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BadMouth:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 30, 2016, 02:05:53 pm ---

Heh, this time of year the water pressure to our neighborhood is barely a trickle. So many people watering their lawns and 100+ year old water mains.

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dkersten:
I lived in a trailer court for about 8 years and we had a watering schedule.. mine was set to 8am-7 pm every other day on weekdays.. I worked, so I had to try to water from 5pm to 7pm, at which time I got between 1 and 5psi and upwards of a gallon per hour, as long as you held the hose lower than ground level.

My lawn caught fire every 4th of July until I started using house water to water my lawn. I got yelled at by the trailer court owners but they never did anything more about it.

Now I'm in the water business, my company sells water well supplies (and irrigation products), so for a bottle of whiskey and the cost of the steel casing, I got one of our customers to drill a nice 6" well in my back yard. My sprinkler system has a 30gpm submersible pump that kicks out about 80psi. Costs me about 10 dollars a year in electricity to keep my grass green and plush.

A couple years after coming to work here I quoted out a new pump station for that trailer court.. turns out they had a 100gpm system to cover around 600 homes... No wonder I could never get water out of that spigot..

HaRuMaN:
Annnnnnd we have a slab leak. Hot water pipe is leaking somewhere under the slab in the master bedroom area.

Being on the hot side, we can turn off the hot water when we don't need it, and stop the leak. So that's good at least.

Oh, and homeowner's insurance isn't going to help because it "hasn't damaged anything". :banghead:

yotsuya:
Homeowners is the worst when it comes to water. We had a break in our main line in the kitchen. Called the home warranty, they sent out a guy who ripped the cabinets and counters out to jackhammer down to the leak. I call the insurance company, who tell me that they won't cover it because that specific type of plumbing damage isn't covered in my policy. ---smurfs---.

I call the plumber, who was going to change my insurance company $2000 for his work. We agree on $1100 cash to cover it. I had to pay out of pocket for all new cabinets, but the plus side is our family has a cabinet guy, and so we got a good deal and really upgraded what we had.

ChadTower:

I have strep throat. :-\

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