I needed to join a down pipe which went no where in the backyard to the existing piping, to do this obviously I had to dig a trench. I tried to leave it until it had at least rained a bit so that it was at least a little bit soft. I finally got around to digging it last weekend. The long weekend just finishing was going to be when I finished the job but I hit a few snags. Firstly I started cutting the pipe to make the join only to discover the pipe was full of water – because it actually rain up hill. This filled the pipe trench and was a major hurdle. Second minor hurdle was that I found the electrical conduit was directly below the water pipe, electrical is supposed to be 600mm deep & this was about 150mm deep – it could have ended very badly if I had of cut straight through it.

Eventually I got around that and sorted out all the piping and the joints etc, however during this sorting out and overnight we had a significant amount of rain the trench had filled up. It had so much water in it to the point that I need to extend the trench otherwise it was over flowing. I eventually extended the trench about 3 metres and hopefully that will be enough to last me until next weekend.

Below are some photos of my weekend exploits.

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