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I had similar. A coupling on the main line into the house was faulty and filled my crawl space soon after moving in. Our water company was who noticed the extra use and contacted us. Out water bill was a bit high
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Surprisingly our water bill was only $20 more than normal, but water is dirt cheap here anyway. Our normal bill is around $35/mo.
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04-29-2017, 12:40 PM | #25 |
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Got the repair bill from the plumber. Only $139. I'll gladly pay that to have avoided crawling into that nasty crawlspace.
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04-29-2017, 02:54 PM | #26 |
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Nice! better than some ridiculous $500+!
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currently just finished mowing and overseeding the lawn and adding fertilizer as well as adding new black mulch which was on sale at Home Depot for the EarthGro for $2 a bag. seems like from what the neighbors tell me the previous owners never took care of their lawn. they were estatic to see us actually out putting mulch and fertilizing the yard!
who else has house projects going on? i'm just now sealing up all my crown moulding and painting them Satin White. i'll post some pictures later
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I had a bunch of dying hedges removed and some underground drainage piping installed to move the downspout output further away from the house. I also had a bunch of trees removed. Some were dying and in danger of falling, and some were just too close to the house. The landscaper is going to bring in several truckloads of new soil and some new hedges and shrubs, plus he's going to fill a few areas with river stones and put in some sett stones. But we haven't had a decent stretch with no rain and it got even worse this weekend, so he won't be able to get in here with all that stuff for another week at least *if* it dries out some. The yard is a quagmire now.
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The original bath/washer room had a small leak for years apparently. The tub cast in 1949 must have weighed 350lbs. The floor rotted and the tub slowly fell into subfloor. Now we have new joists/tile and no more mold I did all but the joists on my own |
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Rotten 2nd floor wood trim around the roof is our next project. This is the same trim that was 'fixed' when we bought the house three years ago.
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Owning a house into Germany, especially into Bavaria a non-reachable goal, if you hadnt heritaged a suitable ground for building one. Prices are exploding around all bigger areas and just buying a flat here into our 11000 souls nest are meanwhile out of the question.
But: A goal further away is, when im going to retire within the next 15 years, to buy a pretty house up into the north of my country, thats more countryish and much more cheaper to buy. @isturbointeg: Thats a very nice house there, right my choice for the future
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Worse leak I ever had to deal with was in the brand new house.
The house had a Jacuzzi hot tube in the master bath, we and never had one so we decide to use it before heading to bed. Next morning came down stairs to make breakfast only to find the entire kitchen floor completely wet, look up and the ceiling was sagging about a foot with water dripping. Turns out the plumber who install the tub forgot to tighten all the fitting on the tub since it was the first time he ever installed a tub like this one and the manufacturer recommends the fitting be retighten after install and testing. We called the builder since we were only in the house two months, and he came back and saw all the damage and agreed to fix everything. Lucky for us the kitchen floors was Tile and none of the HVAC vents were on the floor otherwise the water would have poured into the furnace. The other issue was the tub did not have an access panel to the plumbing and they were thinking they would have to tear all the tiles and everything to gains access. As it turn out the water supply and motors and such were all on the wall next to the bed room so they could gain access to what the need from there. There was thousands of $ in damage and took the builder a week to repair dry out and repair everything. Beyond this, I had only minor faucet leaks and such. I personally hate doing plumbing repairs, I can do everything else on my house and have but when it comes to plumbing, I always end up with leaks after I am done. |
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I imagine you do not have people coming to your house reading the meter anymore. Like everyone else you probably have an wireless electronic meter who phone home your usage. I wonder if there is some sort of setting on the meet that sends a message to the water company that say the water is flowing at an unusual rate. I doubt they looking at each person bill and letting them know something might be wrong.
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my issue now is i've been looking into our sprinkler system and according to the neighbors cost to use the sprinkler system during say the summertime when there's not much rain cost go anywhere from $600-$1000! also, i saw a receipt from the previous owners sitting on the water sprinkler control panel and i saw for Winterization $6700! now i don't know if that's just money owed throughout the year or if that's what it cost to winterize. i'm afraid to even turn the sprinklers on but i really need to know where all the sprinkler heads are so i can flag them before aerating the yard any ideas?
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^^ This ^^ but if don't have a drain get one of those Liner/shallow tub trays from Lower/Home Depot and put a audible water sensing alarm in it.
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As for the $600-$1000, maybe they watered every day for hours? I run mine 3 days per week for about 2 hours and that's plenty in the summer. My increase is only about $100/month. |
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To put in a watering system for my place it was going to cost me $10K, plus water usage. I even have a natural spring on my property and lots of water comes up from the ground and the Environmental Police in the town will not allow me to use ground water to water my lawn since it was a protect wet land. Did not know I had protect wet lands on my property. The town runs the well and water and sewage system so they have interest in letting people get off cheap. |
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