Saturday - night

The end of the broken lines saga.  Honestly, I just short of begged the contractor to come out and fix my screwup as things weren't getting any better.  A crew of people coming who do this stuff all day long, 5 days a week would easily fix it or even if they had trouble there is a crew, not a single person.  I spent over $300 in parts to give you an idea of what was involved with this situation and I used everything excepting one slip coupler. 

So yesterday morning I picked up where I left off the sunset day before.  I got what I could done and then went to the store again.  I got it all finished. It was quite the maze but there wasn't much to do besides channeling the water line away and I would have had to dig up even more water line and I still don't think that would have helped. They have that water line snuggled up to the sewer line and they crisscross each other, it's a pretty stupid setup. For seasoned contractors and crews, I would think they could have done much better than that. 

I was afraid to turn the water back on.  I felt like it was just going to blow up somewhere.  But, I went to the street, turned it on and came back - to yet another  very large leak that was dumping gallons of water per minute.  I hadn't seen that leak, it was where the water line was coming out of the dirt.  I looked at it and said, ok, I got this.  

BACK TO THE STORE AGAIN. The counter sales agent shook his head and said you should get a contractor.  I countered that I had tried to get him out there.  Anyway, back to the property, install the parts and wait.  You can't just fire up water pressure on a line like that after gluing it together, the glue has to have time to dry and set.  

I went home, let the puppy out, did some stuff and then headed back over there.  Drove straight to the water main meter, turned it on and prayed.  Please, God, please.  I got back over there and found - nothing!  No more leaks!! Forgot to say that when i was going to get the first parts run yesterday, I also took the mini ex back.  I was done with that for now and I didn't want to pay for another day's worth.  They gave me a substantial discount for having to deal with their broken mini ex, of which I didn't break.  Not even closed, turned out to be some relay that needed replaced that they had to order.