please help with leak

what up fellas, hope somebody here can help me out since i dont have alot of money to just call somebody to come out. i guess the pics tell the story, its galvinized pipe and is leaking right where the water is spewing out.. you think i can cut out the leaking piece and slap another one on there?? or does it look soo coroted that its just gonna leak in another spot?? - right now im only workin with 200$ to pay somebody, i dont get payed till the end of the month so im hoping it wont be too expenive cause i dont think i can wait that long








and this is what happens when i turn the water on

At the very least, you will have to go back under the house to where this line tees off of the supply line. At that point, you may be able to just remove this pipe from the tee and install a plug. That would buy some time to do a more lasting repair, but if the pipe is as corroded back to the tee as it is outside, you may have a very difficult time getting the old pipe out of the tee. If that is the case, you are probably past the DIY stage. Unless you live in an area that never freezes, a frost free hose bib would be in order for a more permanent repair. My greater concern however, is that if your whole house is plumbed with galvanized pipe, you may be looking at a total pipe replacement in the very near future. It's not likely the all of the pipes are as bad as the one we see in the photo, but they may not be far behind. In other words, you may just be seeing the tip of the iceberg.

I can't tell for sure from the photos. I almost wanted to say that it is all copper, which would be a different story.

But if it is galvanized, then it is all threaded. Problem is you have the supply coming up from the ground to a tee? and then into the house. No Way to make this connection in the middle like that. You could use some kind of dresser coupling if you dig for more room. The bigger problem is the piece of pipe going through the wall. It is threaded into something inside, but if you tried to unscrew that, it will probably disintegrate.

Do you have access in a basement or crawlspace to the inside of this wall area:?

If you clean it as well as you can and then put a marine exoxy over the hole and a compression wrap over that - even an old inner tube pulled tight and held with duct tape it will slow the leak and might even stop it for a short time.

thanks mike, jim and gary - you guys are abig help

jimbo said:

But if it is galvanized, then it is all threaded. Problem is you have the supply coming up from the ground to a tee? and then into the house. No Way to make this connection in the middle like that. You could use some kind of dresser coupling if you dig for more room. The bigger problem is the piece of pipe going through the wall. It is threaded into something inside, but if you tried to unscrew that, it will probably disintegrate.

Do you have access in a basement or crawlspace to the inside of this wall area:?

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no basement but crawl space - your dead on about the supply coming in from the tee right below the leak as you can see in this next pic.. my buddy who is a jack of all trades just looked at it and says the galvanized piece that is leakin goes straight to a 90 and that the 90 is a diff kind of pipe and not coroted.. he tells me that he is gonna come back tomorrow and try and swap it out, hope it works

the main suppy knob located below the leak


and the galvanized piece going to the 90

MikeFromHC said:

If you clean it as well as you can and then put a marine exoxy over the hole and a compression wrap over that - even an old inner tube pulled tight and held with duct tape it will slow the leak and might even stop it for a short time.

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What?

This is a little bigger than Billy Mays and Mighty Putty!

Hey Redwood, that almost sounds like Southern Man's back!

leak

1. It is not copper.
2. It is galvanized.
3. It is WEEELLLLL beyond the epoxy tape stage.
4. $200.00 is not going to do it.
5. No way to tell how bad it is without going into the crawl space to see where the pipe goes once it is in there.

Gary Swart said:

Hey Redwood, that almost sounds like Southern Man's back!

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Where do all these Hacks come from....

Good Gawd!

Like freakin cockroaches....