Today we fixed a busted pipe--it leaked so much so that precious water was spurting everywhere but not to the right direction. It's ridiculous how there is water everywhere except where it's needed. You open the faucet but it's empty. It's not that there's no water--there is.
So we needed to trace where the leak was. Tracing was tricky when there's water everywhere. You need to keep the ground dry, and as soon as it's dry, the leak appears. Aha! There you are! It gushed a very thin line of water upward from a very thin crack on the PVC pipe. It's hardest to trace a leak when the crack is almost invisibly thin. Big cracks may leak huge amounts of water, but because they're easy to trace, they're easily detected and fixed.
Not small and thin cracks. They go on and on leaking water by the gallons each day without being detected. The water bills at the end of the month just shock you like that. "Huh? Who's been drinking water this much lately?" So we decided to fix the leak as soon as possible--no, we had to fix it TODAY!
Fixing leaks is messy--you get all wet and soiled and smelling of the toxic solvent and vulcaseal and cement. These are necessary messes. It's really a battle. But once you finally pinpoint the leak, it's 90 percent fixed, piece of cake.
Now, you make sure your pipes are leak proof--pipes where the Water of Life freely flows. Strong pressure often bursts old and rusty or rotten pipes, or loose PVC connections. Rust can burst the pipe in time and water just goes everywhere except to your faucets--like the seed thrown on the pathway, rocky ground, or thorny soil. So replace run down pipes and make sure the piping system is always young and fresh, and we're not talking of age here. We're really talking of pipes unable to withstand pressure and wear and tear.
Sometimes, old pipes do better than new ones--when they're fitted right, strong, and exposed to light, not hidden underground. And you have to have power to fix leaking pipes. Oh yeah, real power--power more powerful than 10,000 nuclear bombs!
If you know what I mean.
So we needed to trace where the leak was. Tracing was tricky when there's water everywhere. You need to keep the ground dry, and as soon as it's dry, the leak appears. Aha! There you are! It gushed a very thin line of water upward from a very thin crack on the PVC pipe. It's hardest to trace a leak when the crack is almost invisibly thin. Big cracks may leak huge amounts of water, but because they're easy to trace, they're easily detected and fixed.
Not small and thin cracks. They go on and on leaking water by the gallons each day without being detected. The water bills at the end of the month just shock you like that. "Huh? Who's been drinking water this much lately?" So we decided to fix the leak as soon as possible--no, we had to fix it TODAY!
Fixing leaks is messy--you get all wet and soiled and smelling of the toxic solvent and vulcaseal and cement. These are necessary messes. It's really a battle. But once you finally pinpoint the leak, it's 90 percent fixed, piece of cake.
Now, you make sure your pipes are leak proof--pipes where the Water of Life freely flows. Strong pressure often bursts old and rusty or rotten pipes, or loose PVC connections. Rust can burst the pipe in time and water just goes everywhere except to your faucets--like the seed thrown on the pathway, rocky ground, or thorny soil. So replace run down pipes and make sure the piping system is always young and fresh, and we're not talking of age here. We're really talking of pipes unable to withstand pressure and wear and tear.
Sometimes, old pipes do better than new ones--when they're fitted right, strong, and exposed to light, not hidden underground. And you have to have power to fix leaking pipes. Oh yeah, real power--power more powerful than 10,000 nuclear bombs!
If you know what I mean.