Recent content by Not_a_slumlord

yes, but the pipe complains mightily

It makes the sound when fully on. That's why she is keeping a trickle going through to prevent full freezing and rupturing.

No, I'm on city water. It's gravity fed from a water tower on a nearby hill.

No, I did not. I think Ken's explanation is likely. I suspect the water was hovering just above 0 °C. The pipe felt very cold. I'm glad the tenant was home to find the loud pipe: otherwise, I suspect a burst pipe and flooded basement were likely. I had been more worried about the pipes that are...

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Thanks Ken, I can convert temperatures between 0 and 25 °C in my head easily. She's keeping it close to 20 C, so the thermal shock makes sense. No human who has rented that apartment in the years I've owned the house has made that particular complaint. Nor have we had a spate of extreme cold of...

As a scientist, I would be elated to be talking about degrees centigrade, and if we were talking about water temperatures suitable for growth of trout, I would be using centigrade. I've never had to convert these temperatures to celcius, but -30 is cold regardless of units of measure.

I am a female as well. I trouble-shoot, so sod off, or whatever they say in the UK. I am in the US, I hadn't noticed this message board was out of the UK, but it was the first message board that popped up when I did a search. I don't see how plumbing can vary that much among nations, so why...

I have a basement apartment. The tenant informed me 3 days ago that the a pipe moaned when she turned the cold water on in the kitchen sink. It's been extremely cold for the past 2 weeks, with temps lower than -30 °F at night, and warming to 1 or 2 °F during the day on the really warm days. None...