Daughter called and said I had my water dripping all day but when I turned on the hot water nothing.
So I grab a heat gun and hairdryer and what insulation I have and head over there.
The whole house was re-piped with pex after the last freeze since pipes burst in the attic. This was before the bought it. The insulation job was half ass and a couple joints were left uncoverd along with about 2 feet of pipe as well as gaps and the split inthe insulation wasn't sealed shut. I told him to do this when he bought the house. You can't have any gaps.
So I got the 2 copper fittings heated up and water flowed into the heater creating the pressure needed and now they have water.
I couldn't get the small feed lines to the garage laundry working. I told future son in law he needs to properly do the insulation and taping and figure out if the wall is insulated to the laundry. If not open it up and properly insulate those pipes and redo the drywall.
Lucky its pex as I don't see any leaks and that all the pipes over the living part of the house were dripping. So no damage. If they do end up eith a leak it will be over the garage.
You would think after the previous home owner spent all that money to completely redo the house from frozen pipes they would have properly insulated the damn things in the attic. Pex pipe gives you a little better burst protection from freezing but it will still burst of enough freezes solid and the pressure stretch will eventually weaken it.
I'm too crippled and old To be crawling in attics.
He's gonna have fun when home depot opens getting more insulation. Then properly doing the job. I also said to get a decent electric space heater to put in the garage under the attic opening and let it run to warm that space up.
I asked where the water shut off is incase of a leak. He didn't know so we found it out front but it was buried in mud. I said wait till day light and get some gloves and carefully clean that out so you can shut it off. Do the same thing at the street but don't go blindly digging thru there with tools and breaking that pipe. Then you will have to get that fixed.
Good lessons I guess.
So I grab a heat gun and hairdryer and what insulation I have and head over there.
The whole house was re-piped with pex after the last freeze since pipes burst in the attic. This was before the bought it. The insulation job was half ass and a couple joints were left uncoverd along with about 2 feet of pipe as well as gaps and the split inthe insulation wasn't sealed shut. I told him to do this when he bought the house. You can't have any gaps.
So I got the 2 copper fittings heated up and water flowed into the heater creating the pressure needed and now they have water.
I couldn't get the small feed lines to the garage laundry working. I told future son in law he needs to properly do the insulation and taping and figure out if the wall is insulated to the laundry. If not open it up and properly insulate those pipes and redo the drywall.
Lucky its pex as I don't see any leaks and that all the pipes over the living part of the house were dripping. So no damage. If they do end up eith a leak it will be over the garage.
You would think after the previous home owner spent all that money to completely redo the house from frozen pipes they would have properly insulated the damn things in the attic. Pex pipe gives you a little better burst protection from freezing but it will still burst of enough freezes solid and the pressure stretch will eventually weaken it.
I'm too crippled and old To be crawling in attics.
He's gonna have fun when home depot opens getting more insulation. Then properly doing the job. I also said to get a decent electric space heater to put in the garage under the attic opening and let it run to warm that space up.
I asked where the water shut off is incase of a leak. He didn't know so we found it out front but it was buried in mud. I said wait till day light and get some gloves and carefully clean that out so you can shut it off. Do the same thing at the street but don't go blindly digging thru there with tools and breaking that pipe. Then you will have to get that fixed.
Good lessons I guess.
