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Posted by John on August 17, 2007, 10:55 pm
> At the suggestion of everyone here, i went ahead with going all the way to
> the meter, rather that trying to hook on to the old steel line. Whole job
> took 6 hours with the help of a bobcat mini excavator. We dug along side
> the old line, to the side walk, then managed to get a couple of scoops on
> the other side of the side walk. Hand dug the rest of the way on the
> meter side. They had a copper pigtail on the meter, so we cut it at a
> good round spot, doubled the pipe over on the house side, put a big cable
> clamp on it and pulled it out from under the sidewalk with the bobcat. It
> left a nice big tunnel we were able to push the new 3/4 copper right
> through there and put a nice big brass compression union onto the existing
> pigtail. Other end through the new foundation and sealed up, with a nice
> new ball valve on the inside. Finished backfilling the foundation after
> that. <WHEW!> One more thing off the list.....
I had that done about 10 years ago. The increase in water pressure damn
near threw me out of the shower!
--
John
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