I called pushing 3 pm on a Friday with what seemed to be a leak in the main water line from the water meter. The leak was filling the meter box and into the street, so it was somewhere underground. I had called around but unless I wanted to pay emergency repair prices, the earliest appointments were Monday morning. With a full house that was not going to work, so I agreed to dig the 2' down and then 2' over to the box under the sidewalk for them to arrive to see if they could splice the line or they would have to get a fitting to reconnect back into the meter. I exposed the line as he drove up and we identified the leak immediately when we turned the water back on. Being a tract home in a subdivision it was a standard line so he had the hardware to splice it, the easiest of repairs by far. Less than a half hour of expertise, the hardware, and its installation ran me $200. I was very happy to have water once again and throughout the weekend and not to have paid emergency prices. It took another hour to fill it back in, so this was several hours of work that could have cost upward of $1,000, but working together on the issue we were able to do it before the end of the business day and week.