OMG my second biggest nightmare

Yeah, I like my 1906 house and I have had to do many things to it. It sort of was my job at the time. Some things look crooked but I put them in plumb, the doorways are off. My house and just deal with it.

I have the blue polybutylene pipe that runs outside the house to the meter 250' , it's a time bomb waiting to happen. when it goes it will be a PITA, but until then I'm paying the 2 bucks a month for leak insurance that my water company charges me. 

We have water. After finding out the leaking line tapped into the supply line somewhere under my 8" thick shop floor! I added two days work and about $150.00 to the total and added a completely new 3/4" PEX supply line by going up the wall of the shop and over it in the rafters. All insulated. Then back down the outside wall through the POS foundation wall under 2' of side walk to where the city removed our old meter just two years ago and tapped into the supply.

With the neighbors help I got everything hooked up about 5:00 last night we did a test and passed nothing leaked and everything except one in ground hose bib in the back yard worked (it must tie in to the bad line somewhere ).

Now for two days of insulting floor repair and putting thing back where they belong. Then I can clean up the shop and find all my tools spread all over the place.

Shower last night sure felt good!

Edited by Mark W. - 13 Dec. 2017 at 4:23pm

We will get into the high teens for a short time each winter but around freezing is the norm for cold. We are more of a high 30's low40's and WET winter here.

You're lucky, any water line out here has to be at least 4ft deep, glad to hear you've got it fixed. 

It never ends. 

My friend is a plumber and he hates to deal with galvanized pipes. As soon as you do something on one end, they are going to start leaking somewhere else.