We've been having hot water issues for awhile. So last Friday Phil decided to break open a hole in the floor to see if he could start to repair the pipes. So he spent Friday chipping and drilling the concrete where he thought the leak was in the pipes, and this is what he found, pipes wrapped in plastic bags. And he also found that instead of using curved pipe when it went from the wall to the floor, they bent the straight pipe with pliers. We're guessing they did that to save money?
This is how they bent the pipe. Parts were SO bent and squished that we were surprised that we got any hot water at all. The plastic bag obviously didn't prevent the pipes from being crushed. And where they bent the pipes with pliers, we figure that's where we're going to find all the leaks. They didn't even use a pipe bender.
So, Phil's been working on it for a few days. Yes, that means we've been without hot water since Friday. I can't wait till it's finally fixed and we can take a real hot shower!
2 comments:
I can't believe the shoddy work people do anymore to cut costs and just plain laziness. That is inexcusable pipe. I am so sorry you're having to deal with all this when you thought you were FINALLY going to have hot water and one less headache. I hope everything goes smoothly fixing this. ~hugs
We finally have hot water! I'm so excited, I had to take a shower tonight, and it felt so good!!
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