Under Slab Pipe Leak Fix

[electronman1729]

Does anyone do pipe repair for under slab pipe leaks? Can someone PM me and we can discuss.
I know I have to tear up my slab to fix my pipe.
Thanks

[Byte Stryke]

Does anyone do pipe repair for under slab pipe leaks? Can someone PM me and we can discuss.
I know I have to tear up my slab to fix my pipe.
Thanks



You Misspelled 'Jackhammer and concrete saw'

[newracer]

What type of pipe? There are companies that can seal it in place.

[Lurch]

Depending on the size of the pipe you my be able to slide a piece of PEX into the existing pipe.

[electronman1729]

What type of pipe? There are companies that can seal it in place.

I looked into this and had a camera down my pipe this weekend. It was in too bad of shape to do this.
Figured I ask someone here on the forum than ask someone I randomly found on the internet.

[BuffCyclist]

Reroute the water line. If its under the slab, it will be extremely expensive (and very messy) to fix.

I just did this, though I got lucky and the leak was in my front yard. Rerouted the line with PEX from the street meter to the garage, into the attic and attached it to our water softener that was already running in the attic.

Or is that not an option?

[BPTactical]

^^^ pretty much what he said. If you had it camera'ed it was a drain, correct? We had the kitchen sink drain collapse under the slab. It took me all of 40 minutes to cut the old stack and reroute it under the joists to the main stack.
No hubs are your friends.

[w748]

BuffCyclist has the best idea so far if you can make it work. I once had to tunnel under my slab to find where the river was flowing from , not fun at all , but I couldn't tell where it was until I got there.
Good luck!

[Wulf202]

Abandon it if at all possible.

[electronman1729]

I have a 2" cast iron pipe the only way to fix it is to pretty much cut my slab. Its a drain line for the sink and pretty much all the water in draining under my slab. Luckily with the the pipe layout its not part of the main stack and not raw sewage leaking under my slab.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Dunecrazy from this forum is a plumber. Might check him out.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

On a much lighter note...


You can probably do the work yourself because you only need to know three things to be a plumber...

1. Shit runs down hill
2. Don't chew on your finger nails
3. Payday is on Friday


just kidding all you plumbers, don't get offended. I'm just an early retired old iron worker turned HVAC tech.

[SideShow Bob]

I lived in an old farm house that was remodeled had the bathroom relocated. The sewage flowed to a tank with a built in lift pump that pumped it to the septic system. I don't know what it was called, maybe a similar smaller unit could save you from tearing up the slab for a non sewage problem.