Hello,
I was wondering if you guys could help me out with a problem as I don't know much about plumbing.
There was a leak coming from under my yard, so I dug it up and it turns out that the main water line to my house was leaking. The leak was coming from a compression repair coupling that someone (Probably the previous house owner) put there. So I turned off the water to my house, bought a new compression repair coupling and put it on. It failed again after a while. I had to cut it off so now there is around a 10 inch gap between the pipes.
Went to Home Depot and the associates there told me that I cannot use a compression repair coupling on that pipe, because it is High Density Polyethylene(HDPE) and that compression coupling is only for PVC, so I went to a plumbing store. There, I bought 2 HDPE copper couplings (with male threads), 2 copper to PVC adaptors (this is made out of PVC), and some 1-1/2" PVC Sch 40. The idea was to fill in the gap with PVC.
I did all this and its working fine, but the copper to PVC adaptor is leaking. I used 3 rounds of teflon tape on the metal threads and screwed on the PVC adaptor as hard as I could using 2 huge wrenches. It was leaking 1 drop every 20 seconds from each connection, but I don't know what's happening, but now its only leaking every 90 seconds.
Do you guys think this setup will hold or will it get worse overtime, or possible break again? Or should I just save up and call a plumber in a week or two? I can redo and it wouldn't cost that much, but I don't know what else I can do differently. I already spent 8 hours digging up the hose to get enough flex to get it in the coupling
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Samuel
I was wondering if you guys could help me out with a problem as I don't know much about plumbing.
There was a leak coming from under my yard, so I dug it up and it turns out that the main water line to my house was leaking. The leak was coming from a compression repair coupling that someone (Probably the previous house owner) put there. So I turned off the water to my house, bought a new compression repair coupling and put it on. It failed again after a while. I had to cut it off so now there is around a 10 inch gap between the pipes.
Went to Home Depot and the associates there told me that I cannot use a compression repair coupling on that pipe, because it is High Density Polyethylene(HDPE) and that compression coupling is only for PVC, so I went to a plumbing store. There, I bought 2 HDPE copper couplings (with male threads), 2 copper to PVC adaptors (this is made out of PVC), and some 1-1/2" PVC Sch 40. The idea was to fill in the gap with PVC.
I did all this and its working fine, but the copper to PVC adaptor is leaking. I used 3 rounds of teflon tape on the metal threads and screwed on the PVC adaptor as hard as I could using 2 huge wrenches. It was leaking 1 drop every 20 seconds from each connection, but I don't know what's happening, but now its only leaking every 90 seconds.
Do you guys think this setup will hold or will it get worse overtime, or possible break again? Or should I just save up and call a plumber in a week or two? I can redo and it wouldn't cost that much, but I don't know what else I can do differently. I already spent 8 hours digging up the hose to get enough flex to get it in the coupling
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Samuel