OK this is the who had pipes bust last night thread.

RHSCTJ said:
Im kinda surprised you're allowed to take pics inside the powerplant. Seems that would be national security issue.
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I dont work at a nuclear station..in which picture taking is prohibited. There not strict at coal fired plants.

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wife set the timer on the dishwasher to come on at 3am and the washing machines timer was set at 5am, that was pretty smart methought (don't tell her tho...haha) no issues (as of yet)

we really do usually have mild winters, guess we have it pretty good temp wise here in central NC
 
My girlfriend has me pick her up and drive her to work when it is cold like this. She has a good walk from the parking lot to where she works, would be 5-8 mins in the cold. Of course, that means I also have to pick her up in the evening!
 
Plugged the truck up last night. Started fine, maybe a little sluggish. No water issues, heat ran a more than normal. Kept it 65 in the house. but I believe the emergency heat was kicking in. I check my power usage daily and it usually comes in around $7 a day. Last night was around $13
 
VortecJeep said:
Our kitchen sink is on an outside wall and always freezes up if the temperatures gets down into the teens. I finally decided this past Sunday to figure out why. I thought maybe there was insulation missing. To my surprise, when I pulled the vinyl siding off, part of the wall was missing! I removed what was left of the fiber board and the ruined insulation, added pipe insulation, replaced the wall insulation, and installed OSB. Pipes did not freeze last night or this morning!!View attachment 112460
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I'm guessing your house was probably built probably mid '06 to mid '07 when osb was $20 a sheet and contractors were using the fiber board between OSB corners.
Bad thing is someone can kick the whole wall in easily.
 
Our gas furnace crapped out on us last night. Been acting up for a while but finally died. Good buddy of mine is a HVAC tech who I have bailed out of a few Jeep related jams in the past. Needless to say, I have an appointment with said friend.
My 7.3 started right up as did our Freightliner for some deliveries today. There were some SLOW cranking Lulls at some jobsites I visited today too!
 
hopefully no busted pipes, but this morning the water was only trickling in, I'm guessing frozen up internally. It was fine last night. It'd be nice if it warms up today and all is good.
 
Hope everyone is good now. When i got home from working on the other house last night mine had unthawed themselves. Thank god bc i was not looking forward to crawling under the house in the dark and cold.
 
lockedup5 said:
I'm guessing your house was probably built probably mid '06 to mid '07 when osb was $20 a sheet and contractors were using the fiber board between OSB corners.
Bad thing is someone can kick the whole wall in easily.
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Close! It was built in 2005.
 
transman731 said:
i didn't have pipes freeze or bust, but it did get cold enough that both rear door handles on the wife's accord broke when we tried to open them.
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Ha, my brother broke both door handles on a 80s Honda Accord back in highschool...it was a 2 door, I had to go in through the trunk.

No problems at my house, we let the water trickle in the laundry room sink, I measured the temp under the house, with it in single digits outside it was still in the 40s in the crawlspace. The neighbors on the other hand had frozen pipes yesterday, wife gave them a key to take showers and get some water at our house...came home and they had shut off the sink I had left trickling :handed: but luckily we had no ill effects. Thawed their pipes out and they had water, no leaks luckily.
 
Had a pipe but at the well, but everything else was ok. Easy fix and now back to normal.

Duane
 
My phones been ringing off the hook. Just finished up a flood job in a million dollar home in Irving Park Greensboro. Steam unit in the attic for a steam shower busted. Flooded the attic, master bath, down into the living room. Now on the way to the next job in Eden at Willow Oaks Plantation. Downtown Marriott in greensboro had main water lines on the roof burst and flood about 8 floors. Didn't get that job though. Sucks cause thats about 100k job. Crazy. Ill be working all night between job sites. I will try to get pics when time allows.


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RenegadeT said:
hopefully no busted pipes, but this morning the water was only trickling in, I'm guessing frozen up internally. It was fine last night. It'd be nice if it warms up today and all is good.
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I guess the pipe was just frozen somewhere, no flooding anywhere, water pressure is back to normal. Next time it gets super cold, I'll leave my bright halogen utitity light in the uninsulated closet where the water line comes in, that warms up the garage when I use it.
 
I was working on a lift at a customers site today when I heard what sounded like a shotgun go off just inside the warehouse, looked inside and water was spraying out of a sprinkler pipe right on the edege of the side wall, of course the fire alarm went off, some serious spray coming out of the burst area on the pipe.
 
Had a pipe bust at the city's maintenance shop last night about 7pm. I first heard it about 9pm when I went outside to piss. They at 12:50 (we leave at 1am), I heard it and saw the ditch behind my truck was full and flowing. Then I put 2 and 2 together and called the local PD and got someone out there to check it out and call the supervisor. It was either a water hose that was left on that busted or the spigot head itself. Either way, it's going to make a nice skating rink in their parking lot!
 
RenegadeT said:
I guess the pipe was just frozen somewhere, no flooding anywhere, water pressure is back to normal. Next time it gets super cold, I'll leave my bright halogen utitity light in the uninsulated closet where the water line comes in, that warms up the garage when I use it.
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Same problem here, Water pressure is pretty much back to normal today.
 
Well I worked till about 2am last night cleaning up flooded homes. The pics I took don't really show what's going on or how bad it actually is. I have a few pics from in the attic. This house had a sprinkler system and the line above the foyer as you enter had flooded the attic. Right around the break its visibly soaked, but the water ran all thru the attic and only the top layer of blown insulation was dry. It all had to be bagged and come out. It ran down and into the duct work for the HVAC system, flooding that too. Water will travel south and keep going and going! And let me tell you, a small amount of blown insulation in a plastic bag is very very heavy!
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