Pipes must be arranged horizontally in order to avoid their damage when they are been transported by trucks. Fasteners must not produce scratches nor cracks in the pipe's surface. In order to save money in transport services and packaging, the pipes could be carried one inside another, of course, whenever the pipe's diameters allow it. To protect the connectors, the pipes must be placed horizontally. Flanges, projections, acute angles parts and any kind of edges that stand out from the pipe's surfaces, are not allowed.

 

Pipes must be inspected individually after being unloaded from the truck. A designated operator must check for damages and fissures, even though the pipes have been already tested before in the factory. Damages or fissured pipes must be rejected and its use is forbidden. Pipes are commonly distributed in several ways: individually, by mean of ropes, two or more pipes together, and using pallets.

 

While some pipes are been unloaded from the truck, the others, which remains in the truck's floor, must be strongly fixed, avoiding possible displacements. Handling properties of PVC pipes are improved due to its very little weight, being not necessary to drag them. In order to avoid permanent damages, the pipes must be carried on carefully, no violent movements should be performed with them and shocks against hard and cutting objects must be prevented.

 

If the storage zone is next to the working place, you could save money in piping transportation. The store place must be a ventilated one, like a shed; when using a storehouse with a roof made of duck, suitable ventilation of the top zone must be guaranteed. The storehouse's floor must be perfectly plane, in order to keep the pipes free of deformations. Fulfilled the above mention conditions, the tubes will be piled up; these stacks should not be taller than 1,5 meters and the top pipe must be correctly fixed using ropes. You should not store the pipes for long periods of time. Moreover, they must be carried out to the working place only when is completely necessary.

 

To determine the conduit's depth, a corresponding plan must be follow. Please be aware that you should add an additional depth to let the pipe to accommodate itself on the conduit's bed. Tubes must not lie directly on the conduit's bed, but on a thin layer made of some dense material of a height non-greater than 10 meters. Moreover, they must be covered from their top part to a height of 1 meter underneath the level of the ground. At the level of pipe's top generatrix, the conduit's diameter should be approximately 0,5 meters bigger than the pipe's diameter. In conduits built by hand is not mandatory that walls be perfectly vertical. Please be noticed that the earth that has been excavated could slip down to the conduit, so that, it should be removed from the conduit's borderline.
Finally, it is very important to keep the conduit's bed cleanest as possible before proceeding to install the pipe, by taking off any kind of stones, tree roots, rocks, etc.

To obtain a perfect join, some strict requirements have to be followed. The most important aspects to be covered by a good join are: an efficient tightness, flexibility, fast positioning and easy manufacturing.

 

- Clean the ring's housing and then insert it.
- Verify the chamfer on pipe's end (tongue) and then write the appropriate length in it.
- Insert the pipe's end previously lubricated, making use of an emulsion water-soap or other non-acid lubricant. Warning: do not use mineral greases. Please, take care of linearity during the assembly.

- Polish the connector and the tongue with emery paper.
- Clean and remove the grease from every component.
- Paint both ends with the adhesive using a brush. Advise: Paint following a longitudinal line using the exact quantity of adhesive
- Insert the tongue into the connector. Torsion efforts are not desired.
- Take off the adhesive's excess when both parts have been correctly joined.
- Immobilize the piping during an hour.

Note: Only use adhesives recommended by the piping and connection's manufacturers or adhesives than comply with IRAM standards.

Piping covering are one the most important things to be considered when are dealing with them, so that, it must be carefully supervised. We are not speaking about a simple task like common people could consider it. Piping covering is not just filling the conduit with the escavated earth. The filling earth has to offer a hard and continuous support all along the tube's length (including joints and connections). The filling material directly in contact with the piping and until a uniform height of 15 cm over its superior generatrix, must be constituted by sifted fine or sandy earth (sand preferably) that does not contain elements of greater diameter than 3mm. Once the piping is lying on the conduit's bed, the covering procedure begins. Their flanks are filled up until covering half of the pipe and then, the earth is pushed against the pipe's flanks and pushed to the bottom part of the pipe using a shovel. The cover has 15 cm over the pipe's superior generatrix. The compactation have to be done on that filling material that does not lie over the pipe, providing the piping with hard lateral supports, increasing thus its strength to resist the earth's stresses. The final cover is performed using the former excavated earth, taking into account that this earth is free of big particles (less than 10 mm), like stones and animals or vegetable's garbage.
This final covers is made of several interlaced layer of compressed earth (no more than 30 cm each one).