Last Wednesday, my wife and I notice that there is a leak coming out in between the sections of the sidewalk outside the house. I says "oh, it must be from the neighbor draining her pool." Two days pass, and it seems weird that the neighbor (who is out of town) would still be draining her pool. "That looks weird." So we check on Friday, and it is gushing out through the same place and where the wooden board to separate the sections is now missing. GREAT. It ran on Friday like that, and Saturday in the afternoon, I say "this is weird. I will turn off the valve at the meter to see what is up." So when I do, the water leak stops. So to save on water, I turn off the valve. I notice that the gauge runs fast... so I instruct my wife how to open and close it so that she can get water whenever she needs ONLY. Oh, sh*t. It's INSIDE the meter, so I know for a fact that it's my responsibility--or so I thought. I called the Water department of the CLAY M.U.D., and they come out while my wife is also out and I am at work, and they leave a note saying we DON'T have a leak, and they say my neighbor has a leak. My wife calls me back and says "I don't understand this note... it says we DON'T have a leak?" I tell her to call them back. When the technician comes, he says: "The water isn't leaking, ma'am, I don't see a leak" so my wife opens the valve, and the dummy goes: "Oh... heck, the valve was closed... I thought it was open when I came"--smart, huh . My wife was all , but the Water guy says that it is OUR plumber line after he inspects his side of the meter. Fine. So now, I says to myself and wife, "well, we'll have to call a plumber and have him check the leak... we have no choice." So I called a buddy... we start digging... we find the line from the meter directed toward the house, and so we notice it doesn't come out on the other side of the sidewalk. We're all . WTF? We can't find it. We open the valve again, we hear gushing still under the sidewalk. We turn off the shut off inside and we proceed to dig AROUND the meter and around where it's supposed to come out. To make a very long story short, we come to find out that the PVC piping is EMBEDDED into the sidewalk. We're all "WTF?!?!?!?! We're going to have to break the sidewalk!!!" We found that all the rain had caused for the concrete to settle, thus breaking the pipe going through the sidewalk. That sucked big time. I now know that the entire PVC to my house from the meter is UNDER/INSIDE concrete. My question to you folks is... I know I may have made a mistake by starting to dig myself but, hey... I need to take a shower and my girls need to go peeps and we need flushing... do I have a case to tell the builder: "Hey, mo' fo's, ya'll built this thing wrong... how in the heck do you leave the pipe ENCRUSTED onto the sidewalk!" ?? I have left a message for the builders' customer service department and am waiting for them to call. What else can I do?
Whew... for a moment there, i thought your response would have been: Call these guys: [image of Mario and Luigi - Mario Bros.] ^ I do NOT have a problem of abusing smileyticons, thank you very much.
everytime I hear the word encrusted, I think of a thick layer of dried crusty poop on some white underwear.
Now, why would I do that? Mario and Luigi were probably terrible plumbers...that's why they were spending so much of their time saving the princess, because nobody ever called them... Blame it on the drain that was cloggin', cloggin' Blame it on the faucet that drip drips all night When hairballs, grease, and goo Won't let the water through Blame it on the drain, yeah yeah..
I say move the trailer home to another lot. actually Swoly has a nice home, he's come a long way from the dirt homes in Mexico
