25 Year Review...This Damn House!!
Finally getting around to putting up a few proper hangars & brackets in Mad Dog's Engine Room.....Didn't count on putting a deck in back of the house. Nothing worse than a wiff as guests are trying to enjoy some cocktails on the deck.
Relocate Fresh Air Inlet & dryer vent.
Added a Hot water Spigot (Prier) next to my Wolverine Brass Frost Free for washing cars & Tillman & Stella.
Casualties of 25 yrs of use:
1 Burnham IN 5 leaker (at about 19 yr mark...not happy about that)
1 Bradford White 50 Gal.Direct Vent water heater (lasted about 18 years! Very happy!)
Lessons learned: Food grade glycerine makes for great antifreeze for my fire sprinkler system, but should have used Teflon tape & pipe dope not Wick & dope on sprinkler heads....have a few super slow weepers.
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I'd say I exercise the Apollo ball valves every 3-4 months...Not a drip..still hold like they did the day the went in ..
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1 of of 3 Honeywell Zones valves needed replacement at about 17 year mark. #12 Solid Copper wire held up real good, but time for a proper hangar…The Shoemakers kids......
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These are the before pictures..gonna clean it all up real nice nice...stay tuned. Mad Dog
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The Prier FF hose bibb is about half the weight of the 24 yr old Wolverine Brass one, but it seems decent.
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Looks like a lot of activity here. But it is all your activity here. I love myself too, but this is getting a little out of hand Matt!!!
I especially like the twisted THHN wire hanger for the CI drain pipe hanging on a Steam main. That can't ever go wrong!
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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I thought a nice after action report 25 yrs later would be honest & revealing. Time in use tells the story...Mad Dog
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LOL. My house was the same way. I only fixed everything so i could sell it. Never had the time to fix my own place but had the time to fix everyone else's crap.
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Glycerine is oily...the wick swells with water, not oily water.…a few weeping threads at the heads. I'm ready to do a change out of the whole system fluid...not sure if I'm going to use the food grade glycerine again.
In any case, I'm going to probably change all the heads out. Another lesson learned is DON'T Silverbraze the last joint of a Copper x female adapter…Hopefully, I don't twist the H—- outta the copper..especially where there's cedar planking!
We shall see...Mad Dog
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I'm at "The Top of The Stretch" in my career...gotta clean up loose ends..wanna be a good "Deadmen" not a Jack Leg Shoemaker!! Ha ha...Mad Dog
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They do have a specific glycerin product for fire sprinklers. We did a bunch of the CPVC BlazeMaster systems and we used the Nobel brand product in 5 gallon buckets. A tough fluid to pump into systems when it is cold, it took a hydraulic gear pump, very slow process. A regular centrifugal transfer pump would not move it!
Nice recap on the home.
So cast iron boilers don't always outlast Munchkin mod cons? Don't tell Ed:)
Bob "hot rod" Rohr
trainer for Caleffi NA
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This is my Franken-Boiler....This is when I was running out of $$$ and trying to move in to the house. I used whatever fittings I had lying around in the barn...Lots of Galvanized gas fittings, a reused Spirovent that I bushed down.
This Lil Guy has run the radiant in the basement slab, mud room & three bathrooms ...no corrosion or leaks even with low temps.
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QUOTE from above:
EBEBRATT-EdMember Posts:17,710May 4LOL. My house was the same way. I only fixed everything so i could sell it. Never had the time to fix my own place but had the time to fix everyone else's crap.My Response:
Similarly, it is said, "a carpenters house is always unfinished" and " the mechanic wife's car is the last to be repaired"
All the Best,
RTW
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Me to my mom Colleen (RIP):
"Ma..just put a bucket under it for now..."
3 months later...."Do I have to call in ....so & so to fix this for me????"
Me to LSB (The Long Suffering Barbara)
"Babe…I'm slammed right now...just put a bucket under it!"
3 WEEKS later :
"You &$#@==?!! I'm gonna call in so & so if you don't fix this TODAY!!"
"Nobody loves ya like a Mother Will..."
Mad Dog
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The cobbler's children have no shoes.
(Or, the 1546 version:
But who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe, With shops full of newe shapen shoes all hir lyfe?
[1546 J. Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs i. xi. E1V]Trying to keep Bernie burning!
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All they have to say to me is "do I have to call someone else" and I take care of it. It really irritates me. They know what button to push and we react.
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