Small water leak adds up to big bill
Sunday, February 11th, 2007After some effort, was able to get all of the broken old bits out of the way with the help of a blowtorch, saws-all (gotta love power tools) and two heavy duty pipe wrenches. This was the first point in the operation that I began to think I might actually be capable of fixing this problem without digging up the front yard and replacing the entire thing with a new pipe as the plumbers had suggested would be required. They also mentioned that, provided I had dug then entire trench to a depth of 6 inches below the pipe, and 24 inches wide before they came out, it would still cost at least $600 to replace the pipe.
