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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2217 Spring, Texas Gender:	What did you do on your vacation day? 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.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: What did you do on your vacation day? Reply #1 - 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.
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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: What did you do on your vacation day? Reply #2 - 01/07/16 at 21:22:37 Man,.. you lucky duck... Some folks get all the luck... cold, wet,... and muddy!... I feel better about my boring week...
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: What did you do on your vacation day? Reply #3 - 01/07/16 at 21:28:54 I'd say it's time to replace it all. unless somebody hit it with a shovel.
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gizzo Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiCabbage. It's Savage. Posts: 1318 Australia	Re: What did you do on your vacation day? Reply #4 - 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.
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raydawg Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 11551 pacific northwest Gender:	Re: What did you do on your vacation day? Reply #5 - 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.
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: What did you do on your vacation day? Reply #6 - 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
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Reply #7 - 01/08/16 at 07:43:15

Kris01 wrote 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.

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.

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Reply #8 - 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. Grin

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Reply #9 - 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.

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