Identify and Expose the Leak

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Easy Repair Of PVC Water Line!

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Begin by identifying the exact location of the leak in the garden's irrigation system. In this case, the ground is already softened by the leak, making excavation easier. Use a shovel to carefully dig away the soil around the leaking pipe. As you dig, you may encounter roots, which should be trimmed or removed using loppers to fully expose the broken pipe and surrounding fittings.

Goal: Locate the leak in the PVC irrigation pipe system and carefully dig around it to expose the damaged section.

Tools and materials

Loppers
Shovel

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All right. So, I came over to my mother-in-law's. She has got a leak right here in her garden. We're get all this stuff cleared out. We're going to dig. Going to find what our issue is. We're going to fix it. She turned the water on, so the ground was a little soft for me, which is digging. Lay that down right now. Get it a little kneeler as well. All right. Cracked it just a little bit. Got a little busted 90. So, as I'm digging with the gardening shovel here, you can start to notice a bunch of roots. I had to pull out the loppers, clip them around. I think that's probably what ended up cracking this pipe over time was a root just growing up and eventually popping the PVC. We got to go

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