Plastic water supply in the country with their own hands: 2
If you want to have a good harvest in a country plot or even the opportunity to live there at any time of the year, then you need to equip it with a full-fledged water supply system. The price of the finished plumbing depends on many aspects, but if you do all the work yourself and from plastic pipes, then it will not be so high in comparison with the opening opportunities. In this article we will give all the necessary recommendations for this.
Stage # 1: Source
Without a water source, all other works do not make sense, so you should start with its implementation.
Selection
Let's consider all possible options:
- Centralized water supply. The fact that for apartment buildings is considered something mundane, in country houses is very rare. Of course, everything depends on the distance of your site from the city, but in most cases the general highway goes too far. And either eyeliner is impossible at all, or incredibly expensive.
- River. Here it should be immediately noted that this option can not be used in any case. Is there a river near the house? Wonderful! It will be where to buy in the summer, but such a polluted source is not suitable for water supply. Today, the water in natural water bodies has such a composition that it is strongly recommended not to use it not only for drinking but also for watering the vegetable garden.
- Well. Construction of the well is the best option, especially since there is a construction from which to choose, depending on your budget and plans for its future operation:
| Title | Description |
| Water well | In essence, it is a reservoir of accumulation of precipitation. The liquid in it is not much different in quality from the one that is in the reservoirs, but at least for a primitive watering plants come down. But this is possible only after a rainy period. |
| Well-well | This design allows to extract already groundwater, located at a depth starting from eight meters, but has a weak performance. |
| Sand hole | Drilling to a depth of 10-40 subway allows you to get to the sandy horizon, which has sufficiently clean water. Productivity - 0.3-0.8 m3/ h The service life of 3-7 years due to the possibility of silting. |
| Artesian well | Ideal option that requires drilling to a depth of 100-150 m, but at the same time providing water that is the cleanest after a variety of filtration layers, performance is 2-10 m3/ h and service life of at least 50 years. |
Tip: if you stop on the implementation of the well, be sure to take care that the compost heap, outdoor toilet or cesspool are no closer than twenty meters to it. In the opposite case, it will be contaminated with their wastewater, penetrating into the ground.
Arrangement
Let us dwell on the artesian or sand well, as they are able to provide sufficient drinking water to provide a residential house and watering the vegetable garden. The plastic water supply system in the country house begins with the creation of the caisson necessary to accommodate the water-lifting equipment.
It is a small room in which a water pumping station or outlet of a submersible pump, a hydroaccumulator and a connection to an external pipeline with stop valves are located.
Stage 2: water supply
The most rational material for the wiring of the summer house water supply is the plastic or metal-plastic. To verify this, let's look at the comparative characteristic with other materials:
| Material | pros | Minuses |
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As you can see, plastic definitely wins in all respects, pushing the metal into the background.
The instruction for laying pipes depends on what type of water supply you plan to implement:
Summer demountable
This is the simplest type of piping system, in which even cheaper rubber hoses can be used, which are simply interconnected by special latches consisting of a “ruff” on the one hand and spring-loaded latches on the other, and placed on top of the ground. Before the fall, the entire structure is dismantled and hides in the hozblok.
Summer is not removable
When implementing such a system, plastic pipes for the dacha water supply system are buried to a shallow depth so that people do not stumble over them, and are connected by special fittings for connecting pipes, and only water intake valves are brought out. A very important point in this case is the need to create a small tilt in the direction of the main line and installation in the lowest place of the drain valve.
This will allow water to be drained into the winter to avoid breaking the system.
Winter
If you want to have water supply in the house, and not just for watering crops, then you need to equip the system thorough. To do this, care should be taken that it does not freeze in the winter.
To do this, you can use the following options:
- To dig a trench with a depth that will be below the level of soil freezing, which is 1.5-2 meters. But, firstly, it is not so easy, and secondly, it is not even possible to go deeper to that level everywhere.
- Restrict the depth of 60-80 cm, but at the same time to insulate the pipe with expanded clay, mineral wool or foam.
Tip: in case of choosing the insulation of the system, it is recommended to use the sandwich construction. In it, the water pipe is threaded into a thicker insulating material and a bellows. This will reduce the depth of the trench to 30 cm.
Conclusion
In fact, the creation of suburban water supply boils down to drilling a well and laying the pipes themselves along a route convenient for you. Everything is quite affordable to perform on their own.
The video in this article will introduce you to additional materials. Successful implementation of your plumbing system!