Snow-pocalypse (aka Snow-mageddon)

[Ahks]

1098?

[Grampa]

went out again today..... I even went up a lil higher.


no snow  

[ducpainter]

went out again today..... I even went up a lil higher.


no snow  

next time...

head east.

You'll find it.

[ungeheuer]

Chicago:




It's a freak'n bizzaster...and it's not even 2012!!!

FMD - thats.... thats a LOT of snow

[Le Pirate]

well..............


We had a pipe decide to un-solder it's self in our wall yesterday evening...and proceeded to dump gallons of water into our house. We knew it was going to happen eventually as the washer and drier hookups are on an exterior wall...that faces north where the coldest winds blow from.

After ripping out sheet rock in anger last night I discovered that all the insulation in the wall was between the inside of the house and the pipe. pipe to outside wall? nah....who needs that? 

So I have to find a plumber, as I don't possess the knowledge or equipment to sweat copper, that will drive 60 miles round trip, on unplowed roads....while it snows more. That might not seem unreasonable anywhere else in the US, but I imagine I'm going to be without water for a while, as this is Texas and driving in the snow is a no-no 


I wish they would of atleast put some cut off valves here and there in the house so I could isolate the bad section and have water in the rest of the house. Maybe thats against some building code or something though, I don't know.

[ducpainter]

well..............


We had a pipe decide to un-solder it's self in our wall yesterday evening...and proceeded to dump gallons of water into our house. We knew it was going to happen eventually as the washer and drier hookups are on an exterior wall...that faces north where the coldest winds blow from.

After ripping out sheet rock in anger last night I discovered that all the insulation in the wall was between the inside of the house and the pipe. pipe to outside wall? nah....who needs that? 

So I have to find a plumber, as I don't possess the knowledge or equipment to sweat copper, that will drive 60 miles round trip, on unplowed roads....while it snows more. That might not seem unreasonable anywhere else in the US, but I imagine I'm going to be without water for a while, as this is Texas and driving in the snow is a no-no 


I wish they would of atleast put some cut off valves here and there in the house so I could isolate the bad section and have water in the rest of the house. Maybe thats against some building code or something though, I don't know.

Shut offs cost money...it's a different code that it violates. Certainly not building codes. 

If you do find a plumber to come out it's gonna cost you.

[ungeheuer]

So I have to find a plumber, as I don't possess the knowledge or equipment to sweat copper

make the beast with two backs the plumber (metaphorically).  Compression fittings?  >> http://www.jtmplumbing.co.uk/compression-40/fittings-42.html

[muskrat]

well we got 6 inches and they are calling for more through early evening here in DFW.  
Wife and I ran some errands and I must say that I'm still very impressed with her ML 350's 4MATIC.....son of a pregnant dog does a hell of a job on ice and snow.  Of course, I'm not from here so I have plenty of experience driving in it.  If nothing else it was fun to watch all the morons sliding everywhere.

this morning I sat my coffee cup on the car.

[Monster Dave]

A time lapse video of the melting would have been awesome!

[muskrat]

I was too cold for those shenanigans

[ducatiz]

So I have to find a plumber, as I don't possess the knowledge or equipment to sweat copper, that will drive 60 miles round trip, on unplowed roads....while it snows more. That might not seem unreasonable anywhere else in the US, but I imagine I'm going to be without water for a while, as this is Texas and driving in the snow is a no-no 

sweating copper is easy as hell.  if you have the tools, of course.. you just need to be able to cut the pipe, scrape it, prep it and then fit, heat and touch with the solder.  it's the easiest thing to do.  propane torch is fine.

[Triple J]

sweating copper is easy as hell.  if you have the tools, of course.. you just need to be able to cut the pipe, scrape it, prep it and then fit, heat and touch with the solder.  it's the easiest thing to do.  propane torch is fine.

+1 Very easy. Home Depot or something will have all the stuff, and it isn't too expensive.

[Ddan]

make the beast with two backs the plumber (metaphorically).  Compression fittings?  >> http://www.jtmplumbing.co.uk/compression-40/fittings-42.html

Or a compression fitting...

[lethe]

I'm weird, I like sweating them. I feel all artistic in making it come out looking good.

[ducpainter]

I'm weird, I like sweating them. I feel all artistic in making it come out looking good.

That's all you had to say.