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As those of you who've been reading this LJ for a few years might remember, we've had a couple of floods, some leaking into the basement, some from the basement. So when I heard water rushing in a pipe down there with no obvious reason, that carried on running after we shut it off at the mains, I got antsy and called in the city. They came yesterday and confirmed there is a leak in the main line running to the street. They came back this morning and with this machine dug a hole down and said it's on our side so we have to deal with it. They shut off the water to stop gallons more leaking into the soil and I'm waiting for a plumber now. I filled the baths and lots of buckets.
The only tiny shred of good news is that we won't be charged for all the water wasted as it's happening on the other side of the meter.
The city man said he thought it was all happening under the basement floor, right where it comes in, so to start there, dig up the concrete and hopefully it can be fixed there. Otherwise, we'll have to dig up all the front garden and replace the old copper pipe down there with plastic; six, seven thousand dollars or more.
And the insurance company said it isn't covered. Meep.
Cross your fingers for us.
ETA Man came, I okayed it to all be dug up (5,200 to replace all pipe, 1900 to do exploratory dig in basement with no guarantee there isn't more than one leak; no brainer). He said no reason not to turn water back on and he's booked us in for early next week. Got to get permits and such.
Sigh. Could be worse, I guess.
The only tiny shred of good news is that we won't be charged for all the water wasted as it's happening on the other side of the meter.
The city man said he thought it was all happening under the basement floor, right where it comes in, so to start there, dig up the concrete and hopefully it can be fixed there. Otherwise, we'll have to dig up all the front garden and replace the old copper pipe down there with plastic; six, seven thousand dollars or more.
And the insurance company said it isn't covered. Meep.
Cross your fingers for us.
ETA Man came, I okayed it to all be dug up (5,200 to replace all pipe, 1900 to do exploratory dig in basement with no guarantee there isn't more than one leak; no brainer). He said no reason not to turn water back on and he's booked us in for early next week. Got to get permits and such.
Sigh. Could be worse, I guess.