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Re: Boiler Babysitter
How much does your babysitter charge per hour? Do they take care of ages 3 thru 7? My usually babysitter can't do it Thursday night. She has a big Algebra exam on Friday and needs to study on Thursday.
Re: HW Tanks: Burnham Alliance LT vs Vaughn Featherweight
Hi @seized123 , I'm thinking it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Also, water quality plays into any answer. So, what are you up to? 😇
Yours, Larry
Yours, Larry
Re: Seeking someone to pour gypcrete in NW Arkansas
You worked at Gitmo too? Super Cool..Mad Dog 🐕Did you do any exploring when you were there? I drove the whole base did as much hiking around and picture taking as the MP felt comfortable with
They started following me around as I got to nosey.All the contractor lead people were there with Tradesmen International. Tax free income if you signed on for 18 months.
The head plumber from Rochester signed on just to have access to the snorkeling for two years. Another contractor wanted to fish the bay.
They have a nice marina where you can rent all sorts of boats.
Here is one of the locals that I met, looking for some fresh reading material, I suspected.
hot_rod
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Re: Old 1/2" copper not same 1/2" size
Almost every crawl space I have been it means no lights (even if they have them the bulbs are shot)., mice, bricks, rocks broken glass cobwebs and climbing over sewer pipes and the wiring is usually just strung around and hanging everywhere.
Re: Weak water pressure (under load): Hack-job flip of single-family into 4 condos
There's a reason the plumber blew up to 1 1/4" ?? out of the meter outlet...He knew better or there was a volume problem right away. Who knows...maybe he TOLD the G.C. or HO this might be the case, but THEY didn't wanna pay for a new, larger service and meter set.Yeah, that 1-1/4" run (before I found that it wasn't that big all the way back to the source) is what made me think to post this here. How could we have such a big problem if there's 1-1/4"? The little drinking straw upstream at the source--that's how.
My current theory is that the owner balked at the cost of a new larger service but was convinced to go with downstream pipe of the size that would be acceptable, when future owners are sick of the problem that was left them. I think that 1-1/4" run initally went from the bushing straight up to the ceiling tee. Then, after the condos were occupied, the owner of the condo to which that storage area belongs got annoyed with having to be home to let people in whenever the water needed to be turned off. The next plumber—maybe the same person as before—spliced in the big loop of 1-1/4" in order to put a shut-off valve in a place where anyone could get to it. One of the many things not solved by that solution is that the two sides of the basement were walled off completely from each other. Need to shut off the water to work on the West side? Not so fast: we still have to coordinate with one of the 2 condos on the East side first to get access to the "common" space shut-off valve, and to make sure both of them can do without water. Need to work on something water-related on the East side? Sorry, West side, your water gets shut off too. Actually, now that think about it, I don't think I've seen any valves that would isolate one condo from the rest. You probably have to shut off EVERYBODY's water anytime a single condo needs work. [HH needs to add the "facepalm" emoji.]
I can't believe all of this (ahem) less-than-ideal work is due to cost. The four boilers were brutally "spliced" into the original one-pipe system with a ridiculous amount of copper, which of course is wrong in the first place. Got my work cut out there! (Coming soon to a "Strictly Steam" near you). And the number of big cast brass/bronze fittings that were used to connect the new copper (!!!!) mains to the old sections--literally took my breath away. Money can't have been an issue--well, unless the heating work blew the budget.
SteamFTW
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Re: Old gas water heater
Even walking by it and speaking to it will cause it to fail. LOL
Re: Weak water pressure (under load): Hack-job flip of single-family into 4 condos
@mattmia2 I plan to take more photos when I can get better access to it. Zoom on my phone is hit or miss.
@hot_rod Hopefully that gate valve upstream still closes.
@hot_rod Hopefully that gate valve upstream still closes.
SteamFTW
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Re: The case of the boiler that wasn't a boiler, this weeks case.
@EdTheHeaterMan Ed I agree I would rather work on a boiler anytime
@EBEBRATT-Ed I do too. I asked a plumber friend how he put up with the smell and he smiled and said, Smells like money to me" I said No it doesn't LOL
@EBEBRATT-Ed I do too. I asked a plumber friend how he put up with the smell and he smiled and said, Smells like money to me" I said No it doesn't LOL
Re: Things to know about O2 ingress, corrosion, scale build up in hydronics
I can breath much easier Bob, now that I have this information about Oxygen.
Thanks Bob!
Thanks Bob!
Re: Eight down…
Haha, I did this in my own home and vowed never to do it again. I pass up several big $$$ jobs every year because I hate it that bad. Sometimes I see the aftermath of what the other contractor did after I passed it up, and it appears that they hate it too because there is always a serious shortage of both tubing and plates- cheap plates at that.
GroundUp
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