Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago

[Jolly]

Lessons earned are lessons learned.

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

We've had cold snaps before, but lesson learned that if it's -30 for like two or three days, I should leave the sink on a drip.

Yeah, that was something we learned in Canada. In England the pipes would freeze if it got below freezing for more than an hour. The English live under the delusion that they live in a tropical climate, and design accordingly.

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

I can't see through walls of course …

You say that like it’s obvious but those of us who have seen your location sleuthing skills needed the clarification.

[Horace]

Well done, @89th

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

I can't see through walls of course …

You say that like it’s obvious but those of us who have seen your location sleuthing skills needed the clarification.

Well to be clear, I actually kind of can see through walls. I have one of those infrared/thermal cameras (FLIR) I can attach to my iPhone to view the temperature. You can actually see the studs in the walls since they retain heat differently than the drywall. But unfortunately not enough to see hot and cold water lines running in the ceiling or down the wall. I'll post a pic in a second.

[89th]

[89th]

You can see the bar on the left, a speaker in the middle of the wall, a large toy truck on the floor, and a velcro target toy on the right. Oh and you can see the studs.

[taiwan_girl]

@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

I was able to warm up that section of the wall over the last 24 hours and the water came back on, luckily with no burst pipes evident.

That is good.

The parents of a friend burned down their own house by trying to unfreeze a pipe by using a flame torch.

(The father owns a mechanic shop so probably figured he was smart enough to do it properly, which he obviously was not!!)

[89th]

@taiwan_girl Wow. The space heaters have come a long way for safety but even still I decided against running it all night while I slept 2 nights ago since I would rather have a busted pipe than a burned house.

[taiwan_girl]

@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:

You can see the bar on the left, a speaker in the middle of the wall, a large toy truck on the floor, and a velcro target toy on the right. Oh and you can see the studs.

I guess you need a more powerful IR camera!!!