Bad luck hounds the Double Hovel. You'd think it was overflow bad luck from The Pony not having enough avenues to suffer these days!
The main house is still doing fine, after Hick had discovered the heat off and some water on the kitchen floor last week. While he was checking it on Monday morning, he also went over to check the Beauty Shop. THE WATER FROZE!
It's not totally unexpected that the water might freeze, since the temperature was -2 degrees when Hick got there. We don't usually get that cold around here. Maybe once every year or two. I hope this is it for this year! I think this was the third night in a row.
Anyhoo... with nobody living there, the water isn't running through the pipes from showers and dishwashing and toilets flushing. I asked Hick why he didn't leave the faucets dripping overnight. He said you'd have to do that with every faucet, not just one. Well. That would only be kitchen sink, bathtub, and bathroom sink. It's not like there are three bathrooms like we have in our mansion. But there IS a laundry room.
Anyhoo... Hick was surprised. He said he had so much insulation around the pipes that he thought they'd never freeze. He's not too worried, because he used Pex pipe, which is plastic and expands. He thinks the issue might be where the main water line comes into the house. It's copper. Hick had built a box to enclose that pipe where it comes in on the front of the house, and insulated the pipe above the ground. He thought that would work, but he doesn't know how deep that pipe is in the ground. If somebody was living there, using water regularly, it would probably have been fine. Hick and Old Buddy had talked about it on the phone, and Old Buddy said he's ready to work whenever Hick is.
Anyhoo... Bargain House was just fine, no issues. So there's that. Meanwhile, Hick will have to wait for the thaw, which is supposed to happen Wednesday with mid-30s for the high temperature. It might take a couple days, but Hick will get to the bottom of that pipe problem, and fix it.
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