New furnace - A Tale of Two Winters

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

I wonder how many have died.
Not a good situation.

All the homeless charities and Social Services will be extra vigilent during this cols snap I should imagine.

The only problem being, they will not have the authority to take someone to a place of warmth/safety if they refuse to be helped.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

All the homeless charities and Social Services will be extra vigilent during this cols snap I should imagine.

The only problem being, they will not have the authority to take someone to a place of warmth/safety if they refuse to be helped.

They opened a temporary shelter here to handle the overflow from the regular shelter.

But yea if they dont want to come in you can not make them.

Then theres the 'repeat offenders' who committ petty crimes to land in jail for 30 days to escape the cold.

[CaptainHaplo]

Well Neal, if it makes you feel any better - though it didn't cost me 2k, the water froze up here in my home. It has been about 2 weeks of constant 20 degree days and single digit nights. The crawlspace isn't insulated, and it finally had all it could take. I spent about 8 hours yesterday under the house, cutting off the old pipe insulation, removing dead heat tape, then putting new heat tape and insulation back on. Temp under the house - 18 degrees Farenheit.

But water is back on again - thankfully. I have an artesian well as my water source, and the drain line for it froze as well, so the water is coming out the top and has no where to drain, so it hits the surface air and wind - and I have a slowly growing ice rink at the well head. Still, as long as its flowing - I am happy.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

Well Neal, if it makes you feel any better - though it didn't cost me 2k, the water froze up here in my home. It has been about 2 weeks of constant 20 degree days and single digit nights. The crawlspace isn't insulated, and it finally had all it could take. I spent about 8 hours yesterday under the house, cutting off the old pipe insulation, removing dead heat tape, then putting new heat tape and insulation back on. Temp under the house - 18 degrees Farenheit.

But water is back on again - thankfully. I have an artesian well as my water source, and the drain line for it froze as well, so the water is coming out the top and has no where to drain, so it hits the surface air and wind - and I have a slowly growing ice rink at the well head. Still, as long as its flowing - I am happy.

Wow, that's an ordeal. Is the crawlspace under your house (as oppose to an attic)? Do you mean minus 18 degrees? Or was that - a hypen? Dead heat tape, so it stopped working, eh? Any way to check it other than touch?

Thankfully all my pipe are in the attic, and it doesn't reach freezing there. I guess it could if the temps were low enough, long enough, but a two day freeze here is an event, not regular occurrence.