Don't you have some random copper laying around? Our fiber tracer wire is 24 awg. Just place the conductive wire in the same hole as the water/sewer lines. The color is kind of pointless but I guess you could spend the money and follow the rules *shrug*.
If the wire ends the locate ends. Why not just extend the wire with the new pipe? 14 gauge seems like way too big if you ask me, that's a lot of money down that new sewer line. On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 11:31 AM Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > I'm working on doing specs for a project (home) which will require burying > new water and sewer lines on the property. > > I'm tired of not being able to locate these after they're buried so I plan > on having the contractor bury some tracer wire along with the plumbing. > > I've learned that the best option for things like this is to either spec > or provide exactly what I want buried. Otherwise you'll end up with some > inexperienced contractor which installs something which won't work. > > Apparently the choices for tracer wire are far more varied than I had > expected. Insulation, metal type, gauge, color, and so on. > > It looks like 14AWG copper HMWPE might be what I'm looking for. But there > are other options as well. Does any of this work better or is less (or > more) likely to be damaged in a way which makes it untraceable? I'm > assuming green and blue will be needed for sewer and water. > > I don't think the following will apply, but there is also the possibility > that at least one of the lines won't terminate at one end anywhere that we > can poke the wire up above the ground (tapping into existing line) I'm > assuming that one can resolve this by laying a ground rod in the trench and > terminating to that. > > Any other things I should watch for here? > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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