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Old 12-22-2012, 06:26 PM   #1
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Default Water leak inside wall

It was one of those mornings when my wife wakes me up with the garage floor is flooded. So I get up and start to look at what happen

She pulled her car out of the garage and we began the cleanup






I started looking for where the water was coming from and saw water dripping out of the wall below the water feed to the house. I grabbed my drywall saw and began tearing out drywall and found the leak. It was the copper to plastic connection.




I called in a plumbing contractor that cut the old pipe out of the wall and then we saw what happen to the leaky pipe.





The Plumbing contractor installed a fitting called a Shark-bite.
This has fixed the water leak



Water leak is fixed.


I did not have a picture of when I pulled out the wet Insulation from the wall and I found a carpenter ants nest inside the wall. I moved very quickly with bug juice with what looked to be a millions of them crawling out of the wall.

Carpenter ants like wood and water so I was glad to get the leak fixed

I will make a plywood patch to cover the hole after I re-insulate the wall.

My Wife has put things in perspective with. The inside of the house is dry


Here is info on Shark-Bite fitting to make repairs

http://www.sharkbiteplumbing.com/
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