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Dave VanHorn
- Jan 1, 1970
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Just for grins, how do you handle your plumbing to keep it from freezing?
Dave said:Just for grins, how do you handle your plumbing to keep it from freezing?
Dave said:Just for grins, how do you handle your plumbing to keep it from freezing?
Hi...
A few of the luckier of us have indoor plumbing nowdays...
Whatever will they think of next?
Seriously, it's no problem... I froze my water line
where it enters the house once many many years ago;
but 'twas my own fault, and easily cured. Finished
the basement, put R40 insulation on the outer walls.
Left the water line (where it exits the meter) tight
against the concrete wall so it was insulated from any
house heat.
One of my neighbors is in the Caribbean as we speak;
I go over daily and empty his mail box; go inside and
turn on one of the cold water taps, flush the toilet
a couple of times, make sure the furnace is still
holding the temperature up, and done. No problem.
Come on up and visit
NSM said:| N
| >
| > Wow, -6 degrees. I feel sorry for you folks; must be
| > terrible! Shall we send emergency aid?
| >
| No no need to panic. The cold spell has ended and it is raining and 6
| degrees out. Luckily the rain is now melting that snow we had. We have
| bylaws outlawing snow here. Snow is for the rest of the country. We
don't
| allow it here.
|
| > Come and visit Winnipeg. -29 now (mid afternoon; with -34 forecast
| > for tonight. And that doesn't include the windchill... with
| > it it will drop to the mid -40's :
| >
| Only fools and my brother and sister live in Winterpeg. There is a
reason
it
| is called winterpeg.
My Grandparents emigrated from Scotland to Brandon, MB, around 1900. It
was
so cold there that after a few years they re-emigrated to New Zealand.
N
Hi...
A few of the luckier of us have indoor plumbing nowdays...
Whatever will they think of next?
Seriously, it's no problem... I froze my water line
where it enters the house once many many years ago;
but 'twas my own fault, and easily cured. Finished
the basement, put R40 insulation on the outer walls.
Left the water line (where it exits the meter) tight
against the concrete wall so it was insulated from any
house heat.
One of my neighbors is in the Caribbean as we speak;
I go over daily and empty his mail box; go inside and
turn on one of the cold water taps, flush the toilet
a couple of times, make sure the furnace is still
holding the temperature up, and done. No problem.
Come on up and visit
I lived in a mini-home for awhile, and we needed both heat tape and
thick insulation for the water pipe behind the skirting where it left
the ground and entered the house. It froze several times on us, and
once frozen, was quite troublesome to thaw. Had it been a metal pipe
it would've been easier, I suppose.
Tom said:I lived in a mini-home for awhile, and we needed both heat tape and
thick insulation for the water pipe behind the skirting where it left
the ground and entered the house. It froze several times on us, and
once frozen, was quite troublesome to thaw. Had it been a metal pipe
it would've been easier, I suppose.
I lived in a mini-home for awhile, and we needed both heat tape and
thick insulation for the water pipe behind the skirting where it left
the ground and entered the house. It froze several times on us, and
once frozen, was quite troublesome to thaw. Had it been a metal pipe
it would've been easier, I suppose.
Several months ago, a port on an NEC-based USB card failed (a section
of its LM3526 power controller & overcurrent protection chip blew), and
just recently the same happened to an ALI-based USB card.
Just for grins, how do you handle your plumbing to keep it from freezing?
Franc said:Do both cards use the same NS chip?
Is it possible that you have an open ground at your mains
outlet? This would result in a case potential of half the
mains voltage.