My mother owns a house just up the street from out family cottage. Which works out well as our cottage does not have running water. However as the house was closed up over the winter we ran into some problems. Mainly the sump pump burned out and the basement flooded with water. On top of this the platform holding the water pump finally rotted away and collapsed leaving everything dangling from a single pipe.
We bought a new sump pump and drained the basement and set to work removing all of the years of crap plumbing and stuck together bits in an effort to remove as many of the future potential leaks as possible. We also installed a number of shut off valves as any that were down there either went to some long ago piece of pipe that no longer exists or where so badly corroded they refused to move. Some did both and just slowly dripped showing their age.
I failed to get any before pictures but grabbed some after everything was redone.
I should also mention that I did all of the solder connections and didn’t have a single leak. Not bad for a guy who’s only training was soldering electronics and DIY shows on TV.
