sorry , repost ignore this post
Thanks John, actually Charlie is closer to the solution than he realizes. I\'m still not done with this, but I have been moving from bypass to bypass. The water supply for my house separates above the cement in the wall right by the water heater. This is how it is supposed to be done, with single continuous lines run through the slab to a demand point where it comes out and is separated / distributed to faucets as needed.
Somehow, the line underground to the kitchen got broken and began leaking. No water was evident anywhere, but the water bill was higher and the little \"water moving\" thing on the meter would spin when nothing was on. This was discovered some months ago, and I cut the lines by the water heater and installed valves so that the lines could be separated and individually shut off. They would only turn on the kitchen line when the sink was being used, and needed the cold water.
Fast forward to Christmas Night, and my father hears water moving in that wall... Again when nothing is being used. The kitchen was already off. Uh-Oh. The bathroom line, 3/4\" (kitchen is 1/2\") is leaking BADLY. Like it sounds completely open underground, STILL no water evident anywhere.
The first bypass while figuring this out was to route the hot water feed to supply the toilets, so at least THEY worked. Nobody can think straight when they gotta go.
After 2 days, the bathroom line is now fixed however! I was able to cut off the distribution side inside the bathroom wall (where it splits to feed another bathroom and the sink / tub of the first bath) and then shove a continuous run of 1/2\" PEX tubing through the damaged line. The result - A hose-within-a-hose that isn\'t leaking. New connections (replaceable SharkBite fittings) later, and ALL the fixtures in BOTH bathrooms are back to full function. Part of this process was to build a new valve distribution block for by the water heater, so that the valves are easy to get to... Should anything happen again. (It had better not)
Right now I\'m working on building yet another valve distribution block, b/c apparently my ability to solvent-weld PVC is not up to task. The damn thing keeps leaking at solvent joints, even after I goop the hell out of them and let them cure for hours. Screw it, I\'m out. Now it will be THREADS and teflon pipe tape. That shit WORKS and doesn\'t leak.
The kitchen line is the final piece to the puzzle, I\'m leaning toward running a dedicated line outside the house to the back of the kitchen wall, and through - All exposed. Either that, or I will need a REALLY small size in PEX to fit through that 1/2\" kitchen line... Which I don\'t believe exists.
I hate water BTW - Damn shit is more powerful than a diamond drill bit at pushing through stuff.
Damn t-shirt weather :hyper:
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