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I posted about a week ago with pictures of water damage caused by a leak in my old galvanized water pipe. I subsequently located the source of the leak at the elbow joint just before the water line enters the house through the concrete foundation.
I am now ready to call in a plumber to replace the line from the street to the house (about 35 feet), the vertical segment of pipe that rises through the foundation to the attic (about 10 feet) and a short segment (about two or three feet) in the attic that runs away from the street and deeper into the house. I am assuming that some type of plastic will be used (PVC, CPVC).
I would be most grateful if the good folks on this forum could give me a rough idea of the degree of difficulty of this job, how long it would take, and roughly how much I should expect to pay.
As you can see from the first three photos below, i have completely excavated the line from my water meter to the house.
The fourth picture shows the elbow joint where the pipe makes the turn at the top of the front wall and runs into the attic.
The fifth picture shows a short run of pipe that makes a turn at an elbow joint where the pipe then starts to run parallel to the front wall of the house. (the wall is painted yellow and the ceiling white).
I am assuming that it will be far easier for the plumber to hook up the new plastic pipe to the existing galvanized pipe at this second joint because there is a lot more space to work there than at the joint at the top of the front wall (because of the slope of the roof).
Many thanks in advance for your help!
I posted about a week ago with pictures of water damage caused by a leak in my old galvanized water pipe. I subsequently located the source of the leak at the elbow joint just before the water line enters the house through the concrete foundation.
I am now ready to call in a plumber to replace the line from the street to the house (about 35 feet), the vertical segment of pipe that rises through the foundation to the attic (about 10 feet) and a short segment (about two or three feet) in the attic that runs away from the street and deeper into the house. I am assuming that some type of plastic will be used (PVC, CPVC).
I would be most grateful if the good folks on this forum could give me a rough idea of the degree of difficulty of this job, how long it would take, and roughly how much I should expect to pay.
As you can see from the first three photos below, i have completely excavated the line from my water meter to the house.
The fourth picture shows the elbow joint where the pipe makes the turn at the top of the front wall and runs into the attic.
The fifth picture shows a short run of pipe that makes a turn at an elbow joint where the pipe then starts to run parallel to the front wall of the house. (the wall is painted yellow and the ceiling white).
I am assuming that it will be far easier for the plumber to hook up the new plastic pipe to the existing galvanized pipe at this second joint because there is a lot more space to work there than at the joint at the top of the front wall (because of the slope of the roof).
Many thanks in advance for your help!