Water line fixed

I'm happy that my house is no longer purging water through a 60 year old service line. Turns out that in the 50s the standard allowed for there to be multiple pieces of pipe that were soldered together. The standard now is to have only one piece of copper line. Good news is the new pipe should last over 60 years! Even though there was some corrosion on the old water line, it didn't have holes or anything. Here are some before and after pictures.

My wallet hurts a little from this expense, but luckily I made sure to save up before buying the house. And I keep telling myself that it makes the house more valuable. Really, it pays for itself in just a couple of years because the leak was pretty bad. I'm hoping my water bills will be at least a third of what they are now. For a couple of days this was the view out of my front yard.

I watched them do a little of the work. They duct taped the new line to the old line and used chains and the backhoe to pull the old line out and the new line through without digging up much of my yard. Yes, duct tape proves to be very useful again!