To my fellow STREAMERS:

Thanks to all those who wished me luck. Now I think I might need some.

The silver bullet is mine now and I think so is a plumbing nightmare. It had not been winterized properly last year and the pumbing has been poorly patched. Different sizes of plastic tubing used both for hot and cold at the kitchen sink and even the main line coming in and around the water heater and other lines as well. While I was investigating one of these clamped on pieces of plastic tubing (on the main supply line) let go and a full stream of water went everywhere before I could run out and shut the main supply off. Before that, when I was feeling on top of the potable water tank (under the floor accessing from under the kitchen sink) I could feel wet insulation. Oh oh! There must have some leakage off and on all summer and now tonight's flood. How should I try to dry out the undercarriage to prevent the frame and floor rotting out. Should I carefully drill some holes in the skin from underneath? I would really like to open things up to let them dry. I can always put putty over the small holes in the spring.

It is time to winterize now anyway but I kept Charlie/Betty Burke's posting on winterizing to help me out.

Come spring should I replace the lines with copper or are there any alternatives which might be better? Are Swage Lock fittings to join copper pipe my best best and easiest way to go? I am handy but haven't had to do very much major plumbing before. Maybe I had better sign up for plumbing 101?

Thanx,

Any comments on or off the newsgroup are welcomed.

Radar!
77 Excella 500
Burlington, Ontario, CANADA