When I was researching the plumbing, I watched a youtube video highlighting the indestructible qualities of Pex tubing. A guy filled a few lengths of Pex with water, capped the ends, froze them, and proceeded to bash them with a hammer. The Pex was unfazed. Further research indicated that this is the industry standard in Alaska. Good enough for Alaska, good enough for NC, I figured. So I wasn't at all concerned about draining the plumbing system when the temperature started to plunge. What I failed to take into account, however, was that the Pex connected in several places to unforgiving brass and hard plastic fixtures. I casually went out one 50 degree day after a few days of solid freeze and turned on the pump. It hummed to life, the unmistakable hiss and patter of water followed shortly afterward, and I noticed we suddenly had a sprinkler system in the back of the bus. I inventoried the damage: we lost the shower faucet, the main valve assembly to the water heater, and the condenser. Pex held up beautifully. $150 worth of repairs later and we were back in business. Now we'll have to figure how how to make the system viable in the winter. Challenge accepted.
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November 2016
AuthorsBen and Courtney MacDonald - We married in September 2014 and just do our best to live life in gratitude every day. As Ram Dass writes, "We're all just walking each other home." We enjoy figuring out where home is. Categories |