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I'm bad at failing so I keep trying
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Brown outs or black outs? I don't see the power company cutting phases
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I lost power Tuesday for about 5 hrs. Tanks dropped 3 degrees in 3 hrs. Probably didn't need to yank generator out but i did...i needed a heater lol
It was brutal here - we lost power for almost one second Monday morning.
We did lose cable and internet from about 1pm Monday until after I went to bed, and then another hour or so on Tuesday. I'll take that any day over losing power.
The exciting thing was, no broken pipes or waterfalls in our closet!
We did lose cable and internet from about 1pm Monday until after I went to bed, and then another hour or so on Tuesday. I'll take that any day over losing power.
The exciting thing was, no broken pipes or waterfalls in our closet!
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Plus you always have fresh venison to hunt at your place if you lose internet for more than three hours. I think that's what you're supposed to do to survive.
I had a waterfall behind my shower. Don't think the pipe froze though, the whole length of it was caked in green corrosion so it looks like a pinhole picked during the freeze to open up. I caught it quickly and turned off the water so there was no real damage.
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People pay top dollar to have a waterfall shower and you got it for free!
On a serious note, what happened? Did you have to rip things out?
Pipe behind the shower between the bathroom and master bedroom goes up into the attic and at the header it sprung a leak. It was the hot line and I think 40 years of rubbing from thermal expansion finally won. I caught it fast enough that I just got some soggy carpet that a dehumidifier and fan took care of within a day.
There was no way I was getting to the lines in the attic without springing a leak in my skull from the shingle nails so I cut the line, capped it, then had a plumber come out and replace all the copper for the shower up into the attic with pex and install new shower hardware.
Just got some drywall work to do and some painting. Might put in a proper access panel for the shower as well. Dunno why previous owner used a furnace return grate....
There was no way I was getting to the lines in the attic without springing a leak in my skull from the shingle nails so I cut the line, capped it, then had a plumber come out and replace all the copper for the shower up into the attic with pex and install new shower hardware.
Just got some drywall work to do and some painting. Might put in a proper access panel for the shower as well. Dunno why previous owner used a furnace return grate....
