Repair to Water supply

As mentioned previously Rob discovered a leak in our water supply a few weeks ago but as the water was still running and there were tons of other things to do I tried to ignore it. However when we inspected it last weekend it was obvious that it had been running for quite a while. We also found out that most likely it had been caused by the chicken farmer neighbour when he put up the fence but he has kept rather quiet.

On Tuesday we went with out usual Wednesday crew plus Neil to see what we could do and we dug various holes to prepare to replace the last section of asbestos pipe with our black pipe.

Here we are near the manhole with the stopcock and air valve.

We found that we needed an adaptor and another roll of pipe so during the remainder of the week this was bought and On Saturday we returned to put it all together.

We put our own stopcock in as well as the old one does not close properly anymore.

Our preparation paid off as everything went very smoothly and we connected the new sections of pipe, filled the holes and we have water again!

We even had enough time left to carry the new bench to the arboretum and try it out.