大手町英語倶楽部コミュのWater leak

My wife complained to me about strange sound from a washstand in the Sunday morning.
She said she couldn't sleep well because of it.
Actually, the washstand had been making a strange noise.

I tuned all of taps off, but waterworks meter was still working.
I thought the water was leaking somewhere.
Then I called to the waterworks department.
He said it wasn't his business, it was mine.
I thought " what an icy guy!"
Then he gave me some phone numbers of contractors.
Does it need to dig a hole?...........How much cost I'll have to pay?
I was bummed out.

After a while.
I thought it might not be underground.
Then I removed a couple of tatami and floor planks, and got into under the floor, I crawled around under the floor to search the leak part. Fortunately I found it soon.
The water leaked from the pipe under the kitchen.
It was a tiny hole on the copper pipe.

I was supposed to fix it by solder at first.
But it didn't work.
Then I've tried some ways to fix it.
But they also didn't work.
I couldn't sweat it under the floor.

After that, I stuck a toothpick and fixed it by gummed tape.
It's keeping it up by now.

It took all day long.
We couldn't have a lunch at home, then we ate out. ............It was my only outgo.

I thanked for a Japanese house had a space under the floor.