Well this should be an easy one. I plan on running potable water from our house to a new outbuilding that as of yet is not built. The building will be in use only during the warmer month so I was planning on buying the water pipe in the trech with the electrical – about 18 inches below grade. The house has a walkout basement so I was thinking about just running the water through the wall and underground but was wondering about the aesthetics. Any other suggestions on what would look good and / or choice of material. Thanks for you time!
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If I understand correctly you are going out, down, across, and back up.
Note that you will have to blow down this line in the winter or have a drain at some spot below frost level.
That said there are a million things that you could put in front of the line where it exits the building and goes down.
Shrubs, plant trelise (sp?), lawn orniment (gaze ball, statue, pink flamgo, etc). Take some cedar and build a small cover.
Still no help aye?
Don't know what you mean by 'aesthetics' underground.
You didn't mention in your post where you are located for frost depth of your line. Regardless, if I was shutting it down every winter I'd want a way to easily drain the line.
garden hose..roll it up in winter? Worked for my goat shed.
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Let me see if I have your situation straight.
If the above is true;
Trench a foot below frost from the existing basement to inside the new footing (as far inside as the frost line is deep)
Penetrate the basement wall from the bottom of the trench and lay your pipe and conduit.
If you are not planning to keep the outbuilding heated, terminate the water feed at a freeze proof yard spigot just outside the new footings. Run a washing machine hose down to a double wall spigot. Run your inside plumbing up to the faucet/s.
In the winter, close the yard spigot and open the second wall spigot to drain the system.
You can eliminate the infeed wall spigot with a simple hose to pipe adapter on a Tee with the drain wall spigot on the other leg of the Tee.
SamT
Not enough detail to know, but depending on useage, you could put a frost proof hydrant in the new out building.
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Do it right - trench below frost line - 48? - call in utility locates before - bury in separate trench from electric. That's code...
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