Recent content by MikeFromHC

Yes. The bad news is that he died shortly after. The good news is that he decided a written manual was not good enough and died demonstrating the procedures to the 37th bunny.

Why can't you?

Thanks. It's iron pipe.

In removing some concrete yesterday we found the water pipes to the rear of the house I was curious about. They were on the surface of the ground immediately under the concrete and on top of the sewer line I was after. The diamond blade determined which was the hot water side... Lucky it was...

You either have a leak or somebody is stealing about 100,000 gallons a month from you. Hire someone to find it for you and do it immediately. With luck it will not be under a building that may suffer serious damage when the water digs a big enough hole.

If you clean it as well as you can and then put a marine exoxy over the hole and a compression wrap over that - even an old inner tube pulled tight and held with duct tape it will slow the leak and might even stop it for a short time.

I met the guys who bought the London Bridge They were wheeling and dealing in Baja at the time. They thought they wre buying the Tower Bridge... The people selling these water softeners should also sell the magnets that double your gas millage. A simple solution for them would be to...

I think the trick is to have the water full on so it does not melt.

No and before I moved the hot water heater from the garage the back of the house got hot and the front got warm. There are no limiters on either. Also during the summer both get and got good hot water.

Thanks. Waiting for it is not the problem. In winter the water that comes out at the back of the house is cool enough to shower in with no need to mix cold water if the water at the front of the house is at around 130 degrees at the faucet. (As I found out the hard way) This is a constant loss...

When my old water heater died I put the new one at the front of the house rather in the garage. (Previous owner used a *lot* of hot water in teh garage and it made sense.) Now the front gets hot water fairly quickly but the back gets it slowly and it has cooled a lot. Does using a small...

I have to replace about 30 feet of cast iron pipe. Most of the run is under a thin concrete and and a digging bar makes "easy" work of it. There is however a short run of less than 10 feet (that may not be straight) which is under four or more inch concrete. Is there any way to do a...