Water leakage

This is the third time that we 've leakage in our house. This time it's quite serious, because I don't know when it start "massive" leaking. I woke up this morning and found that our bathroom is flood with lots of water.

it is really broken into two pieces. this is what's left attached to my wall.

I found that our pipe connector was just broken into 2 pieces. It occurred before stop-valve so there's no choice but to stop water coming to both of our bathrooms. Today me and my wife have to use water stocked from bucket by our external or kitchen faucet.

The problem occurred because we use galvanize-base pipe connector. All 3 leakages have exactly the same problem. Either water supply in Thailand is not clean enough, or the galvanize pipe connector is not durable enough. I don't know which one. But I'll not using this type of connector again. This is just about a year and a half since my house is finished.

The copper-base connector seems to be more durable. I bought one ready for this fix.

copper-base pipe connector. Thai name is "เกลียวนอกเกลียวใน"

From the quick look, this is the last joint with galvanize connector. Hope that our showers is not connected with galvanize.

Right now I'm still waiting for water supply technician to help me. I don't dare to fix it myself or it might broken the PVC pipe, which will lead to a lot of chaos.

Update 12:00pm

The fix was just finished. I found a lots of tip

1. Don't use lead or galvanize connector. It's fragile. Use copper instead.

2. Don't use plier to wheel the connector to PVC pipe. It might break the pipe, especially after some demolition using nail to demolish the rest of connector

3. Use lots of rubber tape for the connector, don't put stop-valve directly with PVC pipe. It might break PVC pipe when moved. Copper connector can help lessen the force apply to the pipe


The key to destroy the connector is by using concrete nail. Slowly and softly hammer the rest of connector with concrete nail. Be patient.