Odd, thought I had mad a lengthy post here, but must have been a different forum, about a week ago. So here goes...Bought a ranch brick on a crawl, Indiana clay soil. Issue is because of code, rather lack of, no perimeter tile was put around footer. Being that the elevation is darn near flat of back and sides (front does have a nice slope to street) when it rains the water settles around perimeter and seeps into crawl. Also, because of "lack of" code, the sump pit, located in one corner, is just a pit with some weep holes. No piping run into the pit, to rid of any water. There is water under the crappy plastic in some areas over the pea gravel. This is an unhealthy environment for the TGI trusts, obviously. I don't like the idea of water submerging my concrete footers. So the house has been this way for its 10 yrs age. To remedy this, I can either #1, reposition the sump pit more mid of of crawl, dig in some drains, which because the support structure footers also, run the entire length of crawlspace, a company would have to undermine the foots for a 4" pipe in at least 3 different places to get the water to the pit, then have to have the sump most likely running frequently, and always the chance of it failing, and so-forth. #2, have a perimeter pvc pipe layed level on gravel, just below the footer of exterior, and having it drain to daylight at front of house near street. "Most" of the foundation for crawl footer would be able to be accessed. They would also powerwash and seal the 8" blocks to prevent any more seeping. The downspouts would also be connected in pvc and ran separately to front. I have all but ruled out, there is hydraulic pressure pushing water into the crawl as a basement was just dug directly next door. It sat for a week and stayed dry. So to me, dealing with putting the fix in the crawl, is just masking the issue, which is water is coming in from outside. It'd be roughly, another $2k for the exterior tile. Either are salty as is mostly labor intensive. This will be hired out (that point isnt for discussion) I then will encapsulate, sometime next year to keep this high humdity pit, from eventually rotting the wood. Any opinions here, on my 2 remedies, and which you would do? I have given this much thought and have a few crawlspace doctors have a look. They all wanted to fix from the inside. (how they make their $) My 1st gut instinct (and one other contractor/builder) came immediately to the conclusion...repair from the outside and drain to daylight.

I will be threading a 3/4" male PVC adapter into a female brass tee, to feed my sprinkler control valves. I've heard of different "best" methods for sealing plastic threads into metal. It appears my choices are: 1. 4 wraps of Teflon tape around the male plastic threads, and nothing else 2. 2 wraps of Teflon tape PLUS pipe dope formulated for plastic and metal 3. Pipe dope by itself (I have Rectorseal Tplus2 with PTFE) This connection will always have water pressure on it, and will be underground. How would you pros and more experienced amateurs seal the threads? And again, this is PVC, not CPVC.