Steve Fessenden (63.25.54.125)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2001 - 9:14 pm: | |
My coach has a shut off valve and a riser under each sink, icemaker, for toilet etc. It also has shut offs in the bay.
I recommend that you have no fittings and shut off valves in the coach. Only under the floor in a bay.
I just had two leaks in those lines that seemed to be coming from somewhere else. Wet carpet. We were on a steep slope so it pooled near the foot of the bed. Would not have had one leak if it the connection was below the floor.
Two ways of searching for a leak.
1. Wrap a paper towel or a piece of sponge around the pipes under the sinks in several places. Hold it in place with a clothes pin or clamp. Wait a while. The leak is between the wet sponge and the next dry one above it.
2. To check for hidden leaks, undo the fittings from the faucets one at a time and connect to a pressure guage. Open valve to that line with pressure in system. Close valve. See if pressure drops within half an hour to an hour.
If pressure does not drop that is not the leaking circuit. Move on.
(Buy a rainbird pressure guage at the sprinkler system section of a hardware or Building Supply. It has a female hose connection and you can buy fittings to adapt from that to compression fittings, pipe fittings, flare fittings, etc.)
Steve Fessenden |