Installing insulated underground pipe

Posted by Steve on 10 September 2009 | 5 Comments

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I have just installed a 100’ roll of your yellow tripex insulated underground pipe, and it was very easy to work with.  My son Matt dug a trench with a small mini excavator digging 24" - 28" deep. 

The house this is for is being built in Arkansas, where you only have to go down 18” to get below the frost line but we went a little deeper than that for good measure. 

This is a home with a cement slab, so we are installing radiant floor heat and hooking the insulated underground  pipe up to an outdoor wood boiler as the heat source. 

The yellow drain tile and insulated pex was so easy to work. We first had to pound a hole through the concrete block wall and fish the pipes through and under a septic drainage pipe that was in the way. We found that it was no problem at all to fish the insulated underground pex pipes through the hole and twist them into place.

From the time we started digging the trench, making the hole and going through the concrete block wall and under the drainage pipe, as well as rolled out and burying the pipe, we did not spend more than 1 hour including backfilling the trench.  Just a note: Rolling the insulated underground pipe out was a breeze.

Sincerely,
Mike