Water: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Feb 06, 2007 17:21

So, I bought a new pressure sensor and piece of small pipe to connect it to the water line. And I climbed into my dank hole. When I let all the pressure out of the system, the pressure sensor kicked in suddenly. I didn't look a gift horse in the mouth, I figured it was a one-time fluke, and I ran the water for a while to ensure it was functioning properly. It seemed to be. So I called it a day.

This morning, the water was screwed again. Between the fact that the problem seemed to happen when there was the least amount of water being used and when it was the coldest, led me to believe something was freezing. And since I could safely write off large sections of the system from being frozen, I thought maybe the small pipe going into the sensor is what froze. I figured that the ice "fell" down and out when I released all pressure on the system. Once it wasn't floating in water (since there was then no water at all), it stopped blocking the thing. So, that was the first thing I looked at this morning and I did, indeed, find ice in there. Since I bought new parts, even though it seems likely nothing was broken, I decided to use them. The new tube was shorter, which means that there is less water that is far from the unfrozen part. And then I put a bunch of pipe insulation around it. It's a good first step.

I also located more animal remains. The other animal is all bones and has clearly been there a while. Probably another rabbit, but who can say?

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