PVC Electrical Conduit Question

[MountainDon]

Buried electrical conduit is considered a wet location even though it is glued together and buried in dry condition. For that reason all wires/cables installed in the conduit must be "wet" rated. My question is this. Is there a provision of some sort made at a low point to provide drainage? I've never seen such a thing but the question popped into my mind just now.

[glenn kangiser]

Will it provide drainage or a fill point?

I have put in quite a bit of conduit - phone co - power lines etc, and have never seen any provision for drainage - except into manholes etc, but if they flooded they became a major problem water source.

[MountainDon]

Will it provide drainage or a fill point?

That's what I wondered. 

I'll just be sure to glue the joints securely.      If water backs up and flows out the upper end, then I'll worry.

Sometimes I think too much. 

[glenn kangiser]

There you go.

[JRR]

"Analysis Paralysis".  My dear one says I have a chronic case of it!

[glenn kangiser]

Sometimes I stop and think for long periods of time - fits your description, JRR.  Just staring and thinking -saying nothing -- staring blankly off into space.  But the wheels are moving a million miles an hour.

Note that in this period of total seemingly braindead , non-responsive inactivity, I am doing the job of the designer, architect, draftsman and engineer, so I am actually saving tons of money.  Our wives need to learn to recognize this as a period of meditation and light trance of creativity.  Not a lazy braindead stupor.

That is why it may take us a few moments - or minutes to respond as we shift out of that deep inspired thought, to answer a totally unrelated question.  Us guys are like an extremely advanced super computer.

[ScottA]

Us guys are like an extremely advanced super computer.

For some reason I go into sleep mode alot. Maybe that's a form of advanced computing.

[glenn kangiser]

I think so --- sleep mode and Hibernating.

[lockman]

When I had my underground electric ran, they didn't even put any kind of weather head on the conduit where it goes up the pole.