Flex hose and building codes

[South_Texas_Sun]

Thanks Carl,

I've spent the better part of the morning trying to decrypt the printing on the flex hose they used. Here is the gist of it:

echo sp 1069 BR 6' LA City RR4110 SBCCI 9526 NSF-50 MDCA

I've looked at least 100 google references to different parts of this id string and even on www.plasticpipe.org .....all to no avail.

I've gotten the contractor to try to reroute using schedule 40 PVC but we're putting a pool in solid rock/ground and they've already got the rebar in and tied.

Now I'm fit to be tied......lol........thanks.

[tphaggerty]

Well, my builder used all Flex, directly in dirt. He has been building for 30+ years and says that is what he has always done. I recently dug up some of the flex in which he had run the light fibers for our pool lighting, the stuff looked brand new and will turn away a shovel.

From what I understand (from reading in the old forums) was that the problem with flex was with termites and other critters, not a strength issue. The stuff my builder used is almost impossible to crush. Anyway, we don't have open ground termites where I live in NY (at least not yet), so I'm not concerned.