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I have never been successful at removing a fitting from PVC. The adhesives work great. You can always hope the installer did not glue the joints correctly and the intersections can be broken apart. Using something like a flat blade screw drive, see if you can break the female off of the male portion. If that does not work, heating is an option but the wires make that not practical. You may have to just dig down a ways and cut the existing pipe and use a coupling. When you reinstall, is is possible to not glue the vertical intersection so it can move up and down with the ground?
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Use an expansion joint made for PVC conduit and mount it vertically.
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The thawing and freezing of the soil probably caused this. NEC now requires expansion fittings when frost heave may affect the conduit.
Interduct makes a split conduit repair kit. You don't have a lot of room to install an expansion fitting so I see the same result with any repair.
But, the LB was just there to make the turn and enter the building. UF can enter the building as is. NEC says you must protect the conductors from physical damage.
I would clean up the pieces, find a piece of conduit that would surround the one you have, cute a slot to feed the UF into it and strap to the wall loosely.
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Thanks for the suggestions!
This has been like this for a couple of years (I just had it taped with foil tape until now), so I'm guessing that the conduit has settled about as much as it will for a while.
I didn't know there was such a thing as an expansion fitting. I was just going to use a rubber coupling, but I'll look into that expansion coupling.
Thanks!
Someone else I had talked to suggested the groove and chisel method to remove that female fitting (wait, that's not a politically incorrect term to use now, is it?).
Sounds like the best option, but I will need to be careful with it nonetheless, or I will have a lot more work to do.
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From your photo I don't see any way to install a junction box or LB, AND an expansion fitting. You mention freeze/thaw cycle. Without a way to accommodate frost heave I see the same thing happening to any repair.
Consider foregoing the LB and expansion fitting. Use instead a flexible pvc conduit elbow.
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If you decide to go this route, I would form the bend at about 85° instead of 90° so if the soil experiences frost heave it brings the angle to about 90-95°.