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[ronott1]

Assembling the last side of the solar water heater. I need some pvc pipe for the vent and some fittings. I will pick that up on my shopping trip tomorrow. TSC has a sale starting that day so i will do a multi store trip as usual.
I think i may try to plant some daffodils today if i can dredge up enough energy. Husband gave me a bottle of glucosamine and the cats or dogs must have knocked it down and it rolled under somthing because i can't seem to find it. I need something to help these stiff old joints. It must be hell to be 80!

Sounds like the heater is coming along!

I hope the glucosamine helps when you find it!

 

[chickadoodles]

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Thank you so much!

 

[chickadoodles]

Ron how wonderful that your DW is feeling better. I'm so sorry about all the pain med's mess!

Scg I'll bet your BF can faucet the thing for you.
So sorry you did not get any sleep.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Nope he will build anything I need and he can set up all kinds of electronics but he has zero clue about plumbing. I'm not allowed to touch electricity anymore and I suspect plumbing will have a similar outcome.

 

[CapricornFarm]

OMG, these glucosamine pills are like subs and i am supposed to take three!
Overcast now, but at least not too windy! Not supposed to rain today.
Slack builder guys called off with family problems today. And of course they won't show up Thursday. Yes, my goat shed may be finished for Christmas.

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry SCG... having been a Maine-eeeack for a dozen or so years, I can vouch for the situations you often describe. If you look at the main spigot body below the turn handle you may see what looks like a "nut" that can be turned by a wrench. Many have it but it's just for show and can't be turned.

If it's the type that can be turned, you can rebuild the valve assembly, which will replace the turn shaft which is stripping out. Know what, never mind that... here...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Homewer...h-Push-Fit-Connections-P140-8-12x14/203518405

You'll need to turn the water off at source and then take out the mounting screws outside holding the spigot to the wall. Inside, as close to the outside wall as possible, cut the existing supply pipe and remove the existing spigot by pulling it through the wall outside. Then insert the replacement (above).
When you go back to the basement, pull it in tight and mark the supply pipe where it will need to be cut. push the new spigot out enough to cut the pipe, clean the burrs off the end and then connect the spigot to the pipe. Then go back outside and re-screw the new spigot to the wall.

this is 14" anti freeze siphon fitting. I think they make up to 18" but didn't see one listed at HD. As cold as you folks get, the longer the better.

It has a shark bite like fitting, so just push to connect, no soldering or anything. Should work with copper or PEX type plumbing. If your house is standard sized, it should be 1/2" pipe.

 

[bruceha2000]

I'll report how they do when we have our first ice event. Anything to keep from sliding on glare ice, slamming into a fence post and breaking ribs not to mention injuring my back is worth a try.

Please do because if it does work, I might do something similar to my old boots!

Turks thaw'in soon as I can get the giblets out am going to start the stock.

Oohhh, good idea. My Turkey is fresh but if I make the stock for the gravy tomorrow, that will save me precious time Wednesday!!

Alpacas don't go in a nice pile? When we were moving our llamas to a new pen...I always took a shovelful of their pellets and dumped it where I wanted them to go. That always was enough to convince them to go where I wanted them to...lol. It's one of my favorite traits about them.

They DO go to their pile but after it gets about a foot or two high, they move sideways a bit and start "fresh". I imagine if I picked it up and moved it somewhere outside their space they would keep using the same location. But then I would have to be moving fresh 'paca poo every day or two and who wants to do that? The chickens dig around in the slightly older stuff.

@superchemicalgirl Always trust your gut! And given what you posted about the Craig's List guy, your gut was right on. I wouldn't let him touch the spigot even to turn it on!

 

[Latestarter]

As an aside SCG, be thankful you have a basement to work in doing this and don't have to belly crawl into a dark, wet, confined, dirty, crawl space...

 

[bruceha2000]

I have one like that @Latestarter and I can't use it in the winter. The valve stem freezes, probably at that nut, so it can't be turned.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'm good with everything up to and after "cut the pipe."

First plumber called me back (had his wife call me back) that he's booking to January and to find someone else, they did give me a number. That guy is about a mile down the road, informed me that the road I lived on used to be "the main road" back in the 1950's and once I said I knew the people that lived at the end of my road "a few weeks" turned into "probably next week."

Now the only way I know the guy at the end of the road is I met him at the town sand dump one day maybe last winter or the winter before and he introduced himself and said that BF never waves at him when he drives by.

I figure I know him, right?