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<blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 3601301" data-attributes="member: 14646"><p>Well, It got more interesting today. I met the new owner of our house today along with a plumber the Home Warranty company sent out. He did some checks and look things over and is 100% sure the leak is the hot supp;y going to the Kitchen sink. He mentioned the best course of action to fix it and since the new owners will end up doing a full remodel of the kitchen they spoke about doing fixing this current issue with a single line repipe for now just to get thing back to normal. RUn it the easies route and be done until the remodel. He made sure all faucets were off at the house as well as the coldwater into the HW heater. There is a meter at the street that looks like an odometer on a car as well as a small blue dial that spins. Well, wen every thing was shut off the small blue dial kept slowly spining. He said the rate of spin was approx 1gpm of flow. This test was not part of the hot water line leaking as it was isolated. HE siad there must be another pipe leak in the house. He grabbed a fancy handheld device with headphones and a metal spike lookng thing that he put on various copper lines in the house that sent some sort of "waves" or something down the pipe or listened to something and he said there is another leak in the ground between the maser bathroom and gues bathroom. We have no sign of anything leaking in that area. That 1gpm equals approx 1400 gallons per day and i don't know how that could not show itself with water or damp coming up through the floor or out near the endge of the house. </p><p></p><p>At this point i can tell the new owner is a concerned but he has been very nice and accomodating with us on everything. THe plumber is now recommending a full repipe of the house as it wouldn't be that much more to have the house done rather than donig jsut two lines. our house was built in 1958 and i don't know of another on our street where we know the neighbors and they haven't had a slab leak yet. THis must be this houses turn. That being said, i'm not sure how much i buy the plumbers assessment of the second slab leak. ANyways, 7 days in to new home ownership and this new owner is put to the test. I feel super bad for him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Parks 788, post: 3601301, member: 14646"] Well, It got more interesting today. I met the new owner of our house today along with a plumber the Home Warranty company sent out. He did some checks and look things over and is 100% sure the leak is the hot supp;y going to the Kitchen sink. He mentioned the best course of action to fix it and since the new owners will end up doing a full remodel of the kitchen they spoke about doing fixing this current issue with a single line repipe for now just to get thing back to normal. RUn it the easies route and be done until the remodel. He made sure all faucets were off at the house as well as the coldwater into the HW heater. There is a meter at the street that looks like an odometer on a car as well as a small blue dial that spins. Well, wen every thing was shut off the small blue dial kept slowly spining. He said the rate of spin was approx 1gpm of flow. This test was not part of the hot water line leaking as it was isolated. HE siad there must be another pipe leak in the house. He grabbed a fancy handheld device with headphones and a metal spike lookng thing that he put on various copper lines in the house that sent some sort of "waves" or something down the pipe or listened to something and he said there is another leak in the ground between the maser bathroom and gues bathroom. We have no sign of anything leaking in that area. That 1gpm equals approx 1400 gallons per day and i don't know how that could not show itself with water or damp coming up through the floor or out near the endge of the house. At this point i can tell the new owner is a concerned but he has been very nice and accomodating with us on everything. THe plumber is now recommending a full repipe of the house as it wouldn't be that much more to have the house done rather than donig jsut two lines. our house was built in 1958 and i don't know of another on our street where we know the neighbors and they haven't had a slab leak yet. THis must be this houses turn. That being said, i'm not sure how much i buy the plumbers assessment of the second slab leak. ANyways, 7 days in to new home ownership and this new owner is put to the test. I feel super bad for him. [/QUOTE]
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