What it's all about

"Montblack" wrote

Read this twice. Don't get what you're doing here?

Going to check my blood sugar levels....

OK, you have a pipe freezing problem, only when it gets really, really cold.
House is unattended, and also used by guests that could never find the
cutoff, so if the pipes bust, the water is on, and it runs out a million
gallons; cost and damages.

Make the cutoff easy for the guests to get instructions to, such as "go in
the master bathroom, open the sink and turn off the big blue handle before
you leave." Then if pipes in the house bust, *that* pipe is busted, but no
huge damages. By repositioning the valve, getting the water shut off every
time is possible. Using the heat tape on the part of the pipe that is still
under pressure all of the time should give an extra bit of peace of mind,
that there will be no running water while it is left unattended.

I have a situation at my house, kinda like that, but not from freezing. To
shut off my water, I have to crawn on hands and knees about 20 feet. Seems
like I am always doing remodeling, or something, so I have to crawl in,
crawl out, do the work, crawl in, crawl out. With my back, that really
sucks. Some day, I'm going to put 20 feet of pipe on that sucker, and put
the valve where I can turn it off without crawling, then tap back into the
house system where there is a 3/4" line, not necessarly 20 feet all the way
back in there. As soon as I get a round tuit.

How's that? g

Really, drawing a picture takes the fun out of it. ;-)
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Jim in NC