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"When in the course of human events...." you end up working on things around the homestead that may or may not have been in use previously or been done by other people-
It would behoove you to have a good quantity of various sizes of PVC end caps.
One of the drawbacks of using a few common plumbing sizes for irrigation, etc. is that the bulk of what we stock is for those sizes only.
Sooooo, we were pushing over a structure not originally built by us. It's been there forever, it's been an eye sore and wasn't really doing much for a long while now.
It occurred to me that the original builder may have jacked into my existing water grid. But certainly a ball valve or shutoff was used and since this structure hadn't seen use in 15 or so years it wouldn't be a problem.
It was :) And it was a non standard size pipe that was used. So when the structure was demolished, the water began to flow. No shut off valve was found. Whole water grid had to be shut down, source traced back- that included one false lead- and then capped.
As usual stupid stuff happens when:
1. It's getting dark soon.
2. It's cold out.
So finally at 10:30 the situation was rectified, PVC glue dried and three tired workers could get a shower and go to bed.
Lessons-
1. Never assume something you did not build was put up with a lick of common sense or any thought given to cutting power, water, etc.
2. Always have plenty of plumbing supplies on hand. As we scrambled for a 2" pipe cap (that oddly enough was the "false trail" that created another break to fix this week, albeit not as urgent), I kept thinking about the time it would take to get to a Lowes and that they would close at such and such time, etc. We ended up having the pieces we needed.
So we now have end caps for a multitude of PVC sizes.
It would behoove you to have a good quantity of various sizes of PVC end caps.
One of the drawbacks of using a few common plumbing sizes for irrigation, etc. is that the bulk of what we stock is for those sizes only.
Sooooo, we were pushing over a structure not originally built by us. It's been there forever, it's been an eye sore and wasn't really doing much for a long while now.
It occurred to me that the original builder may have jacked into my existing water grid. But certainly a ball valve or shutoff was used and since this structure hadn't seen use in 15 or so years it wouldn't be a problem.
It was :) And it was a non standard size pipe that was used. So when the structure was demolished, the water began to flow. No shut off valve was found. Whole water grid had to be shut down, source traced back- that included one false lead- and then capped.
As usual stupid stuff happens when:
1. It's getting dark soon.
2. It's cold out.
So finally at 10:30 the situation was rectified, PVC glue dried and three tired workers could get a shower and go to bed.
Lessons-
1. Never assume something you did not build was put up with a lick of common sense or any thought given to cutting power, water, etc.
2. Always have plenty of plumbing supplies on hand. As we scrambled for a 2" pipe cap (that oddly enough was the "false trail" that created another break to fix this week, albeit not as urgent), I kept thinking about the time it would take to get to a Lowes and that they would close at such and such time, etc. We ended up having the pieces we needed.
So we now have end caps for a multitude of PVC sizes.
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