davenlei
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So I have a pinhole leak in a pipe in my garage ceiling. I cut away the drywall and have located the pipe and leak. I was considering the following three options:
1) Get a plumber. Since I exposed the pipe and located the issue, repair will be about $130 sweating (soldering) a new section of pipe in place.
2) Getting a torch, flux, solder, steel wool and pipe joint (~$50) and sweating the section in place by myself. (I have a lot of PCB soldering experience and am considered an experienced handyman with the house/cars but have not sweated plumbing before).
3) Using a shark bite (gator bite, etc.) (~$8) to replace the pinhole leak pipe section without sweating the pipes.
I plan on living here a long time so I am leaning to solution #1 due to it not being too expensive and leaving it to someone who has sweated thousands of pipes in the past.
Anyone with experience doing #2 or #3 in the past?
1) Get a plumber. Since I exposed the pipe and located the issue, repair will be about $130 sweating (soldering) a new section of pipe in place.
2) Getting a torch, flux, solder, steel wool and pipe joint (~$50) and sweating the section in place by myself. (I have a lot of PCB soldering experience and am considered an experienced handyman with the house/cars but have not sweated plumbing before).
3) Using a shark bite (gator bite, etc.) (~$8) to replace the pinhole leak pipe section without sweating the pipes.
I plan on living here a long time so I am leaning to solution #1 due to it not being too expensive and leaving it to someone who has sweated thousands of pipes in the past.
Anyone with experience doing #2 or #3 in the past?