{"id":14000,"date":"2024-05-01T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/?p=14000"},"modified":"2024-05-06T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T18:05:06","slug":"water-and-sewer-taps-for-our-not-so-tiny-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/water-and-sewer-taps-for-our-not-so-tiny-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Water and Sewer Taps for Our Not-So-Tiny House"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have taps! We can finally move forward!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been waiting for water and sewer taps. We applied when we started this whole thing. They let us pay for them on March 4. Finally, on May 1, they came out and put them in.\u00a0 For months we have been just waiting (and paying for a Portajohn rental, which is a drop in the bucket in the overall costs of this but bothers me more than it should).<\/p>\n

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“Locate” on both sides and the center of the driveway to the cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

People came out and spray painted over and over. I thought they were marking where the taps would go, which seemed like some pretty vague instructions. But they were actually marking that they had checked and there was nothing in the way.<\/p>\n

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Digging for Water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The city water pipe runs under the other side of our road. They dug and dug to reach it.<\/p>\n

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Connecting a Pneumatic Mole to get under the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once they found water, they used a pneumatic mole to get under the road. That’s the same tool they used to get the gas line to our house.<\/p>\n

Bringing Natural Gas to the New House ><\/a><\/p>\n

They used the level to make sure they didn’t go down at an angle and pierce the sewer pipe they went over or come up through the road.<\/p>\n

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Pneumatic Mole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a better look at the tool when it came out the other side.<\/p>\n

GRUNDOMAT\u00ae Horizontal Boring Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compressed air repeatedly propels the piston against the rear of the chisel head assembly of the piercing tool. This first compresses the pre-tensioned steel spring which forces the chisel head assembly forward independently of the main casing to provide a pilot bore. Then, the same continuous force thrusts the main casing ahead. With decades of proven performance, the Grundomat\u2019s patented stepped-cone head consistently provides accurate moling results.<\/p>\n

Grundomat Pneumatic Piercing Tools Trenchless Horizontal Boring Overview<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pulling the pneumatic boring tool air supply hose back out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They took the boring tool off the pneumatic hose and attached a water line to it. Then one guy pulled the hose back out, pulling the water line under the road.<\/p>\n

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Feeding the water hose under the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This guy fed the water line through.\u00a0 Can you see the wire? They put a wire next to the water line so they can find it again with a metal detector.<\/p>\n

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Connecting the water line from our meter to the water pipe under the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once they got to the other side, they attached the water line to the main water pipe.<\/p>\n

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Water!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Look! Water! They attached this end of the water line to a water meter.<\/p>\n

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The water meter our water line connects to.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The water line connects to the water meter and a cut-off.<\/p>\n

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Water meters include the tap, meter, setter, meter can, and fittings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The meter can twists to the right height.<\/p>\n

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Water Meter Can<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They assembled everything and put it in the hole by the road.<\/p>\n

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Water Meter Can<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here it is all finished. They buried it all ready for the plumbers to bring water to the cabin!<\/p>\n

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Burying the water meter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That trailer is the compressor for the pneumatic mole.<\/p>\n

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The line under the road to our water meter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the waterline connection on the other side of the road before they buried it.<\/p>\n

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Digging for the sewer connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sewer Connection<\/h2>\n

They started digging for the sewer pipe with the excavator, then finished uncovering it with a shovel. The sewer pipe is not very far down.<\/p>\n

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He wiped off the sewer pipe with some water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once they dug up the sewer pipe, they wiped it off.<\/p>\n

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Sewer line connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This guy measured the pipe with a strip of metal and put these bolts onto each end.<\/p>\n

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Coupling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He folded the strip to the right length. I don’t know the name of this yet, but it holds the bolts that will hold the coupling from our sewer line to the sewer pipe.<\/p>\n

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Drilling into the sewer pipe to create a connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then they drilled an opening into the pipe.<\/p>\n

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One guy drilled while the other poured water over the area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One guy poured water as he drilled. The coupler goes over this hole and the bolts clamp it in place.<\/p>\n

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The purple stuff is Oatey Purple CPVC and PVC Primer. The clear stuff is Clear PVC Cement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once they had the coupler on there, they put on some PVC pieces.<\/p>\n

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The purple stuff is Oatey Purple CPVC and PVC Primer. The clear stuff is Clear PVC Cement<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They put on a surprisingly long piece of pipe.<\/p>\n

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That seems like a really long piece of pipe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What?<\/p>\n

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We can tap for methane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They scooped all of the soil back into the hole and covered it up. I gotta say, this does not look right to me. I’ve never seen something like this before. Maybe our plumber changes it?<\/p>\n

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I have never seen anything like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you ever seen anything like this before?<\/p>\n

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They spray painted the lid green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, that’s because it was wrong. The older guy came back and they dug it back up and put this on instead. They spray-painted it green.<\/p>\n

We have water and sewer taps! We can finally get moving again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have taps! We can finally move forward! We\u2019ve been waiting for water and sewer taps. We applied when we started this whole thing. They let us pay for them on March 4. Finally, on May 1, they came out and put them in.\u00a0 For …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cottage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/featured-water_connection.jpg?fit=810%2C431&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14008,"url":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/bringing-water-to-the-cabin-nearly-there\/","url_meta":{"origin":14000,"position":0},"title":"Bringing Water to the Cabin, Nearly There!","author":"Carla","date":"May 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The water and sewer taps were put in. 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