Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago
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We had one pipe (supplying water to the basement wetbar sink) freeze that hasn't frozen before. I can't see through walls of course but am fairly confident it runs along the exterior wall for about 10 feet and that potentially is where it froze... the inside of the wall was 75 degrees, the outside of that wall was -30. 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. 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.
@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:
We had one pipe (supplying water to the basement wetbar sink) freeze that hasn't frozen before.
About 12 years ago, I got a call, on Christmas Eve, no less from a neighbor up at the Cheddarshack.
Seems a pipe had frozen (on an outside wall) and burst - flooding the entire 1st floor of the house.
See that can of Raid? It's floating in the garbage can.
Doing extensive damage to the lower (walk-out) level.
Damage totaled about $125K, iirc."Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:
We had one pipe (supplying water to the basement wetbar sink) freeze that hasn't frozen before.
About 12 years ago, I got a call, on Christmas Eve, no less from a neighbor up at the Cheddarshack.
Seems a pipe had frozen (on an outside wall) and burst - flooding the entire 1st floor of the house.
See that can of Raid? It's floating in the garbage can.
Doing extensive damage to the lower (walk-out) level.
Damage totaled about $125K, iirc.@George-K Ouch!!!!!!
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@89th said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:
We had one pipe (supplying water to the basement wetbar sink) freeze that hasn't frozen before.
About 12 years ago, I got a call, on Christmas Eve, no less from a neighbor up at the Cheddarshack.
Seems a pipe had frozen (on an outside wall) and burst - flooding the entire 1st floor of the house.
See that can of Raid? It's floating in the garbage can.
Doing extensive damage to the lower (walk-out) level.
Damage totaled about $125K, iirc. -
@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.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Gonna be a cold week here in Chicago:
@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.
The explains a lot about the cars.
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am I the only one here who can't complain about the current weather? Another sunny day of 65. Colder inside my house than out. I'm a miser for burning gas. That's what jackets are for, right Jon?
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BTW I'm not complaining about the cold. I wish I had a bit more free time to go out and cross country ski and other fun snow-related activities, but otherwise I like winter...this area converts nicely to provide lots of indoor activities too (especially with the boom of pickleball, golf and sport simulators attached to pubs!). The only bad part about winter is early April.... it's usually a sloppy mess as things are trying to thaw out and melt as plants begin to bloom.
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6 degrees right now. Heat pumps were not built for this crap.
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Not only is it cold, but it's gone back in time 200 years!
