We got a pretty large water bill this month, which alarmed us. After a bit of scouting, we found a place between our house and the monstrosity on the front lot where the soil was quite wet. Ugh.
After a bit of digging, we found it. It was where our water line comes into the house. It was an old galvanized fitting, and it was in full-blown sprinkler mode, a la a cartoon. Lovely. My spouse first dug it up on Wednesday, as I was shoveling gravel and filling some of the monster potholes in our driveway. Thursday we dug it up fully and he hammered a new hole in the foundation of our house to pass the line through. Friday we assembled everything, and Saturday we finally got it to stop leaking. Today we filled back in the hole, complete with a nifty valve box so we can shut the water off to the house without having to actually go out to the meter and do it. That way we can have water at our hose bib, but still cut it off to our house. We also cleaned out some of the parts leading to our kitchen sink - they were almost totally gunked closed, which was gross. Now, however, we have full water pressure on our cold water. Hooray!
Anyway, here are some pictures of the leaking and the digging. I'm sure we'll get more pics and details posted as the week goes on.
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