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John Houle: Senior Technical Consultant, PVC Pipe Industry

John Houle holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri and an MBA from the University of Oregon. He has more than 25 years of experience in the plastic pipe industry in applications engineering, market development, forensic analysis, technical writing, and standards development.

PVC Pipe Print Line – Valuable Information for Pipe Installers and Owners

Posted By John Houle on Apr 15, 2014

Each length of PVC pipe is required by its product standard to contain a line of print that describes the pipe.


Print information should be checked at several locations:

  1. At the manufacturing plant to ensure that the correct pipe is being shipped
  2. At the jobsite or storage yard to confirm that the pipe that was purchased is the pipe that has been received
  3. At the trench to ensure the specified pipe is being installed
  4. Any time the pipe is exposed after installation

The attached technical brief explains the details of print requirements and provides an example print line. Click here.