Winter cleaning

[Scott S.]

The biggest pain in the winter around here is when I pull in the driveway and it has a slight coat of ice or snow and I go in to see the job and i come out and find my van has slide down the drive way. It has always stop when it gets to the bottom but it happens at least 2-3 times a year to me. Parking brake on and everything.

As for snow on the hose just depends how cold it is as for how much i try to clean it off but it is no big deal.

carry a small bag of salt, or put salt in a 5 gallon pail and sprinkle it on before you pull up, or at least behind the tires.

you could use some sand too. that would probably be alot less mess.

 

[Mikey P]

gee...thanks Boyle!

 

[Kevin B]

we have the type that shuts off deep under the home here.

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and these..

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That top pic can still freeze. If it gets cold enough...

 

[Jeffrey Tobian]

buy an adapter kit and hook up inside the house.

I have one, but I hate to drag a garden hose in their home . Sometimes I will if my water tank runs out of water. Their are a lot of large homes in the town that I live in , over 10,000 sq ft.

 

[rjwood]

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Now operating a garden hose feed in this kind of weather gets really difficult, plus finding an outside hook up not very likely....and even those frost free hook ups we have had them being broken when we tap into them....

Homeowners make the mistake of leaving a garden hose hooked up too long, they freeze and then split back inside the home and you cannot see.

Anytime we hook into an outside water spigot we are very leery of what could be waiting for a flood inside the home and you will be blamed for causing it...even though you just avoided them being the first ones to hook up to it in the Spring and flood their home.


This frost free pipe cost me about $1000 or more about 5 years ago....plus ended up doing about $800 worth of work for free too. Home owner was there, asked if we could tap into here outside spigot and we were listening inside for any leaks....sure enough....busted from hose on too long....she freaked as we got water on the floor, 4 ceiling tiles got sprayed and we could have killed her pups in their kennels down there.... (cost was $375 to a plumber to replace and fix, air movers to dry out and time, and broke a Punch bowl she had sitting on the steps as I rounded the corner going downstairs with airmovers....ugh...)

Then she asked me if I thought if she should worry about the spigot on the other side of the house too....Told her YES...WORRY!

But I am not testing it for her today!

So, we avoid tapping into anyone's water source....

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I had a similar event occur this past year. Nightmare! The lady's basement got a couple of inches of water due to a broken pipe behind the spigot. Of course it was all my fault. I sucked the water out, dried the basement best I could and handed her her check back and left.

The carpeting looked outstanding too and was trashed beforehand. During her ranting the said that she was conflicted because she had watched me work so hard and that the carpeting looked so good.......but......

She won't call me again and I'm more than okay with that.

 

[Spurlington]

I have one, but I hate to drag a garden hose in their home . Sometimes I will if my water tank runs out of water. Their are a lot of large homes in the town that I live in , over 10,000 sq ft.

I used to use a 50ft florescent orange air hose as an emergency back up to connect from the kitchen or bath sink to my garden hose which I had outside the front door to the water tank. It was very light and only cost $10. I had shut off valves at each end so that I could wrap it up in the house without dripping to keep it as clean as it would stay.

 

[Art Kelley]

I used to use a 50ft florescent orange air hose as an emergency back up to connect from the kitchen or bath sink to my garden hose which I had outside the front door to the water tank. It was very light and only cost $10. I had shut off valves at each end so that I could wrap it up in the house without dripping to keep it as clean as it would stay.

I just use my spare TM hose which although is 1/4" 100' line, is always clean, and being Parflrex is lightweight. Takes a while longer than 1/2" garden hose but doesn't make a mess and doesn't drip.