Plumbers that can do a side job tomorrow?

[red89notch]

I came home to find half my house flooded today. Turns out I have a slab leak just under my water heater. I need to get this fixed ASAP and was just quote $3-4,000. It's a long shot but is there anyone on the board that can donit, save me a bit, and pad their own pockets at the same time? I will probably just have the pros do it but thought I would throw this out there.

[jw33]

[TX_92_Notch]

It's only half of the house. Don't be a pussy.

[John -- '02 HAWK]

I came home to find half my house flooded today. Turns out I have a slab leak just under my water heater. I need to get this fixed ASAP and was just quote $3-4,000. It's a long shot but is there anyone on the board that can donit, save me a bit, and pad their own pockets at the same time? I will probably just have the pros do it but thought I would throw this out there.

thats not a bad emergency price. I had it done a couple years ago and had to have the locator come out and find the leak. Just because its leaking from under the heater doesn't mean that's where the leak is. Once the leak was located then the crew with the jack hammer and power tools came out.

Make sure anybody that is drilling through your slab is doing dust/silica mitigation, the guys that did mine did nothing and the house was super nasty from all the dust

Hilti has some good info on the silica dust and the new osha regs

https://www.hilti.com/content/hilti/W1/US/en/services/power-tools/osha-silica-dust-regulations.html

[kingjason]

I cut mine at both ends in the old house, ran pex and shark bites, 80.00.

[Memo]

I cut mine at both ends in the old house, ran pex and shark bites, 80.00.

That's actually not a bad idea. Lol. I'll remember that in case I have a leak in the foundation.

[8mpg]

Where you located and are you sure its leaking there? I have a plumber that does good and cheap work but I dunno if hes the guy to track down a slab leak. He doesnt have fancy equipment that big companies do.

[yellowstang]

Where you located and are you sure its leaking there? I have a plumber that does good and cheap work but I dunno if hes the guy to track down a slab leak. He doesnt have fancy equipment that big companies do.

Send me his info, I need a water heater replaced, or might go tank-less instead. It's a gas water heater, but is only putting out warm water right now. I'm in Keller

[jewozzy]

I cut mine at both ends in the old house, ran pex and shark bites, 80.00.

Those things make diy simple as hell.

Send me his info, I need a water heater replaced, or might go tank-less instead. It's a gas water heater, but is only putting out warm water right now. I'm in Keller

Again, sharkbites. I did this with regular tubing though. Took me all of 45 min from removal to install. Most of that was waiting on the water to drain.

[kenny c]

The only thing to note when going from a tank to tankless retro is the gas line coming in might need to be larger. Going from ~50k BTU to ~150k BTU would require a larger line.

I'm a sales manager for Rinnai.

[yellowstang]

Decided to stick with the old tank water heater, or should I say hot water heater, lol. Getting one installed this afternoon hopefully, waiting on them to call back again.

[juiceweezl]

Water heater replacement or conversion to tankless is a snap DIY project. Save your money and do it yourself.

[yellowstang]

Water heater replacement or conversion to tankless is a snap DIY project. Save your money and do it yourself.

Screw DIY, got other shit to do today, and hate plumbing!
Plus, I'm lazy...

[Rick Modena]

I'm with Rob, pay someone to R&R that shit, I've seen it done, it take a few hours for a pro to do it, old mofos like us will take us a full day or two and we got shit to do...

[8mpg]

Replacing a water heater sucks. Those things are heavy and if they are on a pedestal, getting if off of it and onto the ground sucks. I'd pay too