Don’t Rip Out the Shut Off Valve
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- underground water line repair
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Good looking ol 90s ford. That's exceptional work by the city guys on a weekend. That was very quick repair. The good news is all of that repair work will last a long time now.
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Excellent job and video Brock ❤😊😮
Long time Plumber here in Kansas City, that’s a $3500 job minimum. Look at what you saved your daughter....good job!
Yeah, I spent less than $100 by already having some stuff and doing it myself
18" frost line is awesome!!! Ours here is 5'. Great job Brock!
I did the same at my place in December last year. Used Pex and loved it. I had old lines and decided it was much easier to run a whole new line than to locate a leak in the old line and then have to worry about failure in another location later. Nice work!
An 18" frost line? 😲 At my location on the Palmer Divide between Denver and Colorado Springs, and at 7,500' in elevation, the official frost line is around 40". We have to double your 18" and add an other 4", or just go with 48" to be on the safe side.
If you put s tarp down to put the dirt on, it'll make clean up a whole lot easier.
yep, Ive done it that way for 35 years
Did you tried running the new pipe through the old one
You did a good job taking care of your daughter’s water problem.
It's what family is about. I'm sure she does stuff for them. It's nice seeing parents helping their kids out with more than just throwing money at them
Maybe consider insulating the pipe under the stairs or you might have an issue with freezing in the winter
I have this problem and trying to decide where to start. Live on wooded acres that initially had a well hooked up to the house about 50 feet out. When the city came up the road offering water lines the former owner had it brought up to the house. That connection runs through a lot of trees approximately the length of a football field. 70 yo female and on SS. I’m wondering if I shouldn’t just have the house back on the well. I won’t be able to afford that kind of repair. 😭
Good morning Brock. Outstanding work and video as usual. God bless and have a wonderful day. 👍👍🙂
Thank you sir
Thanks for the follow up plumbing video. I’ve never seen that black pipe get so rubbery and flexible like that. Great job with the fix! You definitely won’t have to worry about it any more. Have a great Sunday!!
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That black plastic pipe is often used in residential wells, but I wouldn't think you'd want to use it for city pressures though. I remember when I was a teenager my church got on city water, and before that there was black pipe like that connecting the church to the well. The city hooked onto that black pipe and it started springing leaks.
That black stuff is polybutylene pipe. There are no fittings that will fit it. Best thing to do is to bypass it like you have. My Dad and I both worked for a plastic pipe company. I know it very well. Useless.
I hate plumbing. That is all.
No those city utility workers don't get paid well...at all
Just imagine if you didn't have the equipment that you have, it'd have been a pretty pricey repair - grats on saving a ton of money! (let's try to not think about what that tractor costs, tho, k?) :p
I suspect the bad pipe was Polybutylene. There were two class actions suits against Shell Oil that resulted in a $1.7B settlement. There are several failure modes for the pipe, but the largest is caused by chlorine degradation. There were also issues with improper installation, although as a result of the specification, not the work of the plumbers (as I understand it).
Great info. Dad was telling me about it but couldn’t remember the name
Ah you have a joe line
Howdy Brodk! You guys did a great job. Lots of older waterlines and meter connections get brittle and as long as they aren't touched, they hold up. For a while anyway. Only suggestion I have is you might want to wrap that PEX in some pipe insulation where it goes through the PVC pipe under the stairs.Thanks for sharing 🤠
I'd encase that line inside of another line like drain pipe for protection. It's exposed right now, why not take the extra step. If it's in place you most likely can pull the water line without digging if needed in the future.
That would be a better way to do it but I am not willing to spend any money on it. When the house was built in 1967 they put this low quality plumbing in without any protection. It lasted 55 years
Pex tubing is rated for direct burial. What I put in was better than original
@@RockhillfarmYT gotcha 👌
It's crazy to me not having a 3.5 frost line 🤪
Most years here where I live in Texas, the ground never freezes at all.
All water limes are min 48” in Northern, IL
At 4 gallon per minute of a leak for that long of a time you should have had a pond forming somewhere, I hope that leak wasn't washing dirt out from under the foundation of the house. I hate to see you use that galvanized elbow because they will rot from the inside and if it's under ground it will rot from the outside as well, I'd say you'll be replacing that in about 8 years. I hate to be a keyboard know-it-all but consider replacing that elbow with brass. stainless or plastic before you close up the ditch. Brock on buddy
The guys from the city gave me a brass elbow before I put it together
If you can't find an elbow local take a look at McMaster-Carr, they will have 99.9% of anything you will ever need and will get it to you quick and will normally beat Grainger prices by a lot
@@RockhillfarmYT Awesome!! You breaking that connection and having to call them guys may have been part of a bigger plan so you didn't burry a future problem. God works in mysterious ways
Forgot to mention in earlier comment to take pictures now that you have the 811 markings. Good to have them for reference with future projects.
Good tip
Morning
It wouldn't be a proper plumbing job without a geyser or two!
Holy moly 15+ pints a minute .
Best you can do with what you had there. Probably best that the meter pipe failed when it did. Likely to have gone out very soon anyway. Do you still have the trencher? Was thinking that might have worked pretty good. Good luck finishing it up with no more "adventure!"
I do still have it. I almost brought it for this. The narrow trenching bucket on the backhoe would’ve definitely been a better idea.
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Brock - you’re swimming outside the “lane” there some brother🙏🏼 Owning more land in MO than I do in IL I understand these types of fixes will work in more rural area cities, but for the rest of us, there’s no way you could get a permit to run a water line off the city main without a plumbing certification or license. Looks like you did a great job, and I see several others already agree, however unless any of them is a an actual plumber how could we know any different? Not trying to be negative against you brother Brock, but there’s a reason plumbers are a professional trade.
Maybe before you bury it you have a plumber come
Inspect it for any any small details you might have missed👍🏻🙏🏼😎🇺🇸
I would never live anywhere that has rules like that. Everybody can’t afford a plumber. I believe that good enough is good enough.
Do I own the property or does the city own the property? If they own on the property they make the rules and they can fix the plumbing. Since I own the property I’ll just do what I want.
Nothing I do would hold up if I lived in or near a city.
I didn’t even get a permit to put up my Quonset Hut. I don’t know if it was graded properly. I did the wiring myself, which I know for a fact was not up to code.
I could not care any less. It either works or it doesn’t work.
Underground utility work will put some hair on your chest. I would have recommended using a piercing tool instead of open trenching.
Thanks for the feedback, and thank you for offering to help. I didn’t want to inconvenience you
@@RockhillfarmYT all good-- looks like you guys are rained out today anyways.
@@davidmays2161 yes, rained out and a birthday party to go to.
They make really good money