[TheForge] Re: WAAAAAAAAY OT (while we're talking about buildingsand heat)

[Grover Richardson]

Similar story.  Concrete floor, rental home, underground water pipes,
galvanized steel.  The renter just left one day, no notice.  Otherwise good
renter for years.  We went over to clean the place up.  Ma heard the toilet
running in the back bedroom and called me to shut it off until I could fix
it.  I shut it off, still water running.  Got to looking.  Couldn't find
where it was running from or to.  Walked outside.  Other than slight
moistness and green grass near the foundation, no obvious signs.  Went to
the water meter.  The slow hand was running like the second hand on a clock.
Prodigious amounts of water was going somewhere.  Under the concrete
foundation.  We had to dig and cut and finally ran new pipe through the
ceiling.  Ma checked and they had a big water bill for several months before
they moved<G>.  Guess they thought that we would blame them.



>*>-----Original Message-----
>*>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>*>[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
>*>Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 1:04 PM
>*>To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>*>Subject: [TheForge] Re: WAAAAAAAAY OT (while we're talking 
>*>about buildingsand heat)
>*>
>*>
>*>
>*>> Another person suggested radiant heat (insulation with or 
>*>without). 
>*>> That's about another 5k and if it breaks it would be a 
>*>nightmare to 
>*>> fix. But people say it's pretty cool to have nice warm floors.
>*>
>*>One of the people I consulted about my shop recommended 
>*>in-floor water pipes for heat.  I've been in a couple of 
>*>shops that have it and it is, in fact, real nice.  But I 
>*>decided not to do it.  I'm big on KISS.
>*>
>*>Early on, before PVC and other plastic pipe, they used 
>*>galvanized steel pipe to do this.  Potential disaster.  When 
>*>I worked on construction in the mid-60s, we went to a house 
>*>that my employer had built in the early 50s.  Wall to wall 
>*>carpet and pad was a nasty, sodden pile of glop in the yard. 
>*> In the living room, the Steinway was up on blocks along 
>*>with the other furniture and there was an inch deep puddle 
>*>over half the floor.  They tell me that this doesn't happen 
>*>with today's plastic pipe.  But if it were to happen, 
>*>there's no reasonable way to fix it.  KISS.
>*>
>*>OTOH, it gets kinda cold in my shop.
>*>
>*>- Mike
>*>
>*>-- 
>*>Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
>*>                                                           /V\ 
>*>mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>*>http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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