We finally have a steady supply of water to the barn and what a project that was. In November a crew (plumber, electrician, excavator) arrived to work on the water.
The excavator had to dig a trench 3 feet deep from the bungalow we rent out to the barn, and then into the barn to the location of the waterers, a distance of a hundred feet or so. When he finished the trench, we realized that he was a few feet out at the starting point, so he had to then dig some more.
Once the trench was dug, the plumber laid pipe in the bottom of the trench all the way into the barn and to the electric waterers.
The next step was to wrap the pipes that rise from underground to the water bowls in heat tape, and then connect the pipes to the well head inside the bungalow.
The electrician & plumber hooked it all up (along with badly needed additional lighting) and got the system working.
We backfilled the trench ourselves.
During the first real cold snap, we found that the heat tape was trying to heat the whole barn, and of course wasn't up to the job so the above ground stretches of the pipes froze. Back the plumber comes to thaw things out, and wrap the heat tapes in insulation and plastic.
His instructions to us are to box in the above ground water lines and fill the boxes with insulation.
This weekend's project.
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