I inspected the pipe repair yesterday and the repair looked questionable. So, I've been keeping a close eye on this. The pipes were not left under pressure. Trip to home depot last night for female-to-female coupler, so I could connect a hose to pressurize the pipes. Low and behold this morning I am down 5psi. I had thought a leak would show up almost immediately under pressure, but this one is slow. Turns out the repaired area is leaking...slow drip. I was here when the pipe was damaged and immediately intervened. The plumber couldn't immediately come out, so they just continued to frame. Now the area is hard to access. I can kinda understand this as they had a convoy of trucks coming and rain was in the forecast for the next day. When I sent the plumber a message about the leak today, he blamed the framing/sand bags being in the way. Okay people, here is the new plan: do this right! Patio guy is coming back to open up the forms and remove sand bags. Then the plumber coming back to fix it properly. This way every time I turn on my spa jets I don't lose an inch of water.
The patio/concrete pour has been the worst part of this build so far. They were supposed to bring in screened roadbase, so I had a nice fill around the pipes. They brought in standard roadbase and when the owner called the supplier they told him they didn't have any sreened material. Fortunately, I had previously brought in some sand to get the main areas I was worried about and the main trench and pipe runs are still open and will get screened roadbase. I had to stop these guys from driving another stake into another pipe and had to periodically check in on these guys. The owner uttered the dreading words: "I had to bring in a second crew to get this done quickly." In other words, half the crew were strangers to him.