Sunday, October 18, 2009

Leak Fixed

This is why Wilma & I are not plumbers. The whole story is as follows this cabin had a water leak. When Glen was putting on heat tape the pipe started leaking. Glen & I tried to turn the water off. We could not as the valve was frozen. We then found out that when we pushed down on the pipe the leak would stop.

What had happened was that a glue joint had come loose. Glen & I then were able to stop it. The next day when Glen was off it started leaking again, so Wilma & I went had to do something.

The Ranch will close in around three week & to get the water turned off so as to be able to re glue the joint we would have to drain the system or so we thought; Karen later told us there was another cut off. Wilma & I found that if we put downward pressure on the pipe the leak would stop.

Not wanted to stand & hold the pipe down all the time. We put a board on the bale of hay & then over to the pipe, then we put a large rock on the board, as you can see we wired the rock & pipe to keep them from coming apart. Thank it would pass an inspection?

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