Hoo new vat then ?

[ToughButterCup]

Our old house. Wall gets wet. No good apparent reason. Wall a few feet thick. Hmmm. Call a plummer. Very nice man. Very nice man indeed.

 

Wasssis then? I ask

Hmmm, he sez. Wall's wet  he sez.

🙄

An hour later he saunters up and says: Seen a piece of copper pipe this thick before ?

Naaah

 

 

 

And this is where it was leaking

 

 

No.  I can't see the hole either.

 

Buried a foot inside the (3 foot thick)  wall.

 

Why? Buildhub - why?

 

[ProDave]

There were problems in the past with copper developing pin holes for no reason.

 

Buried in a wall it should be sleeved.  Was this just passing through the wall or literally going up or across inside the wall at some depth?

[ToughButterCup]

13 hours ago, ProDave said:

There were problems in the past with copper developing pin holes for no reason.

Buried in a wall it should be sleeved.  Was this just passing through the wall or literally going up or across inside the wall at some depth?

 

You, my son, have a long history of telling me stuff about a few years too late. In fairness, the pipe has been there for a minimum of 35, maybe 40 years.

 

'... should be sleeved... ' indeed. 

 

The pipe goes (for no good reason) up, across and through the wall for about 6, maybe 700 mm ... 

 

Interesting this building lark innit?  Ya larn sum stoof on Buildhub duntcha...

Thanks Dave.

[TerryE]

4 hours ago, ToughButterCup said:

You, my son, have a long history of telling me stuff about a few years too late. In fairness, the pipe has been there for a minimum of 35, maybe 40 years.

 

'... should be sleeved... ' indeed. 

 

I did all the plumbing in my old farmhouse 35 years ago.  I still remember the then rule "all buried pipework should be sleeved to prevent mechanical or chemical degradation of the pipework".  So it was a botched job waiting to fail. ☹️

[markc]

Cement and copper are not good friends