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Took me 4 days to track down an underground water leak that was right in front of me
Everyone kept telling me to just call a leak detection service and be done with it. But I figured I could find it myself with a simple probe and some patience. After digging 8 holes across a parking lot in Phoenix last July, I finally found the leak 3 feet from the main shutoff valve. Wasted 30 hours and a whole weekend because I didn't start at the most obvious spot first. Sometimes the popular "just hire it out" advice isn't wrong, but I still hate admitting I should have listened. Has anyone else burned days on a problem that ended up being right under their nose?
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black.pat28d ago
Did you ever stop to think maybe the heat was messing with your head a little? 115 degree days in Phoenix make anybody do dumb stuff. I've seen guys spend a whole afternoon chasing a leak that was spraying directly onto asphalt and evaporating before it hit the ground. The sun cooks your common sense right out of you.
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danielw8827d ago
Hold on, you're telling me the water was evaporating before it even reached the ground? That's wild. I knew it got hot down there but I never thought about it messing with a leak like that. Sounds like a real waste of a day, chasing a ghost in the heat.
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