how to monitor for leaks under your house?

A cat who is very afraid of water!!! When the cat comes shooting out from under the house with wet whiskers, you got a leak!

OR

A cat or dog who can talk!!!!

OR

A good place to keep a naggy wife, who will nag even more when she gets soaked!

AND/OR FINALLY

Pay the neighbor's kid $20 per day (plus meals) to live under the house and watch for leakers!

Made me laugh pretty hard! Thank you!

Google 'water leak detector' - $5- ???? [I'll bet you can spend a grand if you want]

I made one once to keep an eye on the first sharkbite fitting I used. A battery, a buzzer, and some bell cord. Water completes the circuit and the buzzer buzzes.

Here's 6 for $40- just one style-- there are loads of them-- but the principle is the same.

all that said-- What kind of pipe 'sprung a leak'. Galvanized? Replace it all right now because it *will* continue to break. PVC? Bad joint? -redo them all because the guy who put them together likely did them all the same.

Copper joint--same as above.

Jim

Maybe someone is missing the toilet bowl in the morning ?

Copper pipe.

Thank you!

recently I saw a copper pipe develop a pin hole, the wall thickness was very thin.....

by the time I arrived it was fixed my realtive had called a plumber..........

If you want to monitor for leaks under a crawl space cover the entire ground with heavy plastic sheets overlaped and taped together, create a low spot or multiple spots, and install water alarms.....

When a leak occurs it will collect at the low spots, and sound the alarm:)

If you connect a piece of ordinary lamp cord to the 2 points in a smoke detector that are bridged when you pust the test button and then put the other end of the cord where water will drain to, bare about

Does your water meter have a flow gauge? The meters in our town have as part of the gauge a dial that spins very quickly even if there is little flow.

of the gauge a dial that spins very quickly even if there is little flow.

I think so. I will have to check. Any particular tool to get the iron lid off the top?

Had the same pin hole. Had four inches of water by the time it was discovered.

Thank you!

Damn I sure do, too! I end up wearing coveralls, a balaclava, and a respirator when go in there, along with a can of spider juice to knock out the black widows when I find them.

After I spend a few minutes under there I'm usually pretty happy, though, as it's cool, dark, and peacefully quiet. Well, until I have to start working, anyway.

Jon