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.
it will all work out in the end and be better with your watchful eye!
