With the crew coming to grade the front of the garage, I figured I’d better get the water line installed. So I rented the 18” trencher from Home Depot to make the job a little easier.
Since I had the trencher I figured I’d better run the gas line to the house too. They won’t be connected right away, but at least the lines are ran.
So here’s the trenches dug up.
I got the water line and the conduit that the water line runs through installed and to the house now. Tunneling under that concrete sidewalk was no piece of cake. I did a combination of pressure washer, digging, and just brute force with a sledge hammer. But I got it punched through.
I was so muddy and so on that I didn’t take pictures during this time. But here it is covered up between the garage and the side walk.
I need to bring a rake and also tamp the dirt down some more. But my father in law and wife came over to help do some digging and covering the trench.
Unfortunately, I didn’t know that the downspouts ran along this sidewalk. I could have swore the old terra cotta pipe I re-routed around the egress window was the downspouts. Looking back I never did verify, just figured they had to fix the pipe above ground and and just put the pvc to the terra cotta.
Oh well that was a waste of time in the past.
Either way, I found the down spout with the trencher. So we had to dig it up to get it replaced.
Here is the current dug up area between the sidewalk and the house.
Along with the trench toward the garage.
I still need to send a pipe under the sidewalk for the gas line. But I put it off til tomorrow so I could get some chores done around the house.
If Everything thing goes well, I’ll get the gas line in the ground and the downspout repaired tomorrow. Along with get the trench covered back up before the storm that’s coming in Tuesday.
The only thing I would have done differently with the gas is put a shutoff valve on the outside below the union and a pvc sleeve thru the wall.Both required by code in my neck of the woods.
