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Watched a guy in Amarillo patch a burst pipe with a soda bottle and a hose clamp, now I can't decide if that's smart or nuts
Last month my neighbor's pipe burst during that freeze and a plumber quoted him $450 for an emergency call, so he cut a soda bottle, clamped it over the split with two hose clamps, and it held. Half of me says that's a real fix worth keeping in the truck, the other half says one warm day and he's mopping his hallway again, where do you all land on this?
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barbara_grant410d ago
That soda bottle trick works way better on PVC than people give it credit for, but it's not the bottle doing the heavy lifting. The hose clamps are what seal it, since they squeeze the plastic tight against the pipe and hold the pressure, and a warm day alone won't pop it off if they're cranked down good. The real weak spot is the plastic itself getting brittle from heat and sun, so it's a fine roadside save but I'd still swap in a proper coupling once the hardware store opens.
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