So... I found a ticking time bomb in my wall.

[SPDguns]

Water heater was leaking, so I pulled it out. A little bit of sheet rock damage, no big deal. I pull the sheet rock and find this! It was fugly. I pulled on the pipe with hardly any force at all and it separated. Completely. Had this blown, it would have flooded the house and the garage with hot water. It probably started as a small leak when the house was built in '56. Anyway, I'm gonna upgrade to PEX, assuming the plumber shows up tomorrow. It's a three day wait to get a plumber in Stillwater, but that's another thread.

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[tRidiot]

Holy WOWzers Batman!

What a stroke of luck your water heater went out, right????

That's an incredible find.

 

[BrandonM]

Looks fine. Just run it.

 

[Catt57]

Galvanized water lines?

 

[CGS1]

Duck tape will fix that
And it's available in a variety of fashionable colors and patterns.

 

[druryj]

Lucky. I had a similar issue with a leaking shower pan...I had it taken out, and ended up doing about a $3,500 re-build because of a similar looking issue under and behind the floor and walls around the shower. Leaking water can cause a lot of bad stuff. In fact, just last night I found myself standing in a puddle of water in front of the kitchen sink and discovered that my disposal was leaking. I pulled everything out from under the cabinet, sopped up the water, put a bucket under it, and just called the plumber. I don't have time to screw with it, I have a crew of three coming to get my old Hot Tub out of the atrium, so I can re-do the concrete pad in there before they bring my new Hot Tub in a couple of weeks.

Leaking disposals, patio doors that have to come out, ( so they can get the old tub out of the house), pieces of furniture and things to be moved so they can maneuver 900 Lbs. of dry hot tub around and out...whew! I'm getting worn out just thinking of all of it. I think I better go take a nap before all those guys get here and make me get even more tired watching them work.

 

[rlongnt]

Lucky catch. That could have turned out really bad.

 

[aarondhgraham]

That's the exact reason that I exposed all of my pipes when I re-plumbed my mobile home.

I know that nobody wants to see pipes nowadays,,,
But I've seen too many contractors hide shoddy work behind drywall.

If It would have been feasible to do at the time,,,
I would have exposed the wiring as well.

Aarond

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[Fyrtwuck]

I wonder what the insides of those pipes look like?

 

[DRC458]

Holy crap! Congrats on avoiding disaster!