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Howdy folks,
We recently had a hot water heater installed at our BTV home by KCM plumbing in Arnold. He did an excellent job. 795-6129. There is also a local BTV handyman named Ed, I can’t think of his last name at the moment, who treated a similar event 10 years ago as an emergency. We had 15 pipes break. Ed’s repairs are still holding up.
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When we had a broken pipe at our cabin in Dorrington on Easter weekend, we asked at Camp Connell store for recommendations. After several phone calls, we were able to find someone to come out. (Sorry can’t recall the name.) Perhaps call the store and ask for suggestions? I think one of the recommendations was Russell J Peffer Plumbing (209) 795-4551 Arnold, CA
Helene
We usually use Bertini, but can’t get a call back this morning. We have a burst pipe. Anyone have any other recommendations? Thanks!
I’m at 1900′ in Cool, near Auburn, and we have 6″ of snow. I imagine from the pictures on this website that there must be closer to a foot of snow. Thanks for the service, Big Trees Tech!
JohnFrom the Caltrans site at 6:00 am Saturday:
“CHAINS ARE REQUIRED ON ALL VEHICLES EXCEPT 4-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLES WITH SNOW
TIRES ON ALL 4 WHEELS FROM 1.5 MI WEST OF MURPHYS (CALAVERAS CO) TO THE
MT REBA TURNOFF (ALPINE CO)”a short google short returns this
http://thepinetree.net/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=38332Murphy’s Nursery reportedly has them.
Local 4H club has a tree lot next to the car wash in Murphys. It’s open Mon.-Fri. 4-6pm and Sat.& Sun. 9am-6pm.
Does anyone know where they sell “Silver Tip” Christmas trees along the Highway 4 corridor (between here and Angels Camp)?
Since Pex is plastic, you don’t need to worry about the galvanic issues that you would have mixing metals like copper and galvy. That said, removing all galvy is a good thing to do just to avoid rusting and pipe failure from any galvy you leave in the system.
At my place I ran 1″ pex buried 2 ft deep from the meter to the house. I transitioned to copper about 3 ft from the house for physical durability and because plastics don’t like sunlight. That copper comes up from the ground and goes into the garage. The pipe is protected with self regulating heat tape. I stuck with the copper in the garage for the physical strength.
That copper goes into the hot water tank and into the whole house cold water manifold. About 10 smaller PEX lines then run from there to the individual faucets. The hot water outlet goes into another manifold with hot water lines to each faucet.
I also have a spare outlet on the manifold that I can open up and put compressed air into if I want to blow the lines clear of water for freezing issues.
All plumbing (other than the manifold) is inside the heated building envelope to prevent freezing.
