Plastic main and service pipe is well accepted in the industry and has some advantages. But it also has a major disadvantage compared to iron pipe or copper tubing: It is difficult to find and detect once buried.Plastic pipe is nonconductive, unlike iron, steel and copper, which can be located fairly easily with traditional pipe locators and metal locators.Here are some tips.1. Tracer wire — Tracer wire has been used for quite some time as a tool to allow a traditional pipe locator to work on plastic pipe. However, in the early years, there was no special wire, and most engineers just
