A friend faces n'hood leaks
A friend lives in a n'hood with wet roads, and they've dug to repair the leaks and then there were more leaks. He was told the leaks are at the water meters, and other places, and it's going to cost $5000 per household to fix everything.
I don't know what the pipes are made of.
The n'hood was built mostly in 1979. Is it normal for things to last only 40 years.
Or does this mean shoddy workmanship or that they bought cheap materials. Wild guesses are fine.
Yes, yes, and yes.. Depending on weather and soil conditions.
With our local (record) thaw here (after a recoed cold spell) there was a rash of watermain breaks again across Kitchener Waterloo and Cambridge area again this week. If the ground is not totally stable, or the pipes were not installed with the correct creushed stone for drainage, or the pipe was the wrong type - severe freeze-thaw will do it.
No its not with water supply pipes.
They might just be running it at too high a pressure.
There are so many ways to do the job wrong and we have so many half-ass contractors willing to do so. If the ground around the foundation doesn't drain properly, all kinds of things start breaking.
We went through that a few years ago. When the water lines were run high quality plastic that was supposed to last forever was used. It didn't and most had to be replaced. The manufacturer, of course, was long out of business.
It wasn't shoddy workmanship, just a case of believing the '70s hype of new materials. Aluminum wiring comes from the same era.
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