Water Leak

We had a big scare today! Brian got a call from the water company that our neighbor noticed more water going through the storm drain in front of her house the past few weeks. When they looked at our meter we we had over 100,000 gallons more water usage. They sent someone to the house to walk around and didn't notice anything suspicious on the outside, but my first though was great, does that mean something is broke inside? Brian was able to take the day off since there were no surgeries scheduled for the day. This was luck because the whole week before and after they had 2 or 3 which means he would have been in surgery all day and not able to take care of this. When he got to the house, he didn't find any water inside (thank goodness!), but did figure out the leak was between the house and the street. Looking around he found the area where we turn off the sprinkler system was underwater. Calling the plumber he found out it was going to be $1-2,000 to fix, not a price he wanted to pay! So, that got Brian motivated to figure this out himself. He started digging and found the leaking pipe at the connection to the house and the sprinkler system. A trip to Home Depot for a part that cost him $3.45 and a whole day of digging, he fixed it! He was tired, wet and full of mud, but felt great that he figured it out. Remembering back to the summer we started noticing a "flushing" sound outside our kitchen window. Since it was a new house, we had no idea what it was and if it was normal, but since it wasn't happening very frequent we left it alone and kept an eye on it. Well, that "flushing" sound got more frequent the last couple of weeks. Now that we found the leak what had been happening was the water level was rising high enough to seep into the hole where the pipe came into the foundation. Luckily the previous owners put in a sump pump so we didn't have any damage to the foundation. Now we know what that "flushing" sound is we are super aware when it goes off again. I just have to laugh because Brian has learned so much from owning this house. Shortly after we moved in our fridge went out, so he figured out how to fix that. Then awhile later our stove and water fountain went out and now the leak. Each has been a fairly cheap fix, but could have been a lot more expensive if Brian wasn't such a fix-it man! Good job honey!