a pipe in the back yard craked and was leaking, but the damage was right on the wall so we had to break down the two bricks surrounding it to replace it. now I have a fixed pipe, yay, but a hole in the wall, :(. how can I fix that? should i just put cement? should I spray the pipe w/ anything so it wont happen again when it gets cold?
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Re: wall/pipe damage.....
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 2:00 PMWater pipe in the back yard? Oh yeah, you're in TX.
There is no "spray" that stops cold.
If you built a little housing for the pipe and insulated it up against the wall you might siphion adequate heat from the house to prevent freezing. You don't get long hard freezes in TX often enough to defeat that measure.
Or you can do is wrap it in some heat tape. Heat tape is and electrical tape-like thermal device in the form of a plastic tape. You plug it in to an outlet. People in the north use it all the time on pipes that freeze or roof lines that collect ice and dam up water.
As to the brick. You can mortar in new bricks - you can cut bricks to fit. that'll look a lot better than some concrete.
Concrete will stick but I'd do mortar and brick. -
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Re: wall/pipe damage.....
Fri, May 2, 2008 - 2:47 PMConcrete shrinks when it dries (and will leave gaps and lots of tiny cracks).
Mortar will work for big (but not super big) areas, grout (which has the least shrink of all), for smaller areas. And for small areas where you want no shrink at all, dry pack grout (get non-shrink grout and wet it just enough so that when you clump a ball in your hand it stays together, not so much water that it squeezes through your fingers) - you can then build with it and stick it to itself like you would if you were building a sand castle on the beach.
But personally, I'd recommend trying to find some bricks that match what you took out, cut them to size, and put them in place (cut them small enough to allow a 1/4 gap on all sides, and use mortar to glue them in place.) Then do the same type of finish that it had before, to match.
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