Filed under: Cash for Grass | Tags: blue, cash, Cash for Grass, grass, pickaxe, pipe, PVC, repair, sage, water
Remember the pickaxe and water line thing? Apparently the broken line was to the drip system I still need. I know this because not long after turning it on the other day, a river bubbled up from underneath the blue sage I planted over the obviously unsuccessful repair.
Today was the first day I have worked on the yard since getting sick. My one task today was to do a full repair with no short cuts. This involved removing all the rock I had laid over a few square yards, unplanting the blue sage, and digging a hole big enough to bury a Honda Civic around the break so I could cut away the failed repair and inset a new piece of PVC.
Repaired pipe
After repair (looks same as before, but without river bubbling up from beneath)
Filed under: Cash for Grass | Tags: blue, break, cash, clevelandii, compression, coupling, grass, pickaxe, pipe, PVC, sage, salvia, sprinkler, water
AAARGH!
I was carefully digging one little hole for my last salvia clevelandii (blue sage), when a PVC water line snuck into my hole and jumped in front of my pickaxe. I had to carefully excavate a large hole around it without breaking it further in order to get to the damage. There were actually three parallel water lines all next to each other. Fortunately only one decided to commit suicide. I don’t know if the broken line feeds the drip irrigation systems I still need in the side or back of the house, or the sprinklers I don’t care about anymore. I decided not to cause a geyser to find out.
I went out and bought a compression coupling to try to fix it. The coupling looked barely long enough for the break, which was about 2 inches wide, but it seemed to work. I turned the water on, and nothing exploded, so either the break was to a disabled sprinkler system and I don’t care, or I actually fixed it. I filled it all back in and planted the sage on top of the “repair”. Since I didn’t start until noon today, the incident basically cost me all progress for the day and any possibility of finishing before Christmas, plus $4 for the coupling.
