Lost my Sub-rural card?

[ustmd]

First a confession and then a question.

Back story:

So starting yesterday morning, the water pressure in the house is low. Check around the house, no leaks. Check the barn ("upstream" of the house), no leak and low pressure. Call the water company, no work or issues reported. It is pouring rain, so put doing any more investigation until today.

Go to the meter by the road (~0.75 miles), area with the 4 meters (mine and 3 neighbors, full of water). Maybe rain, maybe problem. root around and see that water is flowing up near my meter (on my side of the meter-crap).

Today and tomorrow are nightmare days at work (I work from home), so no time to deal with this.

Here is my confession:

I called a plumber to find and fix the leak. Talyor from SD plumbing is out there right now digging up the pipe to fix the leak--~5 ft back from the meter--I am betting a bad joint.


Going to cost me ~$1100 for him to find and fix the leak.

Here is my question

Did I just lose my sub-rural card?:laughing: I have fixed many plumbing leaks before and this one is technically within my skill set.

 

[square1]

No comment on the sub-rural card, but if Taylor form SD Plumbing is a girl your man card took a real hit

 

[turnkey4099]

Back when it would have been "out with the shovel and tools" Now it is work below knee level it is "telephone!!"

 

[two_bit_score]

With some of that magic tape they sell on TV you could have banded it in less time than it would take to call the plumber. Then 'fixed' it at your convenience.





But if you are making $5,000 in the same time I'd say call Taylor.


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[RNeumann]

Only thing that appears to be a problem is that you didn’t have the time to deal with it. We chose to live rural so we have more time around the house.
.........this a classic case of self loathing! haha

 

[ustmd]

Well, Taylor is a guy, so no love there.

Feeling better about the issue--they are having to come back tomorrow with the excavator. He dug back along the line 6 feet and still could not find the leak.

 

[Deere Dude]

lol That stuff happens.

I was supposed to be an air conditioner/ Hvac techynician at work 15 years ago. I retired and fix what I can around the house. I have a heat pump with gas backup that was giving me problems. The evaperator fan would run all the time and not shut off and so would the combustion blower. I checked fuses, banged on circuit boards, twisted wires and all to no avail. Every 4-5 months it was something different it seems.

I stopped in a HVAC shpop and told them I wanted a quote for a new system sans heat pump, but just air and a gas back up. He came out and I told him what it was doing and he said it is probably a roll-out safety switch, and his buddy bent over and pushed the bug red button inside the door. Walla, It was fixed.

I felt pretty retarded at that point, but it wasn't a service call so it didn't cost anything so I was lucky with that. But I will probably get a replacement unit anyway.

 

[hawkeye08]

My wife called a pump guy when we had no well water. I had disconnected and checked ohms on pump, decided it was likely control box. My wife had picked up control box and new pump and she arrived home a few minutes before pump guy showed up. He checked a few things and replaced control box. I asked him what made him decide it was control box, he said, it is either the pump or control box, I never put a new pump in without a new control box, so either this fixes it or we need to put a pump in too. He was not cheap, but he did use the control box we purchased (saved us $90 and was same box he carried).

We found out we had a bad pressure tank, so had him drop one off so I could install it, asked for quote on new pump/pipe/wire and ended iup having him come back before Thanksgiving and take care of that... We have done all that in the past, but we are both done with that and make enough to pay someone else for some things.

If you have the money, and don't have the time, nothing wrong with supporting local business. When we were younger, we did not have the money.

 

[JRobyn]

If it involves digging anymore, I avoid it. When the wife ran over one of the yard hydrants with the bushog, I made her dig it up and replace it. I did shut off the line and drove to Lowes to get the replacement. You can come and get my card if you want; I don't care.

 

[turnkey4099]

Well, Taylor is a guy, so no love there.

Feeling better about the issue--they are having to come back tomorrow with the excavator. He dug back along the line 6 feet and still could not find the leak.

I hopes they bid the job and stick with the bid!