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1. crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: Eric@megageek.com
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:27:10 -0500
OK, in the northeast, we can't leave our hoses out all year or they will Many of us turn off the hose supply lines because they will freeze as well. Ib ve already installed deep ball valves that solv
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00032.html (8,257 bytes)

2. Re: crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: "William M. Gilroy" <w.lists@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:18:21 -0500
I have seen these hydrants work in your neck of the woods. Check out http://www.plumbingmart.com/freezehydrants.html You just have to walk the hose dry. _______________________ Bill Gilroy 77 MG Midg
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00033.html (8,052 bytes)

3. RE: crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:22:29 -0800
Seems to me that all you need is a regular globe or gate valve, with an extension on the handle long enough to extend through the wall (with suitable sealing). No need to go "far away", just 8 or 10
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00034.html (8,869 bytes)

4. Re: crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: "Michael Lowe" <mlowe@itrade-sa.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:47:18 -0700
Hello Inch, Here in Colorado Springs, I have just such a valve on the outside of the house, on the west wall. There seems to be a long stem on the valve going through the wall. We have 6" studs and i
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00035.html (9,468 bytes)

5. Re: crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: Rush <jdrush@enter.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:57:42 -0500
Thanks for the reminder <leaves to go disconnect his hose as it might fall below freezing tonight> Mostly because I wouldn't want field critters to have another way into the house. Jon
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00036.html (8,505 bytes)

6. Re: crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:12:56 -0500
Actually, those "deep ball valves" that people are chatting about have the worst failure mode if they freeze. These are the ones that look normal from the outside, but the knob is actually connected
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00038.html (9,632 bytes)

7. Re: crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: nick brearley <nick@landform.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:15:58 +0000
Inch, Have you got a retracting reel for the basement? Otherwise you may finish up with an ugly tangle of hose when you push it back through the wall. Have you considered an electric valve? These thi
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00040.html (9,475 bytes)

8. re: Crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: "Ian" <Shop-Talk@mcfetridge.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:32:52 -0500
We have a hose bib in our garage that comes in handy during the winter. The big uses one of those remote valves (handle in garage turns rod that turns the valve in the basement). I've never seen the
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00049.html (8,643 bytes)

9. RE: Crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: "Mullen, Tim \(IIS\)" <Tim.Mullen@ngc.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:05:15 -0500
Spread salt? Sorry, I couldn't resist... Tim Mullen
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00050.html (8,058 bytes)

10. Re: Crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:33:44 -0800
I would only note that this is true in areas with building codes. When traveling in China with a friend who's in the plumbing-supply business, he noted that such is not consistently the case there.
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00057.html (9,806 bytes)

11. Re: Crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:47:38 -0500
First of all, you aren't likely to get approval to connect a garage floor drain to a sanitary sewer. Anyways, I have a drain in my garage, and it does smell sometimes. Sometimes it's from using it no
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00058.html (9,545 bytes)

12. Re: Crazy idea that will work! (score: 1)
Author: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:02:45 -0600
IS a In Saint Paul, you won't get approval to connect it to anything else. Garage floor drains go to sanitary. Period. If the garage is attached, you can do it with internal plumbing. If the garage
/html/shop-talk/2004-12/msg00064.html (8,820 bytes)


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