem....I'd just like to keep from having to do this again if possible....wasn't a big deal, but won't have as much pipe to work with next time. The repair may require more digging.
How would you do it?
