Any plumber recomendations?

[kingjason]

I'd call a foundation company and have them look at your property and your neighbors foundation and the way it is graded or "drains on to your property". If they can not give you an answer or think its a foundation issue or drainage issue then I'm sure they can recommend who may be able to solve your water problem.



Let me know if you need a contact.


Real Estate Nate

I am going to just wait it out. I may order a 30ft half inch pex kit just in case. LOL I am going to clean out my neighbors clogged gutters that run by my house and remove the dirt them fools piled up by my house and see if that helps. Could be a some bad landscaping, dirt pile ups, and clogged gutters making it an issue. Just odd its dry as a bone now that the rains have quit. I did go talk to my neighbor and eyeball his foundation. Really it is lower then mine and all drains to the middle so not sure why it would have caused any issues. His place actually drains better now then it did in the past but just a lot of concrete.

I am actually getting close to putting this thing on the market but dont want to sell it with any weird issue.

[kingjason]

pex thus far has been a duriable product never had any issues with it. When we are doing a leak detection we have to trust in the equipment we use if the pressure is holding steady for test then there is not a leak. Could be ground water coming up through the holes in the slab or if there is foundation cracks around that area.

Would the water lines being hot make the water seeping up warm?

The RO guys just figured they clogged it when they were trying to pressurize it for the leak test. However..................

[forbes]

if the leak went away.. then it isnt clogged. water is under pressure, it will push the debris out of the way. sounds more like you are getting run off from rain. along your neighbors side, with the hill or what ever they did, run plastic and create a trough or just dig a simple trench then turn on a sprinkler and saturate it with water. see what happens

[kingjason]

Our houses are zero lot line and starting about two over is the highpoint. Mine drains towards the west which is his and the other one next to me drains back this way. All this has been screwed up for a while. When I moved in 5 years ago my garage would back up about an inch or two when it came a flood out. So my contractor kinda ran a canal to this guys yard and boom no more issues since his is a good drop from mine. When he did his little bootleg foundation he almost did not figure this in but in the end we put in a nice 6 inch pipe drain out to his front yard. It drains better then before at the back of my house but they did throw about 6 to 8 inches of dirt back there by my house. However it still slopes back to the drain we ran so I never really though about it. The other house on the west side of me has clogged gutters so the water just pours into my side yard. I also sodded this area when I moved in and last year or so we added some landscaping to the front of the yard that may be blocking the side yard from draining better. Maybe just maybe the perfect storm is forming and causing just enough to let this seep up during super heavy rains for multiple days. I may correct these three issues and see if it helps. Just kind of a pain when it is not reproducing regularly. Plus like I said it appeared when I shut the water off it helped but it also quit raining the same day or around there. So when I turned the water back on it would not start up again.

[forbes]

if it is a real leak of a pressurized line.. you will continue to see it. i am going to assume your house is brick. if so, is the diet line at he same height as the weep holes? can you see the foundation? could it possibly be a drain line from a tub or sink? whats on the other side? if you wanna give me a call i can walk you through the steps i use to take as leak detector.

[kingjason]

He did but this damn driveway up against my house about 10 feet past were this fence stops but it is lower then the concrete line before the brick starts.. I just got thru removing a but load of dirt from this corner so maybe it will drain back properly but this is how it looked before I started..

[kingjason]

So a little update. The leak has been relatively dry for most days. My wife did a bunch of laundry and it popped up a little then dried up but I think maybe the vibration of the machine is doing that. I have really worked wonders on water drainage and hell who knew what the ultimate issue was. I get home form the gym tonight with the rains and walla it had started up again. Now I watched it really well and absolutely saw it bubble up from that pipe on the left. Just to make sure it wasnt rain water a sat there for about thirty minutes mopping up the little stream of water making sure I had the right pipe andthen dried it out and killed the hot water feed and purged the system. Dabbed up the residue and no more water coming thru. Very bizarre but some how the rain makes the hot water line leak appear. I really do not think they will be able to find it when the rain quits it is the oddest thing ever. Tomorrow the wife and I are gonna run some water and make sure that one goes to our master. If it does I am really hoping the master manifold is in the garage wall where the sink is and then I may eyeball some pex. LOL Really probably a 20 minute job if I can figure out how to solder with a torch. I am very good with the electrical stuff. I really do not even think they can punch a hole and get to that area if it runs under the AC unit.

[kingjason]

FU hot water line. Well I punched a small hole in the sheetrock under my sink and then strolled around to the garage and went to work with a knife. I was pleasantly supprised to find the hot in to the sink and out to the shower. I ran hot water today to that back bath and the one leaking is the only one that got hot. Tonight I went and ran hot water to the sink in that bathroom with the shower off and the pipe on the left got hot. Pex is 26 bucks for 100 ft and I need maybe 25. Two sharkbite fittings 20.00 bucks(thanks Forbes for pointing these out), some routing which looks easy as pie, and we should be set. Probably gonna save myself at least 2500 and a hole in the damn foundation.

[kingjason]

Oh and I know it looks like a drunk cut the sheetrock but I was excited. LOL

[kingjason]

88 bucks and two hours later I am almost leak free I think. I at least got the lines right and now have flowing water again. One of my sharkbites is wanting to drip ever so slowly on the copper side. I may need to pull it off and clean it again.

[kingjason]

Ehh it I tapped it up a little with a hammer and we have been drip free for 30 minutes. Now lets see if it drys out completely overnight. The key though is no water coming up from the slab at this point. I have no problem paying someone to sweat on some real joints, or trying a little glue around the copper since I am at least 1500 ahead or so and no hole in my slab and floor. LOL

[forbes]

just reading your post... and noticed where you said your lady did alot of laundry and it started to show again....does she use hot water to wash? could be the drain line, easy way to tell is run a water hose in the drain and see what happens

[mikec]

Good deal man. And those shark bites are sweet connectors. Pretty sure you wouldn't have gotten it off though, had you tried...

[kingjason]

just reading your post... and noticed where you said your lady did alot of laundry and it started to show again....does she use hot water to wash? could be the drain line, easy way to tell is run a water hose in the drain and see what happens

I eyeballed that first and we could not re produce. It is super dry today even with the heavy rains so we will call this a victory. I had a k cup under it all night and not a drop of water there either. I will post a pic when my internet comes up.

[kingjason]

That 2x4 in the wall on the left of the pipe was staying damp underneath and would flare up on during heavy rains. Winner Winner boys.