Maintenance
Spent the last couple of days, slithering in the mud, inhaling fiberglass particles, getting covered with rusty leaking water, and trying not to catch a house on fire. Yep, you guessed it. I'm plumbing. Nasty job. We think Grandmas has been sitting cold for at least Six or Seven years. Not properly drained, the occasional -30 weather split copper pipes and wrecked a lot of the plumbing. It doesn't look like it was ever done to proper standards in the first place. Hugyballed. Poly pipe clamped to copper. The soldered joints all look like this: And these are some of the better ones. The elbows seem to split. And of course the risers. The 1/2 inch copper lines entering the wall ( which is actually the floor) have all split inside the walls. Thank God for the guy who invented PEX conduit. Replacing copper and lead solder is pretty easy. Except for where the connections have to be made where my long handled PEX plier...