Lucky
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my utility room is on a slab and the rest of the house has a 3 ft crawlspace. the main wate line comes into the utility room and then is fed out from there. i cannot get into the crawlspace. but apparently the water lines are fed either at an angle into the crawlspace or perhaps thru the wall cavity and down into the crawl. regardless, it's a pain for anyone to work in the crawl as the access window is at the complete opposite end of the house from the utility room . the pipes dont freeze under the house because the boiler pipes keep them warm all winter. of course thats not the case in the attic
i need to run a new unconditioned water line to a fridge in the kitchen. i dont believe in drinking soft water. i can easily see my hot tub electrical line being fed up to the attic and the floor there is exposed as i never finished an insulation project. ran out of blown in insulation and never completed it. some of the attic floor is tongue and groove and ez to lift up. currently that cavity where the hot tub line runs has zero insulation so it would be ez to place new water pipe there. its it ok to dump blown insulation on electrical wires like that? would i need to create a 'box' of some sort to house the water line?
about 10 feet over from the utility room feed is a 'room'....there are walls up in the attic there where the roof slopes too much to walk under it, and you climb thru openings to get to the 'room' above my kitchen which has no floor but i blew in about 2 feet of insulation. (ie cannot see the joists) so whoever runs the line would have to walk on the joists and dig out all that insulation and drill down into the cabinet above the fridge. thats another 10 feet to the drop where the fridge is
i rarely lose power so i believe the heat from below would keep the pipe from freezing in normal times. today its 32 out. the temp inside of the roof is 23 and the wood where the hot tub line is, is 34. i should have measured when we had a 10 degree day but i just thought of this now. i dont care about the pipe running thru the cabinet above my fridge because i've only been in the cabinet like 5 times in 30 years. its useless space. i assume could be a shut off near where it comes down thru the ceiling to the flex line that would run to the fridge.
i had a guy in to do other work yesterday an asked him to ballpark running a line thru my crawlspace and he said 1100 which seemed a bit high even for all the work. i know i need to get other estimates but today it's hard to get anyone to come out even.
currently theres a soft water line running from under my sink to the fridge because someone before me needed that line but like i said i dont want to drink soft water. i did see there are ROI under the sink models but i feel its not smart to waste 3 gallons for 1 to get water to drink. though i guess in theory you could do a cost breakeven analysis for running the new line vs installing and maintaining ROI under the sink. but just seems cheaper to run the line.
i need to run a new unconditioned water line to a fridge in the kitchen. i dont believe in drinking soft water. i can easily see my hot tub electrical line being fed up to the attic and the floor there is exposed as i never finished an insulation project. ran out of blown in insulation and never completed it. some of the attic floor is tongue and groove and ez to lift up. currently that cavity where the hot tub line runs has zero insulation so it would be ez to place new water pipe there. its it ok to dump blown insulation on electrical wires like that? would i need to create a 'box' of some sort to house the water line?
about 10 feet over from the utility room feed is a 'room'....there are walls up in the attic there where the roof slopes too much to walk under it, and you climb thru openings to get to the 'room' above my kitchen which has no floor but i blew in about 2 feet of insulation. (ie cannot see the joists) so whoever runs the line would have to walk on the joists and dig out all that insulation and drill down into the cabinet above the fridge. thats another 10 feet to the drop where the fridge is
i rarely lose power so i believe the heat from below would keep the pipe from freezing in normal times. today its 32 out. the temp inside of the roof is 23 and the wood where the hot tub line is, is 34. i should have measured when we had a 10 degree day but i just thought of this now. i dont care about the pipe running thru the cabinet above my fridge because i've only been in the cabinet like 5 times in 30 years. its useless space. i assume could be a shut off near where it comes down thru the ceiling to the flex line that would run to the fridge.
i had a guy in to do other work yesterday an asked him to ballpark running a line thru my crawlspace and he said 1100 which seemed a bit high even for all the work. i know i need to get other estimates but today it's hard to get anyone to come out even.
currently theres a soft water line running from under my sink to the fridge because someone before me needed that line but like i said i dont want to drink soft water. i did see there are ROI under the sink models but i feel its not smart to waste 3 gallons for 1 to get water to drink. though i guess in theory you could do a cost breakeven analysis for running the new line vs installing and maintaining ROI under the sink. but just seems cheaper to run the line.