View Full Version : New water line.. . no water
girls2closet4se
Feb 7, 2009, 10:03 PM
After working on it all day we just installed a new water line. Used 1 inch PVC pipe. Turned it on everything worked fine for 3 mintues. Then one of the lines came undone @ a coupling. Fixed that. Waited an hour before we turned the water on at the meter. NOTHING!
Called our water company and they were clueless.
Any ideas on what we can do? All the turn on valves are open.:confused::confused:
21boat
Feb 7, 2009, 10:09 PM
That kind of sounds impossible?
Are you sure when you turned it on another part of that line hidden didn't pop too?
I'm also not sure why you aren't using CPVC for the water line.
What kind of a valve was at the water meter a gate valve or ball valve. If it's a gate valve I would easily suspect that it's the problem here. Even though you think it turned on the can go bad down in the stem and you can't always tell.
I would go after the big nut on it to take the whole valve stem out. Do it slowly to see if there is water coming out of it.
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girls2closet4se
Feb 7, 2009, 10:12 PM
I walked from the street to the inside of the crawl space. No other water leak/spray at all.
Our local plumbing supply house told us to it was OK to use the PVC.
Everything is wide open just no water.
girls2closet4se
Feb 8, 2009, 11:25 AM
After being out of water for 30 hours and calling our water company to make a visit at 2:30 AM we finally know what is wrong.. .
They disconnected the pipes at the street.. . had water. Our regulator went bad/full of junk. This morning the hubby went to Home Depot put one on and I have water!! YIPPEE!!