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[007Sean]

A short vid of yesterday, when the snow started up again, George and Corona, a few shots of some birds.
George and Corona have a love/hate relationship! Corona loves to attack George and George hates it!
Corona lost his 7' tail feathers a couple of months ago...I guess to a predator attack? One day they were there, the next gone!

 

[electrycmonk]

@007Sean here's the shattered remains realigned for relative locations. As some cheater points of interest. The orange arrow is the exploded filter assembly for the yard and sprinklers. The Green arrow is from the top of the 100gal. Settling tank thru the 90° along the wall over to the PSI gauge right before the Tee splitting for house and outside. Note the PSI currently held in the gauge from the ice still in the pipe below it. The Galvanized tanks "appear" to be still functional although the 100gal tank had the belly bubble down on half of it.... Causing that tilt.



Every segment of the jigsaw puzzle has shattered, split, snapped, burst, or disintegrated pipe sections.
This is a serious learning lesson.

Had I been able to build the new well house like I had planned before covid showed up.... This would not have occurred. (Deep sigh) shrugs....

Well, now to see if I can create a temporary plumbed line from wellhead to the pipe going into the house by Sunday? (Shrugs)

 

[007Sean]

@007Sean here's the shattered remains realigned for relative locations. As some cheater points of interest. The orange arrow is the exploded filter assembly for the yard and sprinklers. The Green arrow is from the top of the 100gal. Settling tank thru the 90° along the wall over to the PSI gauge right before the Tee splitting for house and outside. Note the PSI currently held in the gauge from the ice still in the pipe below it. The Galvanized tanks "appear" to be still functional although the 100gal tank had the belly bubble down on half of it.... Causing that tilt.
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Every segment of the jigsaw puzzle has shattered, split, snapped, burst, or disintegrated pipe sections.
This is a serious learning lesson.

Had I been able to build the new well house like I had planned before covid showed up.... This would not have occurred. (Deep sigh) shrugs....

Well, now to see if I can create a temporary plumbed line from wellhead to the pipe going into the house by Sunday? (Shrugs)

Oh how I feel your pain....I'm going through the same thing here, not just the one break/schattering i could see the other day....it has warmed up and several sections have to be replaced....I'm just going to totally redo everything, when I get a chance maybe Monday....I've gone this long without water, a couple of more days won't matter. Besides I have to go and find more fittings and pipe.

Wednesday, when I was at HD, they were out of 3/4" pipe and alot of fittings. Went to another HD in New Braunfels and got the remaining fittings I needed, but like the Seguin HD no 3/4" pipe. I bought what I needed at the time, not realizing the repair was as extensive as first thought. <sigh> now I need both 1" and 3/4" pipe....and hope I can find more 45° street L's, 1" to 3/4" tees, and unions.

 

[NickyPick]

@007Sean here's the shattered remains realigned for relative locations. As some cheater points of interest. The orange arrow is the exploded filter assembly for the yard and sprinklers. The Green arrow is from the top of the 100gal. Settling tank thru the 90° along the wall over to the PSI gauge right before the Tee splitting for house and outside. Note the PSI currently held in the gauge from the ice still in the pipe below it. The Galvanized tanks "appear" to be still functional although the 100gal tank had the belly bubble down on half of it.... Causing that tilt.
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Every segment of the jigsaw puzzle has shattered, split, snapped, burst, or disintegrated pipe sections.
This is a serious learning lesson.

Had I been able to build the new well house like I had planned before covid showed up.... This would not have occurred. (Deep sigh) shrugs....

Well, now to see if I can create a temporary plumbed line from wellhead to the pipe going into the house by Sunday? (Shrugs)

I only have one shattered pipe on my well, but even with all the foam wrapping and blankets, it still froze. I've been thinking I need some kind of hut around it. Is that what you mean by well house? Would just having it surrounded make a difference, or do you need to add some kind of heat as well (if in a frozen situation like we just all experienced)

 

[Matejka]

I only have one shattered pipe on my well, but even with all the foam wrapping and blankets, it still froze. I've been thinking I need some kind of hut around it. Is that what you mean by well house? Would just having it surrounded make a difference, or do you need to add some kind of heat as well (if in a frozen situation like we just all experienced)

Our pumphouse or wellhouse outside and inside. No insulation electric heater.

 

[electrycmonk]

I only have one shattered pipe on my well, but even with all the foam wrapping and blankets, it still froze. I've been thinking I need some kind of hut around it. Is that what you mean by well house? Would just having it surrounded make a difference, or do you need to add some kind of heat as well (if in a frozen situation like we just all experienced)

Original owners had absolutely no clue and the installation was a freaking joke.
I put in wall and ceiling insulation. Then I put pipe heat wrap & then foam over it.
Sadly I had removed the pipe heat wrap last spring in prep for building the replacement well house. Then covid hit.
Well house was going to have 4x the insulation (4+inches of dense foam) and I was going to keep the pipe heat wrap and foam over a majority of it when I redid it. The winds up here on the hill are notoriously near constant over the last 11 years. We have had a few partial pipe freezes over the years with a thaw out successful over a 24hr period in the past. But, this -12 to -19° wind chill for hours and hours.... Nothing held up. The insulation was blown around and dislodged in several places. I'm originally from Michigan. Was taught to prep pipes for winter every year living in a lake, prep the well that pulled water from the lake for sprinklers and spigots around their house... The drain it all and the other winterized stuff. Ah well..... At least the pump is safe.

 

[Derangedplanet]

Original owners had absolutely no clue and the installation was a freaking joke.
I put in wall and ceiling insulation. Then I put pipe heat wrap & then foam over it.
Sadly I had removed the pipe heat wrap last spring in prep for building the replacement well house. Then covid hit.
Well house was going to have 4x the insulation (4+inches of dense foam) and I was going to keep the pipe heat wrap and foam over a majority of it when I redid it. The winds up here on the hill are notoriously near constant over the last 11 years. We have had a few partial pipe freezes over the years with a thaw out successful over a 24hr period in the past. But, this -12 to -19° wind chill for hours and hours.... Nothing held up. The insulation was blown around and dislodged in several places. I'm originally from Michigan. Was taught to prep pipes for winter every year living in a lake, prep the well that pulled water from the lake for sprinklers and spigots around their house... The drain it all and the other winterized stuff. Ah well..... At least the pump is safe.

Yeah moving down to the south has given me a false sense of security and some bad habits when it comes to winter prep. I put off even insulating the pipes outside my new home until the freezing weather had already started. Even tho I new it was coming

 

[NickyPick]

Original owners had absolutely no clue and the installation was a freaking joke.
I put in wall and ceiling insulation. Then I put pipe heat wrap & then foam over it.
Sadly I had removed the pipe heat wrap last spring in prep for building the replacement well house. Then covid hit.
Well house was going to have 4x the insulation (4+inches of dense foam) and I was going to keep the pipe heat wrap and foam over a majority of it when I redid it. The winds up here on the hill are notoriously near constant over the last 11 years. We have had a few partial pipe freezes over the years with a thaw out successful over a 24hr period in the past. But, this -12 to -19° wind chill for hours and hours.... Nothing held up. The insulation was blown around and dislodged in several places. I'm originally from Michigan. Was taught to prep pipes for winter every year living in a lake, prep the well that pulled water from the lake for sprinklers and spigots around their house... The drain it all and the other winterized stuff. Ah well..... At least the pump is safe.

I've got a friend from Michigan and all he's been doing is bit/complaining about how unprepared we are here in Texas. Heck, I don't even own a heavy coat! I keep trying to tell him to get his head out of his heiney and teach us some things we could learn about how to deal with this cold, but he's lost in the political morass. ::sigh:: If you could point me towards a website or any information about how they prep pipes in the north/midwest-north, I'd appreciate it. It may be overkill for down here, but if it means I never have another busted/frozen pipe, I'll be happy.

 

[NickyPick]

But, on the other hand, all my birds (94 of them), have weathered this cold just fine. No one went out at all on Monday - Tuesday. Just the turkeys and the youngest chickens on Wednesday-Thursday. Today, everyone was out ranging (except for the oldies (5-10 year olds), but they never go out much anyway).
I've had buckets under every roof the last two days, so I've caught a lot of melt water off the roofs. Should keep the animals in water until my well guy can show up.

 

[Kiki]

What I find ironic and total ignorance on the part of some peep's is they bought all the frozen foods(mostly tv dinners)....uh, excuse me but how are you going to heat that up without electricity?

This idiot at the grocery store today told me how they can't wait for the boil water thing to be over with because they are sick of boiling water to flush the toilet. I laughed so hard I almost peed in my pants. I just laughed as I walked away quickly...before I could say something.