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Just had my 750 gal, 2-chamber tank pumped (every 4 years). It's got a pvc effluent filter on the outlet that I just remove and hose clean when pumped. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the tank or drain field since I've owned it, it was installed circa early 1990's under dubious permitting...

Can (must) P-trap be directly underneath the drain in stand-up shower stall? I'm roughing in a 48"X36" one piece shower stall with a center drain. In the photo I've just got it dry fit. This is the way I "think" it's supposed to go? I can't imagine moving the P-trap any closer to the vent, as...

so having the tee off to the second house BEFORE the pressure tank won't cause excessive pump cycling?

I'm considering a replacement/upgrade of my well tank (currently 30 gallon with a 30/50 switch). I'm on a shared well (I own it). Without getting into an internet lawyer thread, the "other" house thinks the fact that water come out of their faucet is magic and see no need for their own pressure...

this thread has been most enlightening. Thanks Reach4 for all of your suggestions! Undoubtedly there will be more later! Further complication....(and we've strayed far from the brass DZR philosophical discussion)....what if you were on a shared well, and there was a structure upstream of you (I...

I may be mis-quoting the well guy that replaced my pitless, and is soon to replace my pump, but he tells me that when he replaces the pump, it will be PVC from the pump to the pitless, and pex(?) from the pitless to the house. I currently have hundreds of feet of the black poly-b all over the...

Where does one find 1" Threaded EP fittings that can take Propex on the other end? I can't find them any where...if they're available, that solves a LOT of my problems! If I can get by with stainless steel just for the tank tee, and EP for everything else....... 480 ft well. Ph ranges from...

ph goes "slightly higher" after a good, long rain, and "slightly lower" after a few weeks with no rain, same for alkaline (might be the opposite direction), had a geologist and soil scientist explain it to me, but it's all greek. something about "excessively well drained soils" and "very shallow...

This is more of a philosophical question...years ago there were all the problems with brass fittings (Zurn) failing due to dezincification, so everyone switched to DZR brass. Now everyone's flipping out over lead content, so everyone's switching to lead-free brass, which....contains more than...

Yeah...those other posts echo what I'm dealing with: "Not the ideal situation but it's what I have to work with". I'm not going to jack the house up or start tunneling through the foundation footing just to get a vent stack in. This is the best, cost-effective repair I could implement in an...

I guess to add clarity to my question, would the heat of the curing concrete deform the pvc? I have a couple of options for protecting the joints, especially with pipe thermal expansion, but I'm more concerned about the curing temperature of the concrete. Sleeving it.....would be hard...if not...

Have an unfortunate "this is the only way this is going to work" situation with a DMV repair, resulting in the repair portion of the drain pipe, having to run 4 feet horizontally (yes, at the correct slope of 1/4"/ft) before turning up into the main vent stack...mostly above the gravel sub-grade...