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Jan. 19th, 2005 08:27 amSo, plenty good news this time, eh?
First off, this morning I turn on the shower and there's no hot water. Cold water sputters out, and then *poof* stops. Simple one knob thing, turn it a little and it's cold, turn it more and it gets warm, so on and so forth. None of this *poof* stop stuff. Wrap a towel around, go down cellar. Hot water seems fine. Try other faucets, and water is fine. Try the other shower - right next to the master bath, their pipes are probably intimate friends, if not one and the same for the most part - and it works. Try the master bath - still nothing. Think that's the first time I took a shower in the other bathroom. Tried the master bath again, let it "run" while I brushed teeth & dressed, and still nothing. Would guess "frozen" but that tends to happen to cold water, not working hot water. Valve is probably clogged with sediment given the problems this past weekend, which are still ongoing to a lesser degree.
Which brings me to last night, when I had to clean the washing machines cold water intake 6 times to complete the last rinse cycle on a load of clothes. Water filtration of some sort - which was on the list of home repair wants for some time in the next year or three - is going to be needed ASAP, or else everything using water (water pump, water heater, three toilets, four sinks, bathtub, shower, dishwasher, clothes washer) will need to be replaced as the sand and sediment scours through them. I didn't investigate too far, and only checked out 2 different kinds of filters - one with screen filtration, the other with a centrifuge - and they seem to run $500-1000, cost dependent on the size of the pipes. Oh, joy.
Of course, the real kicker happened earlier yesterday evening, when we read the results of the radon test we had done a week or so ago. Basement reading was 43 pCi/L with an estimated living area measurement at half of that. The EPA recommends remediation "as soon as possible" at 4 pCi/L or more, and considers 20 pCi/L a Very Bad Thing. Guess we're just keeping with the spirit of celebrating January 2005, which is National Radon Action Month (thus explaining the vast number of PSAs on the subject that I've seen lately.) First review of possible solutions involve $500-1500 for paint or other fixes. Personally, I can't see a coat of radon-proof paint helping all that much, especially if our numbers are more than 10 times higher than the must-fix level. Joy and rapture.
First off, this morning I turn on the shower and there's no hot water. Cold water sputters out, and then *poof* stops. Simple one knob thing, turn it a little and it's cold, turn it more and it gets warm, so on and so forth. None of this *poof* stop stuff. Wrap a towel around, go down cellar. Hot water seems fine. Try other faucets, and water is fine. Try the other shower - right next to the master bath, their pipes are probably intimate friends, if not one and the same for the most part - and it works. Try the master bath - still nothing. Think that's the first time I took a shower in the other bathroom. Tried the master bath again, let it "run" while I brushed teeth & dressed, and still nothing. Would guess "frozen" but that tends to happen to cold water, not working hot water. Valve is probably clogged with sediment given the problems this past weekend, which are still ongoing to a lesser degree.
Which brings me to last night, when I had to clean the washing machines cold water intake 6 times to complete the last rinse cycle on a load of clothes. Water filtration of some sort - which was on the list of home repair wants for some time in the next year or three - is going to be needed ASAP, or else everything using water (water pump, water heater, three toilets, four sinks, bathtub, shower, dishwasher, clothes washer) will need to be replaced as the sand and sediment scours through them. I didn't investigate too far, and only checked out 2 different kinds of filters - one with screen filtration, the other with a centrifuge - and they seem to run $500-1000, cost dependent on the size of the pipes. Oh, joy.
Of course, the real kicker happened earlier yesterday evening, when we read the results of the radon test we had done a week or so ago. Basement reading was 43 pCi/L with an estimated living area measurement at half of that. The EPA recommends remediation "as soon as possible" at 4 pCi/L or more, and considers 20 pCi/L a Very Bad Thing. Guess we're just keeping with the spirit of celebrating January 2005, which is National Radon Action Month (thus explaining the vast number of PSAs on the subject that I've seen lately.) First review of possible solutions involve $500-1500 for paint or other fixes. Personally, I can't see a coat of radon-proof paint helping all that much, especially if our numbers are more than 10 times higher than the must-fix level. Joy and rapture.
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