[TheForge] OT frozen pipes

[Peter Hirst]

That is impressive.  We get spoiled around here with our wells.  Water table 
is pretty uniformly sea level, and the highest point on the Cape is only 300 
feet above that.  Most of it is less than 50 feet.  And no bedrock.  We're 
just a big sandbar sitting out on the continental shelf.   Lots of wells get 
driven with a sledge hammer or homemade Briggs & Stratton powered pile 
driver.  Commercial well rigs look like pickup-monted post hole augers with 
a few extra lengths of auger.  No drill bits.  Worst thing that happens is a 
little clay.

But is 15 F right now, and cheesy copper is bursting all over, if that's any 
consolation.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT frozen pipes


> 580'!! Wow! That's a deep hole and a strong pump. Gotta be expensive.
> If it eats copper i'd think you'd have to be extremely fastidious about 
> your stainless. Might be worth thinking about sacrifice anodes maybe?..pf
>
> Andrew Vida wrote:
>>
>>
>> David E. Smucker wrote:
>>> Andy,
>>>
>>> How does copper work in your area?  I was always a fan of copper until 
>>> we moved here to Brasstown, NC.  With most of the well water in this 
>>> area, it eats copper -- so any of the plastics are better.  Dad had the 
>>> same problem when they moved to Boulder, CO.  Just check around before 
>>> you go to copper. The well drillers here are the ones that told me to 
>>> stay away from copper --  most of the hardware stores here don't even 
>>> carry it any more.  (and I had lots of copper fittings on hand when I 
>>> built this house.)
>>
>>     Good point.  Our well is moderately deep at 580' - water seems very 
>> sweet, but a pH check may be a good idea prior to any changes.
>>
>>     What about stainless tubing?  Overkill, sure... but I wonder how it 
>> would hold up vis-a-vis copper.
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