Any ideas on how to stop a slow drip on PVC connection after you glued it? I do not want to take it apart and do it again. Red circle is the seam where there is a leak.

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I would re cut and re glue . Use the combo of solvent and glue.... may even rough up the surfaces with sand paper.

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Best is to just redo. Your not likely to get glue to fill in in that position. Looks like you have that side a quarter inch too long before the 90.

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No way to permanently bandaid that.

Needs to be redone. Looks like you used some leverage to bend the pvc into place.

This will burst eventually.

All I can say is short cutting any plumbing results in failure in the end. You can probably use a torch to heat that glue back up where your leak is, then pull apart. Shorten your vertical just a bit so it’s not angled then reglue.

The only legitimate long term solution other than redoing it is to fibawrap it. You take gauze, soak it in 2 part epoxy and wrap around the leak.

I did this hundreds of times on a boat I used to work on. Fixed leaks in high pressure salt water lines in old rotten cast iron lines and it would hold for longer than the steel. Not sure if that’s any easier in this case than just redoing it though.

Good advice here. But I think Josh is right. Redoing it is the best option

OK cool, nice to know!

Put a flower put under it so it is no longer a leak, it is drip irrigation.

This happened to me once. I smeared more glue around the seam and it’s fine now. Def not proper, but definitely worked.

I did that, might try that one more time. Not a huge deal, selling house anyway. Is Texas so a drop of water will help that area :)

Make sure you don’t generate too much negative house karma lol. It carries over to the next one

filthy workaround maybe... but using a soldering iron to melt the pvc of the two parts together all around the seam should work in my book.

Redo or call it drip and be lazy.

im 50/50 which way I lean.

Whats all is the brass fitting?

All the suburban homes have them to prevent backflow from the irrigation into the home. I’m going with the lazy option, figured I’d try to see if there was an easy way to fix it.

So thats what they look like. Ive heard of them and I think at least a few of the cities around us require them, but id never seen one.