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Water main break in my area, no water. Canadian problems require Canadian solutions

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
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Now I just need to convert this into water. A taste of semi off grid living. 😛
 
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I think Winnipeg had to deal with this a few years back. Some Chinese restaurant was in deep trouble or something.

I thought you guys would have stricter standards regarding pipe depth.
 
That's not your only problem. My Bitdefender has decided that you are untrustworthy and is now blocking your links to protect me. 😄
 
Pipes are usually like 10 feet, problem is we don't get as much snow now days so it does not insulate enough, that and they use so much salt on the roads so lot of them just stay down to the pavement most of the year instead of forming a snow layer.

Lot of the pipes are old too and they keep spending the water/sewer budget on 60+ million dollar treatment plants that don't end up ever being put in service. There is one plant that was built years back on swamp land and it started to sink so they just abandoned it. That money could have gone towards fixing aging pipes instead.

As a side note, it turns out melting snow indoors is harder than I figured. I may resort to sticking a bunch of telecom wire in the bucket and running current through it but I'm trying to see if I can boil enough water to at least get the bottom to be melted and it might help the rest to melt before I start messing around with power supplies.
 
That's messed up... wonder if my domain is in some kind of black list for some reason. Actually I never setup letsencrypt on that domain so not even sure why it's complaining about a certificate when it's not https.

Changed it to imgur for now. Going to have to look more into this. I wonder if there is something equivalant to RBLs for websites maybe somehow my domains made it in it.
 
Even if the lines are deep enough, below the freeze line, the ground will still heave and burst pipes.
 
Red Squirrel said:
That's messed up... wonder if my domain is in some kind of black list for some reason. Actually I never setup letsencrypt on that domain so not even sure why it's complaining about a certificate when it's not https.

Changed it to imgur for now. Going to have to look more into this. I wonder if there is something equivalant to RBLs for websites maybe somehow my domains made it in it.
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I didn't get any kind of warning...your original pic just never appeared...thus my "did they hook you up to a moose?" comment.
 
Red Squirrel said:
That's messed up... wonder if my domain is in some kind of black list for some reason. Actually I never setup letsencrypt on that domain so not even sure why it's complaining about a certificate when it's not https.

Changed it to imgur for now. Going to have to look more into this. I wonder if there is something equivalant to RBLs for websites maybe somehow my domains made it in it.
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Of course it may not be your DOMAIN that's been blacklisted .... 😳
 
Red Squirrel said:
Pipes are usually like 10 feet, problem is we don't get as much snow now days so it does not insulate enough, that and they use so much salt on the roads so lot of them just stay down to the pavement most of the year instead of forming a snow layer.

Lot of the pipes are old too and they keep spending the water/sewer budget on 60+ million dollar treatment plants that don't end up ever being put in service. There is one plant that was built years back on swamp land and it started to sink so they just abandoned it. That money could have gone towards fixing aging pipes instead.

As a side note, it turns out melting snow indoors is harder than I figured. I may resort to sticking a bunch of telecom wire in the bucket and running current through it but I'm trying to see if I can boil enough water to at least get the bottom to be melted and it might help the rest to melt before I start messing around with power supplies.
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Lol, it'll be a while with water's specific heat.

The much more milder Maryland had snowstorms and a hair dryer vs snow has the snow winning for quite a while. You guys have hardcore cold and that snow is gonna be one tough cooke.
 
Torn Mind said:
Lol, it'll be a while with water's specific heat.

The much more milder Maryland had snowstorms and a hair dryer vs snow has the snow winning for quite a while. You guys have hardcore cold and that snow is gonna be one tough cooke.
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Yeah heat gun was not doing much lol. Boiling water and pouring it in seems to help but even that is not doing that big a dent. I'm getting enough to flush the toilet by mostly waiting too as it slowly melts.

If I get desperate I got some nichrome wire I can play with but I just know that if I start to put any kind of effort the water service will come back literally after I'm done building something. It's my luck. 😛

Going to bed soon anyway so chances are it will be back by morning.
 
Water still out, got enough water to go pee and wash my hands then I'll go to bed and should have enough melted snow by later at night when I need to wake up to pee again.

Fun times lol.
 
Still out, now I see a mini excavator working in my neighbour's yard so I assume that's what they're working on. The snow is mostly melted now so I have more water at least.
 
BoomerD said:
just pee outside...why waste water?
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Pretty sure the "keep Timmins Beautiful" committee will be knock on his door, if he's pissing in his front lawn, and leaving messages for the county/city gov't or something, LOL.

Edit: On second thought, do it! Try to piss "LOWER TAXES" on your front lawn. See what happens.
 
VirtualLarry said:
Pretty sure the "keep Timmins Beautiful" committee will be knock on his door, if he's pissing in his front lawn, and leaving messages for the county/city gov't or something, LOL.

Edit: On second thought, do it! Try to piss "LOWER TAXES" on your front lawn. See what happens.
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or..."Don't Eat Yellow Snow."
Better yet..."FIX MY WATER PIPES,"
 
BoomerD said:
just pee outside...why waste water?
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Still need to wash my hands. That, and shrinkage is a real problem trying to do it outside. 😛 But yeah I should get a tax break for this. Knock off a couple hundred off this month's bill at least. 😛 If only.

It's back now though. Went to my sister's house to take a shower in case it ends up going a whole other night but just got home and water is back now.
 
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