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« on: March 10, 2019, 08:25:29 AM »


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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2019, 08:43:10 AM »

It must be nice living in -12 C country? We've just made it through our coldest month ever, I'm sure it was colder for msb only 40 miles away, and he's better than me at remembering these things, but we just had a month of sub zero weather.

Of course now, we've been hitting mid-to-high single digit temps, and should be double digits soon.

Spring is just around the corner.
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2019, 08:58:45 AM »

We were getting stellar warm weather right up until groundhog day. February and into March was punishing 'Brass Monkey Weather". We have some warm weather coming for the next 2 weeks, but not before a predicted Tuesday Snow Storm. Winter wants one more smack down of Calgarians before Spring. If we get the predicted warm spell, most of the snow will be gone by the end of March cooldude
Gonna have to watch for the leftover loose fine gravel.
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« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2019, 09:39:44 AM »

Looking so forward to spring after the February we had.

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« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2019, 04:44:02 PM »

sick of this cold crap and snow, had enough.  You may want to break that ice sculpture carefully for if it melts and breaks just right may damage your exhaust tubing hitting it when the ice melts.  My furnace vent is plastic and has ever winter ice hanging down but ONLY is 2 feet off the ground is all, but always an icesicle hanging down most of that 2 feet.

my kid slid off the road last night in ONLY 1 inch of slushy, icy snow that came down yesterday (first rain changing to ICE)  and luckily hit a somewhat soft snowbank doing very minor damage to the car, plastic front bumper cracked in the middle.  He buried the car front end all the way back to the exhaust lifting the entire car UP about 4 inches mostly high sided in the middle.  NO airbag went off luckily hitting that snow bank head on he said doing around 20 mph.

He called and said he is fine and the car mostly but unable to get out by himself.  Luckily he was about 3 feet from hitting a telephone pole and if that snowbank alongside road going around that sharp corner doing 20 mph was NOT there,  he would have been down in the woods some 40-50 feet am sure and hit a tree.  My 4wd truck going out to unbury him almost slid off the road as well doing 30 mph and NO brakes working when the herd of Fing deer crossed the road in front of me unable to slow down, lucky NO deer collision again for me.    I had to bring shovels and let the kid unbury the car pretty much by himself taking an hour while I hooked up the tow strap on frame of the rear axle and pulled him out with the 4wd truck. 

MAN, to lift UP the car 4 inches off the ground with tires not hardly touching the road/snow high siding that much in the middle of the car due to snow piled up underneath in middle luckily NO damage underneath carriage, or so I hope anyways.   It ran fine today and tracked straight and used a few zip ties to hold the front grille/bumper in place better just cracked and separated in the middle part of plastic front bumper.

He is DONE for next 2 months driving at night and not going up north 2 hours seeing his buddies either today and tomorrow, grounded for now until further notice.   tickedoff tickedoff

Winter cannot come DONE soon enough, have stuff to do around the house and on the cars and prefer to work in 50 degree temps, not 32 degrees and below outside with ice/snow/dirt/sludge melting underneath the cars while working on them from underneath.

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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2019, 04:51:03 PM »

No worries. It is just an interesting icicle formed by condensed water dripping on the ground for a month. The 4" plastic exhaust pipe is about 18" above it.
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2019, 05:57:16 AM »

If we get the predicted warm spell, most of the snow will be gone by the end of March cooldude


I'm shooting for sometime in May!
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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2019, 07:45:07 AM »

HA HA..... One of the better ones I've seen considering the height of the termination!



I've done Hvac for 35 years now and on my installs I try to get enough slope back to the furnace to avoid all dripping. I've seen some nasty ones that will cause damage as the ice looks more like an iceberg climbing the wall.
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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2019, 12:23:35 PM »

Every winter our furnace exhaust produces "The Icepickle".  Taken today:

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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2019, 08:55:32 PM »

Kevin that's what I'm talkin about  2funny

Parging gets damaged when the vent pipe is shorter.

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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2019, 06:40:55 AM »

Kevin that's what I'm talkin about  2funny

Parging gets damaged when the vent pipe is shorter.


When I first moved in the furnace quit running on a very cold day...the problem...the intake and exhaust were too close, so the steam from the exhaust froze in the intake and shut the system down. The HVAC company installed a riser on the exhaust then elbowed away from the house and terminated with a "T" with the openings positioned vertical about 4' off the ground. No problems now. The icicle would need to grow another 10" to plug the bottom opening of the "T".
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« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2019, 08:37:44 AM »

Kevin that's what I'm talkin about  2funny

Parging gets damaged when the vent pipe is shorter.


When I first moved in the furnace quit running on a very cold day...the problem...the intake and exhaust were too close, so the steam from the exhaust froze in the intake and shut the system down. The HVAC company installed a riser on the exhaust then elbowed away from the house and terminated with a "T" with the openings positioned vertical about 4' off the ground. No problems now. The icicle would need to grow another 10" to plug the bottom opening of the "T".

AH....so the tee is what is causing the drip. The tee is only necessary if you don't have 8' to the property line. 
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