Ah, the joys of home ownership

[Rich]

About 2 months ago I had water rinning down the street starting at my house. Called a plumber and he fixed a cracked PVC pipe. About a month ago same problem, but this time we couldn't find it so we replaced the line going into the house with copper instead of PVC. So, all told I'm out about $1000 bucks and two rods (traded a couple I don't use for a couple of hour's labor ;D ). Guess what? Noticed water out front, opened up the meter housing and it was full of water. Had the plumber back out but there was no water usage showing up on the meter, so we figured it was the water that was in the bypassed pipe draining out. I just went out and scooped all the water out of the meter housing and yep, you got it, ANOTHER leak. However, this one is not on my side of the meter, so it is the city's responsibility. At least i don't have to pay for that-directly any way. Now I get to see my taxes at work ;D