Yuck!

Bummer! Don't waste time bailing, swing by and borrow my sump pump.

Good to know major disaster averted. Has me thinking now. My house built in the '60s with copper pipes. Wonder if I should start thinking about replacing them? A year after I moved in I started noticing a 'water running' sound whenever my ear was close to the water meter. Kind of let it slide for a while since the sensitive little red pointer on the meter that shows you if you have a leaky tap or something wasn't moving. Eventually it bugged me enough that I investigated & found a wet spot in my front yard. Started digging down & sure enough ended up with a pool in the hole I dug. Front yard slopes down to the Avenue & I dug down a couple of feet before I figured out I wasn't going to reach the feed pipe digging by hand. Called contractor & he ended up digging down almost 10 feet until the pipe was uncovered. Repaired it with a pvc fitting. Apparently the fill they used in my yard had a lot of trash in it & a piece of metal resting on the copper pipe appears to have caused the corrosion. Dissimilar metals don't play nice when in contact over the years. It was a pinhole as well, but with city pressure at 120-130 psi I imagine a fair bit of water was lost through there. No idea how long the hole was there, could well have been there already when I bought the place in 2004. I think I had it repaired in '05 or '06. Also makes one wonder how many other leaks there are in a city or municipal system that go undetected for years.

The temporary fix is in place. It was a gear clamp over a little strip of rubber lol. I felt like a dumbass; I had a fix laying around the hole time.

So it's stopped leaking until they can get it properly fixed. Thanks for the offer greg I ended up siphoning it to the laundry tub with a garden hose. Never thought I'd miss all my pumps and hoses for TWO reasons :razz:

This actually does remind me that last year a copper pipe leading into our water meter sprung a pin hole leak as well. The rest of our house is that plastic piping but the piping around the meter and into the meter itself was copper and that's what sprung a leak. The meter was the responsibility of the city so I just called them up and they came and replaced the meter.

What a mess. Good thing for smart thinking on your part. That pic of the paint stretching is unreal.

If I ever need to run an ro/di again, I think I know of 4 possible pipes to connect to though :lol:

Paying for your own water is so over-rated!

why not do a I dont want to use this F word here,:neutral: ok here is goes.


FRESH WATER AND DO OSCARS, or something

Brett, I havent been on here for awhile and just found out about your shutdown. Really sorry to hear man. Hope things are alright with family though!

Glad the fix will get worked out!

In our house, all the piping is the new plastic stuff, but the connections to and from the well, pressure tank, and house supply, are all copper. Guess where the leak happened? In the copper ofcourse. (Right between well and pressure tank) This new plastic stuff sure seems reliable so far. I dont hear of it leaking often, and repairing it is a lot easier. (I guess its not 'new' but its more recently used)

Cheers,

Chris

Yeah and thieves won't bother to jack plastic piping from construction sites either lol.

As for the shutdown at least i got it out of my system and for good this time! went far too big without budget or time to keep it. You can't keep an addict down for long tho can you? :biggrin: