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Replacing a water service - part 1

by Collin De Ruyck on April 14th, 2008

In today’s video I will explain to you a certain situation that I have gone through recently at my home. My water service to my house decided to blow up in my front yard a few weeks back and I decided that it would make a great video series to show you all the steps I had to go through in order to get water restored to my house, as I went a whole week with no water and man was that a long week for all of us here.


One of the first things the contractor I hired and I went through was relocating my water service and meter to a new location in my house. The current location for it was under my basement bathroom vanity which is ceramic tiled and would of been a huge pain to remove. It also would of cost me a lot more money to replace my service to the same location so when the contractor and I discussed my options it was a lot better to move to a new location in order to save me the time and money of destroying a bathroom.

Watch today’s video then continue reading the post below!

The next 4 video’s in this series on “replacing a water service” get very interesting so make sure you stop by over the next week to check them out. What you will see is the whole process I have had to go through including the entire excavation with the crews and there very expensive equipment.

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