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Rant - drip irrigation tubing Ashton Crusher 09-24-2007
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Posted by Ashton Crusher on September 24, 2007, 1:24 am
I had a drip system put in 20 years ago. Now it's springing leaks
almost weekly. In repairing the leaks it seems the black plastic pipe
is made with a longitudinal seam and the seam splits creating big
leaks. To make it worse, it seems that the guy who installed it
backfilled the trench with my crushed rock so this weak plastic pipe
has sharp rocks poking it to help split the seam. How in the heck did
such crappy pipe ever get any kind of approval by whoever should be
looking at this stuff???

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Posted by Bob F on September 24, 2007, 12:05 pm

>I had a drip system put in 20 years ago. Now it's springing leaks
> almost weekly. In repairing the leaks it seems the black plastic pipe
> is made with a longitudinal seam and the seam splits creating big
> leaks. To make it worse, it seems that the guy who installed it
> backfilled the trench with my crushed rock so this weak plastic pipe
> has sharp rocks poking it to help split the seam. How in the heck did
> such crappy pipe ever get any kind of approval by whoever should be
> looking at this stuff???

Have you checked the pressure regulator?

Bob



Posted by cc on September 24, 2007, 10:00 pm

>I had a drip system put in 20 years ago. Now it's springing leaks
> almost weekly. In repairing the leaks it seems the black plastic pipe
> is made with a longitudinal seam and the seam splits creating big
> leaks. To make it worse, it seems that the guy who installed it
> backfilled the trench with my crushed rock so this weak plastic pipe
> has sharp rocks poking it to help split the seam. How in the heck did
> such crappy pipe ever get any kind of approval by whoever should be
> looking at this stuff???

LOL.........Are you kiddin? You got 20 years out of a little plastic pipe,
and you're bitchin about it.

Go figure.



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