How To Protect Foundation Plumbing Pipes?
If you install any underground plumbing pipes, in your
concrete building foundation, you will need to protect them, from the
concrete. You can use a variety of products and the most common of them
will be a Styrofoam wrapping that can be purchased at most plumbing
supply stores.
Let's start with the waste pipes, that are made out of plastic. The
concrete could actually start to put pressure on the plastic pipes as
the concrete starts to expand and this pressure could actually damage
your new waste pipes.
You don't need to wrap all of the plastic waste pipes, only the parts of
the waste pipes that will be exposed or in direct contact any concrete,
but you do need to protect every copper water supply line that will be
buried under the ground or exposed to the concrete, with a plastic
sleeve. These products can be purchased again at most building supply or
plumbing supply stores.
If these pipes aren't protected properly, you could find yourself within
a short time, repairing the pipes that are either inside of your
concrete foundation or buried underneath your concrete foundation.
Either way, this isn't going to be a good thing.
You definitely need to wrap a plastic sleeve around the water supply
pipes that are going to be buried or in direct contact with the
concrete. This is a must and most building departments will require your
plumbing pipes to be wrapped, before it they will sign off on your rough
foundation plumbing inspection.
However, for the waste pipes, you can actually use cardboard to protect
them. If you're short on funds, why not grab some cardboard boxes,
dismantle them and start using cardboard to wrap the pipes, with a
little duct tape.
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