Oh the joy of plumbing

[Rank]

Ray is one of those grounds allowed to be a piece of rebar stubbed out of the foundation (called a ufer) when the foundation is poured? Oregon has a reputation for being pretty stringent in building codes .... especially septic.

[shadowgray396]

Originally Posted by Rank

Ray is one of those grounds allowed to be a piece of rebar stubbed out of the foundation (called a ufer) when the foundation is poured? Oregon has a reputation for being pretty stringent in building codes .... especially septic.

Not sure if you can have the ground in the foundation. I have not seen it being done that way here so far. I know at our beach house I just poured a new foundation and they still had me do two ground rods away from the foundation.

[Hank70SS]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

...What joy they are to drive in the ground in some area's.

I had to drive one 8' rod when I wired the hot tub. The ground here is loaded with rocks of all sizes. I was lucky though, it went straight in without hitting any rocks big enough to stop it.

[Durand]

Ray:

A friend of mine that does electrical work told me about this trick for ground rods. Have a liter bottle of water with you and as you drive the rod down into the ground, pour a little water around it. It has been a while since he told me this and I may have left something out but this is what I remember him saying to do. We were just shooting the bull when the subject of driving the ground rod into the hard ground around our neck of the woods came up.

HTH,
Durand

[Rank]

If worst comes to worst they make a attachment that goes on a small Milwaukee jack hammer to drive them in. Rental yards have them .... but is it worth 40 bux to save all that hassle? LOL

[shadowgray396]

Originally Posted by shadowgray396

I spent the last two day under my house redoing the plumbing. was going to have a plumber do it, but it was $600 a fixture and since I had six fixtures to hook up it was not in my budget. He was nice enough to walk me through the steps and the code info for hooking everything up correctly. He even didn't charge me anything for coming out and spending two hours with me. I got totally rain out today, so water lines are next weekend and then the inspection can be done. Now that the house is sitting on a foundation the crawl space has some room to move around under it.

Well I got to tear out half my plumbing today and start over. It didn't pass the inspection. Inspector didn't like the way I had the vents vented out. Cost me 50 dollars in new plumbing and now i will wee if it passes on Wednesday. Spent the last 3 days puting water lines in sewer again today. Hope work picks up. I don't have any work this week. Things look like they are getting slow already.

[Highway Star]

I've stayed at a holiday inn before.










The main water feed (copper) to my house broke a few years before I moved in, and it was replaced with a plastic 3/4" line that looks damn near like a garden hose. Our winters have become progressively colder each year. I'm a bit nervous about that thing freezing this winter.

[shadowgray396]

Passed the plumbing inspection today and the under floor inspection, now onto putting the new walls up on the laudary room. Probably not this weekend since we are expecting over an inch of rain,

Ray

[Hank70SS]

Glad it passed inspection. Now you get to move on and do even more work.

[Rank]

... rain? ... who needs it? LOL