Arrived in tusmore today at 1100 and booked a water main shut down with sawater and notified the unit owners that the water would be off for a few hours not knowing the problems we faced from tree roots pushing the manifold to the copper unions wouldn’t line up and with water flowing we continued to bail out the water to see what we could do the fix the many leaks on this failed copper 40mm supply manifold - we replaced the elbow which was heated to stretch to suit the new angle as the tree roots had pushed under the meter and replaced both the 32 and 25 union rubbers to seal the copper using two loose nut fittings in a very tight location all the while making sure we didn’t have the water off for too long and back on at 5 pm - patience and persistence with win every time till the next challenge see u later pb