Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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volfanhill said:
Wife woke me up this morning telling me the pool is frozen over. I get up and go outside and it's frozen over and the water isn't coming out of either return valve. I have been running the pump 24 hours a day for several days. Call my pool guy and he basically just tells me I am screwed and he will be by when the weather warms to assess the damage. I angrily eat breakfast. Go outside and break the 1/4 inch of ice in the skimmer basket and the ice around the skimmer intake. Nothing. 30 minutes later I hear my wife yell "the water is flowing." Go outside and sure enough we are back in business. So glad I didn't say screw it and tried something
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I cover my pump/filter with a couple furniture blankets and a tarp, stick a work light with an incandescent bulb under the blankets and it stays nice and toasty.
 
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AM64 said:
Oof. I kept water dribbling last night, but I think the real saving grace was that my ducts leak and kept it warm under the house. This is a 100+ year old house, so all the plumbing was added and basically comes up through the floors - so no pipes in the walls. Not nearly the mess that you could get into with new houses. Maybe when your stuff froze it didn't expand enough to break the pipes; you'd think by now with more knowledge in materials, we'd have made piping with the ability to absorb expansion caused by freezing. I've wondered if PEX is any better in that respect or just an easier installed material retaining all the old problems.
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I didnt trust pex when it 1st came out...i can still sweat copper unlike many modern day licensed plumbers doing new construction work. When it 1st came out, there was a single run off bad fittings that came from 1 factory and they had leak issues, other than that pex has held up well and it makes plumbing so simple a dolphin could do it. The pipe actually swells if it ever freezes solid, because those compression fittings will never give once the rings are compressed around them. Pex is much better than copper vs freezing temps. Running hot/cold supply lines with pex is so easy that my 14yo daughter could plumb a 2 bedroom 1 kitchen normal house in 2 hours stapling lines to the bottom of floor joists. It is that stinkin easy. Running drain was always easy... if i would have done just plumbing work the last 30 years instead of carpentry/brick/management i would probably be retiring at 50 if i wanted to, with 35 years at work.





Orangeburst said:
Happy Festivus! Time for the Feats of Strength
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I haven't got my turn yet in "airing of grievances" ...but I am ready to rockout just as soon as i tell these Muppets..
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I didnt trust pex when it 1st came out...i can still sweat copper unlike many modern day licensed plumbers doing new construction work. When it 1st came out, there was a single run off bad fittings that came from 1 factory and they had leak issues, other than that pex has held up well and it makes plumbing so simple a dolphin could do it. The pipe actually swells if it ever freezes solid, because those compression fittings will never give once the rings are compressed around them. Pex is much better than copper vs freezing temps. Running hot/cold supply lines with pex is so easy that my 14yo daughter could plumb a 2 bedroom 1 kitchen normal house in 2 hours stapling lines to the bottom of floor joists. It is that stinkin easy. Running drain was always easy... if i would have done just plumbing work the last 30 years instead of carpentry/brick/management i would probably be retiring at 50 if i wanted to, with 35 years at work.

I haven't got my turn yet in "airing of grievances" ...but I am ready to rockout just as soon as i tell these Muppets..
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Dolphins are pretty smart. Smarter than the average Texas fan at least.
 
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hog88 said:
I cover my pump/filter with a couple furniture blankets and a tarp, stick a work light with an incandescent bulb under the blankets and it stays nice and toasty.
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We used to use a bulb similar to a floodlight in the well house and kept the pump, tank, and pipes from freezing. While in the Army, all the Hawk batteries put regular incandescent bulbs in the radar cabinets to minimize condensation when the temps dropped at night - moisture played havoc with the electronics. What was an easy solution is becoming hard because you can't find incandescent bulbs.
 
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For the Bah Humbug moment, Jeremy Banks has opted out of the Orange Bowl. Sure hope it doesn't turn into another SC debacle.
 
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AM64 said:
We used to use a bulb similar to a floodlight in the well house and kept the pump, tank, and pipes from freezing. While in the Army, all the Hawk batteries put regular incandescent bulbs in the radar cabinets to minimize condensation when the temps dropped at night - moisture played havoc with the electronics. What was an easy solution is becoming hard because you can't find incandescent bulbs.
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As an aside, I bought a 6 pack of "20,000" hour incandescent bulbs about 10 years ago to use on my side table next to my main chair. 10 years later, I'm still on the first bulb and this thing is probably on 12 hours a day. At this rate, my great grandkids will be set for life with incandescent bulbs.
 
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VolStrom said:
As an aside, I bought a 6 pack of "20,000" hour incandescent bulbs about 10 years ago to use on my side table next to my main chair. 10 years later, I'm still on the first bulb and this thing is probably on 12 hours a day. At this rate, my great grandkids will be set for life with incandescent bulbs.
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Wish I'd found some of those. I remember buying a pack of bulbs for use in rough settings, and they didn't pass the garage door opener test at all.
 
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AM64 said:
Wish I'd found some of those. I remember buying a pack of bulbs for use in rough settings, and they didn't pass the garage door opener test at all.
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This is what I bought ... November 4th, 2012. I also bought a dimmer that may have prolonged the bulb, don't know.

 
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