Client called us out today due to a water line leak inside the garage just above the water heater in the wall. It had caused a good bit of water damage in garage and to the inside pantry area as well. Referred reliable restoration to assess and deal with the water cleanup and put back. Due to the location of the leak, I had to uninstall the water heater to get access to the pipe in order to make the repair. Uninstalled the 2 yr old water heater then found a split 3/4” hot pex line just before it went up into the attic to feed rest of home. This is second leak on this same section of piping. This time, there was a split in the pipe about 2” long water was spraying out of. Removed tang section and repaired with a couple fittings and some pex a water piping. Before installing water heater back we tested for Leaks, there are none. Proceeded to reinstall the water heater and added new ball valve shutoff and new properly supported thermal expansion tank per code, as the previous install was
