Sunday, April 1, 2012

Running The grey water line

 We are installing a water filter in the well house which will be automatically back flushing the sediment that it filters. So we are installing a drain line that connects to the gray water system.

You can see here how I marked the joints with a magic marker and am now going to glue them together.
 The drain pipe is placed in the ditch that connects it to the main line.
 we actually had to go under the electric conduit that I just installed due to the fact that there was not enough drop in the drain line to make sure it would drain away from the building.I used 2 inch drain pipe
 The line you see here is a four inch sewer pipe with holes at about 4:30 and 7:30,  to which all the other two inch PVC lines meet. So this one sewer line is servicing the shop, the bathhouse and the studio.

First I pulled a string with a level on it from the start of the drain here to determine that it was enough of a slope to drain the water adequately. I then dug a ditch about 1 foot wide and about 22 inches deep. I then placed 1 inch gravel about 4 inches deep underneath the pipe. I laid the pipe on the gravel and made sure it was at a good slope, then glued it in place.

 I placed gravel around the sides of the pipe and covered this with garden weed barrier material so the soil/sand would not clog the gravel.
 At the end I anchored it in the ground with a cinderblock and will dig a large enough hole covered by a grate so as to keep animals out of the hole. I will put some sort of screen at the end of the pipe to keep creatures from crawling up into the buildings.

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