Fixing a 19 Year Old Mistake! #plumbing #fail

Nail in pipe for 19 years!

[frankierzucekjr]

Man thats wild. Who puts a soft pipe right there lol.

[rewris]

If this ever happens to you, put the nail back in immediately, turn the water main off, then secure the nail with some chewing gum, put the boards back on and leave ASAP.

[marijuonko]

We moved in a house that a old lady lived in before us. 15 years ago she had a leaky pipe in the kitchen ceiling fixed. Well it started leaking again and when we removed the drop ceiling we realized the plumber put a giant tray under the leak with sponges stacked on it. Lmfao lasted 15 years before the problem showed itself. Damn corrupt contractors.

[kovacsemod]

Don't forget to reinstall the nail in the pipe once you've put the skirting back on

[customcreations-rickkramer]

Dont put your lines so low to the ground! Raise them above the boards...easy fix ..forever!

[seanyd]

So if you've got a leak in your water pipes call a yes man!

[krzysztofkuliberda]

The quality of this repair is amazing 😂😂😂

[williammorris]

I had a repair a month ago that I found was a nail shot into a waterline and had finally rusted away enough to leak

[koikeeping]

Compression fittings are suppose to be accessible not used in hidden places

[trxtech]

just put the nail back in the pipe and seal the wall back up.

[GoldVP...]

Yup...happened with me...lines should never be that low

[lorenblaine]

Was a house where a door frame was seeming to loosen connection to the wall. Contractor found most of the wood around the door was rotted, thought the seal around the door caused problem. As they opened up more and more of the wall, realized it was from above. In the end it was not the second story, but third story wall where a pipe had been nailed during construction 10 years before. These were support walls and it had also gone into the flooring some. Basically half the house had to be rebuilt

[unstablenester]

I had that exact experience a finishing nail rusted out and the copper pipe started to leak but for over 20 years the nail held the pressure.

[arnewoodman]

Reminded me of something at my first job. Company had moved into a new office, the boss was unhappy at the way carpet tiles kept moving and wanted to fix it. So he went all around the edge banging nails into the floor through the carpet tiles. The floor slowly becam wet then started to flood. He had put nails through the underfloor heating.

[johnburns]

Lol, I had one of these old holes, but it "self plugged" because a piece of crud in the pipe lodged into the hole.

[MrEarnxtracash]

That happened in our kitchen with a three inch stack. Removed a screw holding the vent fan and a 15 year builder mistake reveals itself…. Thank god I was a plumber when I was in my 20s!

[muppit]

If this ever happens to you, try to find out who the cowboy (sorry plumber) was and cross them off your list of people to call out for an emergency.

[RiggyRonnie]

I think the real problem is the houses got like 7psi of water pressure

[stevetheplumberbreeding]

I've had to repair several of these over the years! Fun times

[ronniewatts]

This has happened to me multiple times on pex and copper and they never leaked, I even got called out to a doctors office to fix a leak where they were renovating and someone had put the base board on with sheet rock screws right at the floor, so I had to chip out concrete to fix the hole in copper.