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10-24-2012, 04:20 PM
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10-24-2012, 06:20 PM
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Ouch. Good luck man.
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10-25-2012, 04:05 AM
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At my father-in law's apartment, they replaced all the copper pipes in the building. What a big expense. Apparently all the pipes were made by wolverine.
They went out of business because they made faulty thin pipes. Were trying to save money!! Hopefully thats not the case here. Good luck with the cleanup
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10-25-2012, 04:11 AM
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Yuck!
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10-25-2012, 02:42 PM
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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.
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10-25-2012, 03:29 PM
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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 
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