Running water to garage

[bjochman]

Going to building a detached garage, approximately 75' from house. Would like to run water to it, more for a faucet for hose, washing cars, etc, then for having a sink, but maybe that in the future. What do i need to do before concrete is poured? Just place a piece of 2" PVC or something, buried about 3' down so i could eventually run some pex from the house to it? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[dan_evv]

Run the 2" for now, that is what i did when we build our house. I put two 2" thru the basement wall. One for electric and one for water. It will be very easy to pull 3/4 or 1" pex line thru 2" pipe. Just make sure you use sweeping 90 bends.

Just me 2 cents.

 

[bjochman]

That was going to be my next question how to get it from the house. I don't really want to bore thru the basement wall, how can i go thru the floor truss/seal area instead of thru the cement wall (future leaks?) and then bring it under ground without it looking too "sloppy"?

 

[scottm]

You live where you don't have to worry about freezing? If not, you really want it coming into the basement below the frost line. Here in Ohio its somewhere around 30-36".

When I build my garage U bought a 10' section of 3" PVC and cut into 3 sections each a little over 3'. 1 for power, 1 for water, and 1 for gas. I stuck them in the ground next to the walls before my slab was poured so they would have about a foot exposed above the slab when it was done and I could easily did to them from outside. I buried the water line 4' deep and used one of those hydrants that put the water shut off valve 3' below grade in the garage, shoved down through the PVC pipe, and went through the basement wall at the other end. Used hydrolic cement to seal the hole before backfilling. Then I used sand to fill in the space around the pipe to keep the cold air away from it. If I ever need to replace the hydrant I should be able to dig under the pipe and have the sand fall through to open it back up.

 

[nate379]

I was going to run a water line out to the shed in my yard (for the garden and watering the lawn) but the frost line is 10-12ft here (yes that's correct...feet). Wasn't worth it.

 

[bjochman]

It freezes where I am. I was thinking that I would have a shut off valve in the basement, and then turn this off in the winter and "drain" the line by opening the valve in the garage. Maybe I need to think this further...

 

[nate379]

You could do that. My Dad has water from the house to one of his garages because the camper gets parked over there in the summer.

He had a T in the line after the shut off. Shut the water, open valve in garage. Pull cap off T and use the air compressor to blow the water out.

 

[johnboy94]

For entry to the garage use 3" schedule 40 with a 3" pressure 90 in the slab. It will look like an L . You can assemble a 1" PVC water line with a 90 deg at any time after the slab is poured. As far as frost lines....Yeah we don't need no frost lines down here. I just put one of these in my slab that is being poured next week. Another thing I did is put a 2.5 electric conduit running under the slab from side to side, to save wire later when I wire.

Johnboy

 

[sharage71]

What about drains from the sink. Heard alot of talk about incoming. What about outgoing?