This seems to be my week for stupid plumbing problems.
I’ve replaced all the exposed PVC drainwork my plumber put in except one fitting, and now I see that his one remaining fitting has a tiny leak at the hub. It’s a 3″ wye mounted on the vertical stack. There is a 3″ fitting right above it and right below it, with not enough space between them to cut it out and put a new one in. To replace I would have to remove all three wyes and re-do them, leaving couplers all over the place in the wake of the repairs, looking like shoddy work. I would rather not do that.
Is there a way to get that hub sealed without removing it? Can you just smear more glue around the fitting? It’s the bottom (downhill) hub of the main part of the wye that’s leaking.
Steve
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Go to the hardware store and get a 1 can each of solvent and glue and any piece of pvc fitting that the store sells. Cut a small piece of pvc off the new fitting and glue it over the leak in the existing PVC. Drain the pvc pipe if water is present, sandpaper the spot where the leak is, apply some solvent to the "patch" and the scratched surface of the existing pvc then glue the patch onto the leaking fitting.
Also if you can seal off the drains then seal all all of the opening except for one and connect shop vac to. Then put some of the glue on the leak and try and pull it in..
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
It may not look as good but drip drip drip is shody.
that 3" has ? like 2" of joint so a smear will not mate the hub to not leak.
cut it out and fix the leak. Prime it first. And in the middle is gonna be a no hub/fernco style fitting.
Or if you can find them would be good=
PVC Slip Coupling 3”
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PVC Slip Coupling 3”
3 inch slip by 3 inch slip PVC coupling
Edited 5/23/2008 5:57 pm by ClaysWorld