Woman vs. Water Pipes

Reader Contribution by Robyn Dolan
Published on July 23, 2015
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There’s no place like home, and I still consider my Arizona homestead my home base. It seems that every time I stop there for a couple of days, I have to fix the water line just to get water into the house. I guess that’s how it goes. Water pipes freeze and break in the winter when the weather gets cold. The way I have it set up for full-time living is not working for our stopovers, so I have to formulate a new plan of attack.

I had nearly all the parts on hand to make the repair, except for elbows. The elbows hadn’t burst in the prior two or three freezes. So since I had to get elbows anyway, I picked up some flex hose and clamps as well. I also got a couple of fittings to install another gate valve at the tank, so that when the house lines or water pump are down, we can at least still fill water jugs to bring in for washing and such.

The problem: The pipe is broken from the backflow valve to the elbow.

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