You May Not Want to Fix Leaks On Your Own

Do-It-Yourselfers beware! It is best to let the experts fix leaks. The vast majority of novices cannot successfully fix leaks on their own. Those novices who can make their own pipe repairs usually have some background knowledge about pipes and pipe repairs.

Here is a common scenario of do-it-yourselfers who wish to fix leaks on their own:

A homeowner seeking to fix leaks in his pipes begins to do so. The washing machine’s water had come up from under the house through the wooden floor of his very old cottage and the crawl space beneath the entire house exposed all of his plumbing. The two small leaks are on the first bend of the pipe under the house. He does not think it will be difficult to do the pipe repairs because he even knows how to cut pipe and he knows how to solder pipes. They are such small pipe repairs anyways he thinks.

The man crawls beneath his house with his pipe cutter in hand, and then crawls right back out because he forgets to turn off the water main. Then, he crawls back under and makes his first cut. He gets wet. He dries everything up, perseveres, and finishes fixing leaks in his pipes.

The man, who is feeling good about his work, crawls out from under the house to turn on the water main. He smiles at his wife then goes back under the house to check that he has stopped the leaks. As expected, there are no more leaks under the washing machine. What is not expected is that the pipe repairs that he made on that area of pipe disturbed the pipe enough so that it causes another leak two feet up the pipeline. Unfortunately, the repair of the new leak caused yet another leak. Every one of the pipe repairs that he made caused the need for more pipe repairs until he finally gets enough pipes to repipe the whole house and spends two weeks of his free time under the house in a crawlspace making all of the pipe repairs.

To avoid this type of scenario and the extreme hassle that fixing your own leaks can result in hire a professional to fix your leaks.