biere
Veteran Member
I am taking it this is for all concerns of the cold coming, if not just say so.
Anyway, east tn has had a major issue with pipes freezing. Some is from redneck engineers not doing things well but even the city pipes and stuff had some issues as well because of the extended period of below freezing cold.
Landlord and I are going to redo the plumbing of the place I rent from him and I plan to take it to what I learned for southern ohio specs.
And with how the city water is setup or the old well I think that works no matter what happens.
But if it gets truly cold for a long time, it sure won't be enough.
How do you deal with a house or plumbing that was not built for what is coming?
Upgrading to the cold that folks 250 miles or so north of you get is often possible, but the roof on this place won't handle a snow load well. Metal roof is in the future as well.
Land lord grew up in this house so I am lucky in that he wants to always keep the house and upgrade things.
Clothes for me or betting insulation for the house can be dealt with. But the structure is hard to change in major ways and I feel lucky that the plumbing is already silly so redoing it was a short discussion. Doing it to ohio specs won't cost much more and with how everything has been freezing, even sounded like a good idea to the landlord.
Anyway, east tn has had a major issue with pipes freezing. Some is from redneck engineers not doing things well but even the city pipes and stuff had some issues as well because of the extended period of below freezing cold.
Landlord and I are going to redo the plumbing of the place I rent from him and I plan to take it to what I learned for southern ohio specs.
And with how the city water is setup or the old well I think that works no matter what happens.
But if it gets truly cold for a long time, it sure won't be enough.
How do you deal with a house or plumbing that was not built for what is coming?
Upgrading to the cold that folks 250 miles or so north of you get is often possible, but the roof on this place won't handle a snow load well. Metal roof is in the future as well.
Land lord grew up in this house so I am lucky in that he wants to always keep the house and upgrade things.
Clothes for me or betting insulation for the house can be dealt with. But the structure is hard to change in major ways and I feel lucky that the plumbing is already silly so redoing it was a short discussion. Doing it to ohio specs won't cost much more and with how everything has been freezing, even sounded like a good idea to the landlord.