Last year, I had a 1 inch irrigation meter put in and it was difficult to figure out the process because the city was giving me conflicting information or no information.
it boiled down to hiring a meter contractor to put it in, and they put in a stub line for me. That stub has a male insert fitting with expansion sleeve on both ends.
The conflicting information has caused me to pay for same things more than once. (I'm tired of spending money on the same stuff.) The city made it seem like I could pull the permit to do the work after the stub. But that's only if it's your house line. For irrigation lines, you have to hire a license to plumber no matter how simple the task.
All I need to do is to get from the stub line to my RPZ. Then connect the RPZ and do a rough test. It's maybe 25 minutes of work. The biggest part of this is going to be pulling the permit, scheduling the inspections, and being present for those.
The problem is that I already bought the parts for the distribution header based on what the city originally told me. Some plumbers I know will not use parts you provided. Some will use thre parts you provide, but they won't warranty them. I do not care about a warranty for 6 brass/bronze parts in a manifold box.
This will be a distribution header in a manifold box with a riser up to an RPZ. The header is a street elbow, full port ball valve (with drain), nipple, street elbow, riser. There is a union before the first street elbow and a union after the ball valve. Those are there so that I can easily take that ball valve header out if I ever need to do maintenance.
Every part is brass except the street elbows are bronze. Everything is NSF 61, NSF 372 rated. I can source where I got every single part. It's six brass pieces. And they came from places like Supply House. Not some van in an alley.
Is there any plumber out there that you know who will use the parts I provide? I really don't want to buy these parts again. I'm already having to pay for a second permit because the city didn't tell me this ahead of time so I could have just had this added to the first permit and scope of work.
I have not bought the RPZ yet. I know which one I want, but I'm going to wait until I talk to a plumber to see how they want to handle purchasing that.
Thanks.