Future shop build advice

Got my work cut out for me this weekend. Running power, water and Ethernet. When I built the house, I buried a 2" electrical conduit and a 1" PVC dummy waterline under my carport skirt for future shop. I didn't know at the time that my water would be chocked full of brown metal tasting iron. I tapped that line to be chicken pen/garden water during covid when I was stuck at home a few years ago. It ties in to my main line off the well and has hella pressure, so I'm not repurposing it. I'm running 2/0-2/0-1-4 mhf through the electrical conduit, 3/4" PEX to two new freeze proof hydrants off the PVC line. Then running a new 3/4 PEX (good iron free water) and direct burial cat6 in a separate trench from the other end of the house this weekend. Im a cheap ass so I'm only renting a trencher once. Gotta get it all in at once. My dad is a hard core note taker, every time we bury a line at work he has us pull a tape and triangulate every elbow or any kind of change. It pays off. I do the same now and was able to locate all my buried pipes right away. Digging here is a dream, I have found maybe 3 rocks in the 5yrs I've been here. Growing up 5 miles away near a river and digging through nothing but clay and river rock has made me really appreciate this beautiful sandy loam I live on.
 
Also picked up 50' of ezflow today for my septic lines. As luck would have it, a friend happens to be the manager at the local plumbing supply house that is the area distributor for infiltrator and got it for me at near cost.
 
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Got my ass kicked pretty good out here today.
60ft of 2" conduit, 350" of 3/4" PEX and 250" of Ethernet. I'm whooped.

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Not real proud of this joint. Should have trencher a little straighter to it but a crepe myrtle was in the way. I think I got an inch of overlap and a lot of glue so maybe it will be fine. It's a straight pull otherwise.


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DSM Turbos said:
Doing a roof on it isn't going to be cheap, and it's going to still be smaller than I want it to be. Really debating on knocking it down and building something bigger if we plan to stay a whil
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Zoning isn't going to allow you to go bigger
 
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