Replacing A Water Service Line

We had to replace a water service line because it had rusted out and started leaking. Experience has shown us that once a steel line begins to leak that you'll constantly be fighting it. It's much better to go ahead and replace it. You can see how the rust had built up on the line and made it about twice the normal diameter.
We replaced it with PVC and it'll be good for practically forever now........

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• steel
• service line
• rust
• pvc pipe
• fittings
• hole
• dig
• dirt

[micol018]

isn't it buried too shallow?

[CBum425]

@micol018 No, it isn't too shallow. As I've replied to the person below you, we don't have a frost line here and therefore no worries about freezing. We put the new line in as deep or maybe just a little deper than the one we replaced. The only reason we replaced it is it was about 30-40 years old and had some rust holes in it.

[Leadfarmer2009]

hope its warm there, that line is real shallow.

[CBum425]

@Leadfarmer2009 We get maybe, a most, 15 nights a year that are sub-freezing and maybe 10 days that stay below freezing. It's rare we have a hard freez and never have had a service line freeze

[hilltopfarmsplumbing]

I think pex would be way better. No fittings except at the ends, it's flexible so you could kink it or crush it and it wont leak. Not that you would want to.

Depends where you live as far what the codes say about doing it yourself. Where I live that pipe would be 5 feet underground and the meter would be in the basement.

[lastfanstanding999]

which is best to use for main supply, pex or pvc? do you need a perment to do it yourself?