Redland1
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Hello.I Had the City stop By while I was on a business trip and told my wife that the house has a leak at 1.5 gallons a minute.What would be the process of me figuring out where the leak is? Thanks in advance.
There is not a shutoff valve.It is more complicated than connecting to the water heater. Do you have a whole house shut off valve in the house? If you do, then you have to now backtrack that line to the hole you dug. That backtrack could be under the garage floor. Since you are in Texas maybe it is in that outside wall of the garage, but I doubt it. You have an expansion tank(blue) above the water heater. You might have a pressure reducing valve nearby which also is part of the backtrack. The key here is that the supply line from your hole near the driveway has to go to the water heater and the rest of the house for cold water. Once you figure out these paths you then know what to replace. Hopefully the supply line comes out near the water heater and then has two branches. One to the cold and the other to the water heater. Running a new line is good, but the key is not to have it ever freeze.
Since you are making changes, add one.There is not a shutoff valve.
I don't know about the frost situation is. I also don't know if you should have a sheath for the pipe to pass through. I would think good practices would have a sheath.
If you want to keep the pipe outside buried, you could drill a hole in the slab. Dig under the slab a bit from outside. So I am thinking of trenching to the left side of the house, and not use what is under the slab already. Is that what you were thinking? I wonder what caused the existing pipe to leak.
Good idea.I temporarily hooked it up this way until I can get some quotes or figure out a permanent solution that I can do myself.
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