Everything goes wrong in "3"'s right???????

[newls1]

Well, after having a fairly shitty day, I was bringing over a treadmill that I was giving to my neighbor, I look over on the other side of my property, and what do I see.............A FUCKING RIVER!!!! Common sense makes me obviously want to find out where it was coming from...... YUP, YOU GUESSED IT........ THE WATER MAIN!!!! YAAH . What a cluster fuck that was to fix. I called our water authority of course thinking they would fix it...............NOPE! If it was on the side of the main toward the street, then yes, but my leak was on the other side of the main, where all the piping is only PVC???? Why the fuck use PVC piping, I guess from being from up north, and seeing copper piping all over, but I guess this shit is strong. Long story short, the water guy just shut the main valve (Which I of course could have done) and left. I took my dirty ass self to home depot, got 4$ worth of repair materials, and got to work. In 10minutes all was fixed, and I now have water again FTW!!!! What a weird day today was.

Edited October 27, 2009 by newls1

[Namosh]

There's nothing wrong with PVC pipe. I've been plumbing it for years and as long as it is done right it will last forever. When you fixed it did you use primer? And let it set for a couple of hours before turning it back on?

[newls1]

There's nothing wrong with PVC pipe. I've been plumbing it for years and as long as it is done right it will last forever. When you fixed it did you use primer? And let it set for a couple of hours before turning it back on?

PVC seems great. Cant believe its strength. I bought some fast trying cement glue for the PVC, along with primer of course. The bottle said dry time is 20minutes, sets in 30secs. I left the water off for 30 minutes, turned it on, and all seems well for now.

[Namosh]

Good deal. If ya ever want to put in lawn sprinklers now you've got experience!

Edited October 27, 2009 by Namosh

[SQMonte]

No, people die in 3's

[Jared420]

yea i do a good amount of plumbing work pvc is pretty strong when done right. I live in mass tho and our winters would tear that shit up, we use the copper mostly here but some places pvc it just all depends on how much water pressure will be held in the pipes. You dont need to let it dry for that long usually, better to be safe than sorry but sometimes my company will get swimming pool piping jobs and some of those get up to 30-45 psi and I usually give it about 5 minutes and turn it on and I have never had any fitting pop off or any leaks. primer and the cement work together and dry and set real fast.