As to shrinking the hole in your basement wall -- I had what is called a jump
wall which bridgedthe wall along the full basement area and the wall along the
crawl space area. That meant that there was a hole about 18 inches wide and 14
or 15 inches high. Water would often leak into the crawl space area but over
the last few years more and more water was coming in. I had the hole filled
with hydraulic cement (or some term similar to that) and the problem seems to
be taken care of now. That type of product would seem to work to shrink your
hole.
--
Larry Martin
Woodworking for the Blind
--joining the world of blind wood workers
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Scott Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Folks, here's another issue I need to deal with.
>
> We have this 2 by 4 foot hole in the wall where one accesses the
> water meter and shutoff valves. Here's the deal, I want to shrink
> the hole a good bit and this would also please my wife. So what I
> want to do is remove the two old gate valves which aren't really
> leaking, but if you turn them off, they tend to drip and well they
> are getting a lot of settament built up on them. I figure they are
> gonna faile and yes they do, I had this happen in my previous home.
> Well the idea is to replace these with ball-valves which are nearly
> fail proof. So, since I don't swet pipes and not sure if I could do
> it or explain to my wife how to do it, I was wondering if first would
> it be code (I live in Maryland) or could it be up to code to use
> compression fittings and secondly would it be a wise idea to begin with.
> My other thought is while I'm thinking about all this, I may look to
> a pipe replacement project at some point, either a little at a time
> or might go all out. I'm considering PEX or some similar material and
> so would need to mate this with coper since I'm working from the main
> line into the house and the meter has a valve on either side and of
> course its all coper.
> Any thought appreciated.
>
> tnx
>
> Scott
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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