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I had a little disaster today. It began with my neighbor and friend (also a member here - MG or monarogirl), coming over to tell me that I had water escaping from somewhere....

Long story short....the pipe from my front tap had died - apparently again.

MG and I inspected the area saturated by water and dug a little....we found that it had obviously had issue before as someone had tried to fix it. They had put a rubber tubing around the copper pipe and used hose claps to keep it secure...they then gaffer taped it - loads and loads of gaffer tape.

I managed to cut away the piping, tape and hose clamps and exposed yet another problem. My front tap had just been slid into the copper pipe and the clamps were all that was holding it together...

Well, it had obviously been working ok so far. I've been here for 18 years nearly and no issues with it so far....

I dug a further down to make sure there was no other issues with the remaining pipe and thankfully there wasn't.

I don't use the front tap at all so I decided to cap the copper pipe off and bury it. Something MG and I did - on our own and with limited tools....

If I do say so myself....we did a top job!! Don't think I'm going to be walking for a month - I used body parts I never knew I had...but the job was done and this time correctly. I think, I hope....