{"id":94,"date":"2009-05-15T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-05-15T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T23:42:19","slug":"fixed-slab-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dan.minear.name\/wordpress\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Fixed Slab Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got the leak contained by sealing off both ends of the pipes that used to go into the slab. Here’s the manifold near the front door where the water was being run from the slab back down in the slab to the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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front door manifold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had to do the second smaller cutout to get more room for the soldering.\"front\u00a0You can see the cut and capped off pipe in the second picture below. I was lucky to find the supply line was a 3\/4 inch pipe, and then a 1\/2 inch teed off and went back down. \u00a0Since there was a 1\/2 inch in the kitchen, then that was the one. \u00a0I would have had to guess otherwise.<\/p>\n

The next set is where the pipe comes up for the kitchen and upstairs bathroom supply. \"kitchen\"kitchen\u00a0The pipes on the left are cold water, and the hot water is on the right. \u00a0There is a previous cap from an earlier slab leak a few years ago, so now both pipes are capped. My job is the left solder work, which I think is a better job!<\/p>\n

The next sequence of pictures is where I dug into the backside of the upstairs bathroom and teed in the hot water supply line.<\/p>\n

\"Back
Back of upstairs water lines behind sink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was kind of a tricky job getting the copper tee just right. \u00a0Basically you have to cut enough to be able to slide the thing in, but then slide if half a length up the other way and solder it. \u00a0I chose to connect this pipe to the upstairs bathroom lines with PEX tubing. \u00a0It’s a whole lot simpler than sweating copper pipes together. \u00a0You can see my wonderful amateur plumber work up close.<\/p>\n

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\"bathroom
bathroom line after tee installation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"PEX
PEX tubing attached<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Close-up
Close-up of the PEX tubing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So that’s about it. \u00a0I still want to put up a picture of the \u00a0other side of the PEX tubing. \u00a0I just hacked into the existing hot line and even installed a ball valve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally got the leak contained by sealing off both ends of the pipes that used to go into the slab. Here’s the manifold near the front door where the water was being run from the slab back down in the slab to the kitchen. I had to do the second smaller cutout to get … <\/p>\n

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