what your looking at is a wet, gooey, nasty, mess. ya see when we bought this property lets call it "hawkins" it had a preexisting problem. see whom ever lived here did not have plumbing know how, and it had developed a leak(or two or three). and whom ever had installed the plumbing didn't have the common sense to incorporate a shut off valve anywhere on the whole dad gum house. the water comes from a well with five other houses, none with a shut off valve. so with no way to shut off cause all the other houses needed water. so lets put two and two together....leaking pipes + no shut off valve= a wet, gooey, nasty, mess.
solution........ well i was pretty happy when i crawled under there and saw all copper plumbing and i knew it was going to be a snap. game plan go to that home improvement store, get a "gater bite"(a pipe fitting that requires no soldering). sneak over to the well house cut off water run, crawl under house, cut pipe, snap on fitting, crawl back out, run and cut on water back on. all so fast that know one would be the wiser. but as you know to every great plan there is a complication.............but i was fortunate and it went as planned. took about five min and some muddy knees. but im happy to report no more dip drops for now at least.
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It looks ugly under there David!
Ugly indeed!
Any issues with mold? Because that does look pretty nasty.
levi
mold was noted during inspection, but that is to be expected because of water was leaking for who knows how long. Before I can total up the damage it has to dry out. With the leak stopped any mold should vacate . Keeping my fingers crossed . Davy doo
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