Our business is primarily in the nonpublic serviced areas, so wells or water storage tanks are the norm. We have encountered times when a 1-inch water line needed to be installed under existing walks and landscape. 

To do this we first bore a hole through the basement masonry wall then use the electric hammer to drive a 1-inch schedule 80 pipe, with a cone-shaped pointed insert on the end, to the excavation beyond the walk or landscape.  The conversion to HDPE pipe can be made at that point.

Stephen Tricamo PE
The Potter’s Co.
Windsor, Ohio

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