[R-390] Building Standards

[Renée Deeter]

I think it would be best in the leach field........perfect for vertical 
antennas above....
Renée

Steve & Carol wrote:
> Hi Tisha,
>
> I always find your posts very interesting but putting a ground line into a 
> septic tank?? I wouldn't want to be around during a storm if that blew up!!
>
> 73,
> Steve
> WA2TTP
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tisha Hayes" <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:18 PM
> Subject: [R-390] Building Standards
>
>
>   
>> I built new about 10 years ago and was able to be on the job-site at 3 PM
>> every day. I purchased a code enforcement book (somewhere on the internet,
>> if someone was interested I could go find the darned thing and give you an
>> author), and walked around the house each day with the construction 
>> manager,
>> pointing out mistakes and out of compliance issues.
>>
>> I was able to get the grounding put in place while they were still pouring
>> the footings on the house. Triple coated the basement walls with black
>> asphalt roll on coating, filled the cinderblock walls with a very potent
>> pesticide to prevent termite problems later on, had the builders add
>> hurricane straps on the roof, threaded rod anchors in some of the walls, a
>> fireplace (not on the plans) and paid $300 for a guy to come in and run
>> fiber optic, Ethernet, coax and shielded audio cables to multiple boxes in
>> each room. (20 different drops). I put in fiberglass insulation on the
>> interior walls and copper foil down on the floors upstairs (under the wood
>> flooring) and Tyvek wrapped the entire house.
>>
>> The construction manager was this crazy Cajun from somewhere in the swamps
>> of Louisiana, he dreaded seeing me each day and tried to get his guys to
>> leave before I showed up, so I started arriving early each morning 
>> instead.
>> I hate retrofits after the fact but still have work to do, putting in a 
>> grey
>> water system to a cistern for watering and replacing all the outside door
>> for steel frames.
>>
>> Question: This is an odd one. I am on a septic system, I wonder if anyone
>> has ever thought of dropping a ground into the septic tank (bronze would
>> probably be best). It is always wet and is 10x10x6 so the ground surface
>> area would be 340 square feet of surface area (not counting the top) for a
>> ground (damp concrete is a good conductor). I may try to drop an element
>> into there and hook the Megger to it to see what happens.
>>
>> When I get around to that experiment I will share the data.
>>
>> -- 
>> Ms. Tisha Hayes
>>
>> ----------------
>> "I will not recant the truth. I am corn, not chaff; I will not be blown 
>> away
>> with the wind or burst by the flail. I will survive both."
>> -Walter Milne, 1558
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