Hi all came back home 2 days ago just to find possible leak notice on my gate, from my water company. Followed their "how to determine where the leak is" procedure on the back of the notice. here's findings: 1. With main shut off valve turned off, little star shaped dial spins. Not too fast, but it does. 2. When main valve to the house was turned back on, dial barely moves. Very minor "jerks". So far, it apparently indicates outside the valve leak, from valve to meter. I have roughly 30-40 feet of piping from the shut off valve to the foundation. I, also, have, judging from the meter location, my main line covered by about 160 feet of asphalt. Bummer. House is 9 yo. NO signs of any drainage or leaks whatsoever anywhere outside. Shut off valve shuts down water supply to EVERYTHING, including irrigation (was not turned on this summer, due to very cold weather) and bibs. Is there anything I still need to do, before I call it quits and call very expensive plumber? For some reason, they are predatory around here. Also, what should be a reasonable fee for leak detection under the driveway? I had quotes running into $500 just for that. Should take only what, half an hour or so, right? Open to suggestions. Alternative is to simply run a bypass line across driveway side flowerbed, but I'll have to disassemble retention wall, move bark+soil, dig trench, cut asphalt anyway to release access to meter, and repair everything thereafter. And still call a plumber to do install. Trenching here is a nightmare, it's so rocky. Good Samaritan suggestions?

Hi guys! is it possible that, when the full bathroom was added in our walkout basement, instead of running the vent pipe up through the roof or linking it to the existing vent pipe which i assume runs up thru the roof, they just ran it up the wall & out the side of the house? because there is a 4" pvc pipe coming out of the wall at what would be just above ceiling height (for the basement) and it's directly under our deck which comes off the upper floor & it stinks to high heaven in that area outside. what else would a 4" pvc pipe coming out of the house - horizontally - be for??? and this smell - reminiscent of the outhouse at Girl Scout Camp when i was a kid - wafts clear across our paved patio area & across the in-ground swimming pool, which is making for a very unpleasant (and embarrassing) summer of outdoor entertaining. i also think since this is all underneath an upper deck, the smell is being concentrated in the area. IF this is a sewer vent pipe, do we just need to add more elbows & lengths of pvc to get it redirected to the side yard & more upward? thanks for any advice!