Water leaks are not green.

Sometimes they are putrid. Sometimes they are clear. Sometimes they are muddy.

Any water leak can be a headache. Little drips from kitchen faucets add up to lots of water wasted unnecessarily. Big running water from a large busted pipe adds up quickly to a lot of water wasted.

We don’t like to waste water. We try to be as environmentally friendly, or as green as possible in all aspects of our lives.

Then comes a water leak.

We awoke to water gushing around the garage floor, from an initially undetermined location. After turning the water off, and cleaning up the mess, we finally found the problem. Seems the discharge for the water source geothermal heat pump busted. The worse part? It didn’t break inside the house but rather outside, somewhere, under the dirt. The water was then looking for the best escape and decided that under my foundation was the best place. Then, with nowhere to go it managed to surface at the floor seam between the wall and the floor, way back in the corner of the garage, behind the solar water tank, behind the water pressure tank… … …

Luckily for us the weather is nice this week, so we turned off the heat pump and waited for the plumber.

The greenest solution available was to run a new water line. Won’t tell you what it cost to replace…