in shower or faucets? If faucets clean the aerators

nope. you clearly aren't interested. And not very good at comprehension. So it's unlikely to be useful

as long as you are overeating properly. That's the essence of these things for me.

Also my stomach hurts

If you can't find it you can call 811 and have it marked

Yes local freeze. Start dripping the hot there that will freeze next. Running hot water won't do anything except for delay freezing the hot pipe which is a good thing

Try and get more heat in the bathroom and watch for water spraying everywhere when it thaws out. If it's pex you probably won't have a problem if it's copper you might. You need to know how to shut your house water down instantly before it happens.

If you see leaks you want to open up all the Cold taps below it and shut the water off as soon as possible. Shut water off first then open the taps to relieve pressure

You can do it at the water meter with the street key or go looking for where the cold enter your house. If it's a crawl I would go straight to the meter

Thank you. Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah.

Tell me more I've only been doing plumbing on houses for 25 odd years or so... Always more to learn

But so far the places sediment plugs up are pretty consistent and yes that would be the faucet aerators. So we bleed something without an aerator first then we pulled the aerators and bleed the faucets. It's really not a big deal except for the new grohe aerators which are complete pain if you misplace their stupid doohickey

Yeah but the shut off for that is usually right inside and in truth I've never heard of anything busting there even though the ones a foot in make me a little nervous

Best reason for Street key is how easy it is though unless you have a basement and a quarter turn

Probably yes. And I guess finding out early that your contractor cut corners is better than later

Still turn off the house water if you go out of town in the winter though

No power issue in museum district so far that I have seen

Getting a friend to check your pipes would be a good idea though

Oh God squirrels are horribly destructive. I hate the f****** so much. They love to chew on things ideally the most expensive thing especially electrical wiring or Plumbing

They are like big furry termites

No I haven't but I do get Bill emails.

A although for all I know they went to spam

In some places. But they delay the freeze and they just change the thermocline location they don't necessarily fix things

No it works I'm not exactly sure what happened there. Though by works I don't mean it's foolproof or anything.

If you don't drain the system it's going to be a minor annoyance but balancing that against the likelihood I wouldn't bother and I don't. Turning the shut off so the city doesn't fill the place up with water is pretty key though

Yes. Type of heat has nothing to do with the issue

As someone who used to do construction in Massachusetts it happens all the time up there

Yep. Icing pipes is the big culprit but I do it all year round

All water city and well usually has some gunk in it that gets stirred up. But you only need to pop the aerators and whatever filters to fix it it's not actually a big deal. Sort of thing that will take you two minutes

While true it's not a big deal you just pop the aerators off

Truth is even pressurized if you dump 5 gallons it will be a pain in the ass but not a disaster. One room's worth of hardwood floors say

Thermocline is the temperature gradient it's dependent upon the house insulation (in this context)

If you've got a really well insulated house with pipes that aren't in the outside walls 55 will be fine. If you've got an old Richmond house with pipes in the outside walls 55 at the thermostat might mean 20 at the pipe in fact frequently does

In most situations you don't need a key to the house you can do it at the water meter with a street key

Sorry. Seriously. Didn't occur to me to post it until I saw something here today and I was like oh my God

I'm sorry for both of you