...must encased in concrete or slurry. As you probably know, current products and procedures aren't always successful in preventing conduit from floating. Keeping the conduit in place and from floating is a challenge, one that can be time consuming, costly, aggravating and dangerous. But there is a solution. It's the patented Sta-Down conduit retaining device (CRD).

Sta-Down CRD secures PVC conduit in the trench, while it's being encased in concrete or slurry. It does so without steel stakes, EMT or tie wire coming in contact with the conduit. "Contractors, in the past, would use whatever they could find, steel stakes, EMT, rebar or even cement blocks to counter the floating," notes Dan Evans, owner, Devtron Diversified, manufacturer of the Sta-Down CRD. "This product solves that problem."

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