last weekend's chores...

[hubcapsc]

... were a lot more fun than this weekend's... Stanley Steamer came over
last weekend and spread 40 tons of stone...

This weekend was looking good... I even went for a back-roads ride to
some nearby roads I don't know up around the Oconee/Pickens line
near highway 11... there's some nice roads there, but sometimes you
end up having to back-track because of lake Hartwell or lake Keowee.

Anywho... Carolyn sent me out to start the grill about 6:30. I started
the coals and was washing the grill when the el-cheapo pot-metal
no-freeze hot-water hose-bib knob busted off! I had to hold the
plunger in there while Carolyn ran out to shut the water to the
house off, or else hot water would have been shooting out the
side of the house.

We still cooked steaks. I spent about four hours this morning
crawling around under there figuring out what needed done
and getting a new (brass and copper) no-freeze bib from Lowes.

The hose bib is the male threaded end kind, but was in a very
hard to reach place, blocked by lots of insulation, a foundation
pedestal and in between two floor joists. I couldn't even
really see what needed fixed, just feel it. I jambed the
camera up in there so I'd be sure of what I was doing...

The white pipe is the house plumbing, the metal pipe is
the el-cheapo hose-bib...



-Mike "OK I'm done whining now...

[The emperor has no clothes]

I know very little about plumbing . But I thought water supply lines were supposed to be copper or that new fangled flexible poly stuff ?

[hubcapsc]

I know very little about plumbing . But I thought water supply lines were supposed to be copper or that new fangled flexible poly stuff ?

There's a lot of different stuff you can use. I used all cpvc for pressurized water
lines in our house... cpvc is rated for hot water. By using all cpvc instead of
just using it for hot, I didn't have to worry about messing up and using a
pvc joint somewhere in a hot line.

They have press-fit copper stuff now, though I think only homeowner types
use it.  I don't know if it works reliably or not. When I did my house it was all compression
fittings or soldered... I'm sure I would have had leakers with compression fittings,
and I would have burned my house down if I had tried to solder it.  ...

-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

  yeah we don't need you following in Britmans footsteps. 

[baldo]

We used that new fangled flexible tubing in our addition for radiant floor and in-wall plumbing. Love it!

[..]

yeah we don't need you following in Britmans footsteps. 

Please don't 

[DirtyDan]

I suggest old school soldered copper pipe

just saying

dan {the plumber-pipefitter}

[Robert]

I suggest old school soldered copper pipe

just saying

dan {the plumber-pipefitter}

They have the new gator lock lines but I agree with Dan here, soldered copper is quick easy reliable, even though you did a good job with the cpvc. Did do a water heater one time with the Gator lock with Stainless wire mesh pipe only because was to lazy to make the pipes join up since they were a bit off.