memagil

memagil t1_izfh7w3 wrote

I had a break in a pipe from my house to my barn too. I thought a lot about how to detect where the leak was. Then i had a contractor working in my basement, unrelated, and he detected a small pinhole leak in a water pipe in the basement. He called me and i told him where the water shutoff was and that i'd be home in an hour. Well he turned "off" the wrong valve and turned ON the water to the barn that had a leak. Needless to say, when i got home there was a huge puddle in front of the barn where the undetected leak revealed itself. I dug the 4' down to find a PVC 90 elbow had collapsed underground. I replaced with brass and all is good now.

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