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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.
Yes, KCRA is usually good. However, like I said, I’ve never seen such a large discrepancy before… and then this morning KCRA reported that the DOW was down 94 points when actually it was up 23 (at that time). Maybe they had a computer hiccup.
I always rely on Mark Finan on KCRA TV. He’s batting about 999. He uses the computer model plus his brain. 🙂
Coming up Saturday late morning. Hoping for the first snow cones of the season. Let’s hope that the regional forecast is right and Weather.com is wrong!
The first and most important thing you must do is remove all galvanized pipe. If you are taking the time to re-plumb portions of your place, do it right and do it all.
If you don’t, trust me you will regret it.
