Who wants to see some "Bubba days gud nuff" level southern quality work?
They supposedly repaired the water leak, very personable guy. Found the cutoff valve actually had a rusted up handle, replaced that and a leaking end of pvc pipe attached to it.
The next morning literally woke up to this:
Fluctuating around 4.3-4.5 gpm.
So, it turns out, the guy removed the metal valve and pvc coupling from the copper at slab, and, replaced them with pvc which.... failed. Split through the side. They apologized and said, my bad, I'll fix it, I think there was too much stress on the connection.
Returned in the afternoon to WTF is this?:
It appears to be some omega-shaped splice into the waterline, clear code violation that requires external water feed lines buried at least 6 inches below frost line and a minimum overall of 12 inches - this thing goes above grade by 4 inches, meaning, you'd need 16" of regrade fill, including burying the lower openings of the windows below ground.
So many reason is a no-go.
I have a theory. The initial service call showed a badly corroded cutoff valve buried without an irrigation box at entry to slab, plus damage to the plastic service line. (That line damage, being perfectly round, I attribute to them striking with the metal probe.)
Their initial repair removed a brass valve and one assumes a piece of the copper feed line and replaced both with plastic. The repair cracked. My expectation is the metal line was angled and the plastic couldn't hold the strain and pressure of being at an angle. When taking up the space formerly occupied by metal. Knowing his elected repair the first visit couldn't do the job, and, not wanting to have to replace with metal the way it originally was due to time and cost, they substituted this complicated overgrown contraption.
What's worse is, a short time later the other talf turned on the kitchen faucet and said the water felt slimy and milky white. When I went to it I could smell a strong solvent smell. To the water, which, as it ran within under a minute slowed to barely a trickle albeit without the smell, all from the cold water side of things.
So, in addition to the freeze and rupture hazard code violation to sort out, I need to ascertain what happened across house in the kitchen and worry about the rest of the house plumbing including the water heater (gas) which is a rupture hazard if it's water feed dries up or is interrupted.
All while relatively incapacitated at the moment due to chemo complications, the whole reason for hiring a sussposedly licensed and bonded shop to begin with for the outside issue.
If I knew this would happen I'd have shut down the water at the meter and gone on vacation 1,2,3 months, whatever it took hoping to fix it myself when I was back and hopefully recovered.