I Am Easy To Please

big rockpile · #1 05/21/14, 06:54 PM

Had an Outside Faucet under the House, Pain to get to. Had an Apartment in our Garage, that wasn't going to get used. Went to turn water into there but Water Lines had Froze and broke, plus they had glued the fitting on the Line where it came in.

So we dug down to the Water Line cut it off, put in Frost Free Hydrant. Now I can have water outside water Animals and Garden, without taking water through the House

Life is Good!

big rockpile

Travis in Louisiana · #2 05/21/14, 07:25 PM

Sounds like a JOB well DONE!!!

sisterpine · #3 05/21/14, 09:49 PM

Water access is always a good thing. Good job for you BRP~!

ceresone · #4 05/22/14, 09:30 AM

Did you remember to put a bed of gravel under the drain hole! man fixed mine few years ago-and didnt-we had to dig it up to find out why it was freezing

rambler · #5 05/22/14, 12:40 PM

While I have a few different sources of water, when I had to have a new well dug last fall I had them install a good hydrant 20 feet away, and I had enough pipe and valves put in so that I can turn off all the other underground supplies and still have that hydrant function. They were very happy to work with me, they said typically people want to save $50 and run everything off the same line, then if things go wrong everything has to be shut off and no water anywhere.... He was happy I started the conversation on how to plumb it so its isolated.

My plumbing was put in before the 1950s, not sure how old really, and someday something will go wrong, and it will be a mess, here frost line is 5 feet deep so a winter disaster or even a summer one requires a lot to deal with fixing things.

At least I will have that one outside hydrant with new hose and a water source to keep the critters happy and get a bucket to flush a toilet now and then when things go wrong.

It is piece of mind.

Paul

big rockpile · #6 05/22/14, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ceresone

Did you remember to put a bed of gravel under the drain hole! man fixed mine few years ago-and didnt-we had to dig it up to find out why it was freezing

Actually I put some pretty good size Field Rock around it and Pumas Rock over that.

big rockpile