Atlanta got hit pretty bad yesterday. Part of the problem was terrible planning by the city and schools.
All decided to close at the same time and did it way to late.
There were some people stuck in traffic jams fro more than 14hrs.
A lot of kids didn't get out of school in time and had to spend the night at school.
It took my cousin 4hrs to get her kids out of school which was only 20miles away and one is a handicapped and in a wheel chair. Talk about be furious if she hadn't have been able to get him.
We had a 25 car pile up on one interstate this morning and many other wrecks on other roads and the other interstate hwy.
We only got about 3 inches of snow but it rained / sleeted for 2hrs before that. It was about 33, 34 today which melted a lot of the snow, but it's suppose to be 16 tonight.
I've had a problem every since I bought this house of my kitchen water line freezing every time it got down around 20 degrees.
I knew that a moron plumber put the water line all the way against the brick and probably didn't have any insulation
around it.
After it's frozen twice this year I figured I'd go ahead and tackle it before it busted. Needless to say I wasn't going to completely remove the entire kitchen counter top, sink, garbage disposal, dry wall, etc, so I cheated and just cut a small access panel out.
Needless to say it was a moron plumber for sure. The cold water line has a T that goes to an outside faucet and the pipe is pulled so tight into the wall there is no room for anything to go around it. They actually already hacked away at the inside of the brick to fit it in there. Not to mention a lot of air comes in through that hole and from somewhere else. I could feel a good draft blowing in this side of my house is well protected from the wind.
I had to use a chisel and hammer and cut a bunch of brick out to get enough room to wrap the line. As you know it's not much fun working under a sink all day much less lying on your back, stomach and side with a hammer and chisel then trying to insulate everything.
It's not pretty but it's done.
How it was
Some of it done. I actually removed every bit of the mortar and brick on the left and cleaned it all up so I could wrap it and get some foam behind it to stop any air from getting in. Whoops, knocked a hole all the way through by the faucet, but at least know I can get it wrapped all the way.
Almost finished and no more draft.
