[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by ton80

Brian, whether you agree with Sumter County on irrigation piping or not, they require you to reroute irrigation around patios and birdcages. Tinker , Altavia, and I have had that experience. All three prospective builders for my birdcage made it a point to clarify who would do the re-routing. They wanted a lot of money to do it as an incentive for the owner to get an irrigation guy to do it.
Also, as Altavia mentioned, the irrigation lines do not go under the driveway at my house also.

The code you referenced is blank as to any code for irrigation Chapter 14. So in my estimation, Sumter County can specify what they believe is a correct standard. I have no experience with other counties.

If you add a patio or birdcage etc., I hope you check with your local building officials.

You're 100% right. A local building official can basically require anything they want, whether it makes sense or not. If I had a dollar for every time a building official was wrong, but we still had to do it, I'd be rich.

I am curious and tomorrow I'm going to ask a Code Compliance Consultant who works for me, I'm baffled as to how and why this is an issue in Sumter County.

[Altavia]

Originally Posted by ton80

Brian, whether you agree with Sumter County on irrigation piping or not, they require you to reroute irrigation around patios and birdcages. Tinker , Altavia, and I have had that experience. All three prospective builders for my birdcage made it a point to clarify who would do the re-routing. They wanted a lot of money to do it as an incentive for the owner to get an irrigation guy to do it.
Also, as Altavia mentioned, the irrigation lines do not go under the driveway at my house also.

The code you referenced is blank as to any code for irrigation Chapter 14. So in my estimation, Sumter County can specify what they believe is a correct standard. I have no experience with other counties.

If you add a patio or birdcage etc., I hope you check with your local building officials.

Had the same requirement in NC.

My guess is too many ding dongs patched connections under cement (that failed later ) rather than running a single pipe.

[BigDawgInLakeDenham]

Why haven't any of you know it alls asked the obvious??? How does anyone living in TV have a house that is "way far away" from anything???