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Message started by springman on 01/07/16 at 16:08:08

Title: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by springman on 01/07/16 at 16:08:08

Yes, I took a day of vacation today. What great fun did I have planned for myself you might wonder. This!!! Yep, broken water pipe from the meter to the house. Boy was this fun.

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by Kris01 on 01/07/16 at 18:42:20

Your water meter uses PVC pipe and is connected to the house? Mine is at the street a foot underground and I think it uses a metal pipe. I've never seen a setup like yours. Think positive - at least you got it fixed. Too bad it was on your side of the meter though.

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by Serowbot on 01/07/16 at 21:22:37

Man,.. you lucky duck...
Some folks get all the luck... cold, wet,... and muddy!... ;D

I feel better about my boring week... :-?

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by verslagen1 on 01/07/16 at 21:28:54

I'd say it's time to replace it all.
unless somebody hit it with a shovel.

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by gizzo on 01/07/16 at 23:58:33

Bummer, sucky way to waste a day off! I hit mine with the lawnmower a couple months ago. That sucked too.

But, I had a few days off too, so since you asked I went down the coast camping and glider flying. Good times.

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by raydawg on 01/08/16 at 03:50:41

Those PVC G-couplings are for only a temporary solution.
The rubber o-rings will start to seep, or the jam nut cracks from years of stress.....
You should use a solvent fitting.
I was a plumbing contractor for decades before I started building commercial aircraft.

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by Art Webb on 01/08/16 at 06:43:02

Agreed with Ray
I'm not a plumber, and never will be, but I always use solvent with PVC
my portable I plan to plumb with PEX, if i ever get it on my property

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by old_rider on 01/08/16 at 07:43:15

073E253F7C7D4C0 wrote:

I am in north florida and ALL of our piping is pvc (even sewer and septic)... from the street to the house. To me its much easier to fix/replace than metal just have to make sure everything is CLEAN.... LOL.... which sometimes can be a pain.

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by springman on 01/08/16 at 18:32:28

Yep. I heard the compression fitting would only be good for a few years but the hole kept on filing up with water making it difficult to glue it. The pipe actually did not break, but rather the cement on the coupling gave out on one end. So I just cut it off and put in the compression fitting. The same thing happened at a different joint of the same pipe in June and I did re-cement that one. If another one fails any time soon I may just replace the whole thing like Versy recommended. If it will all just last a few more years, long enough to get my youngest kid through college, I may even be able to afford to pay someone to take care of it. ;D

Title: Re: What did you do on your vacation day?
Post by KennyG on 01/08/16 at 20:03:08

A few years back, in Lititz PA, when municipal water came through I ran the PVC pipe through the rubber tubing that is used for on site wells.

I never had any trouble while living there, bit if I did all I had to do was loosen the PVC pipe at the street and pull it back through the house to work on it or replace it.

As I recall it didn't cost a whole lot for 100 ft of the tubing.

Kenny G