Recent content by cosmicthinker

What is upsetting about Win 10 is that I never asked for it nor approved the installation. Suddenly it was just there! I have always used the Google Chrome browser for years with many useful extensions. Every time I turn off my I7 quad core HP computer, I find upon rebooting that Win 10 has...

I use PEX lines extensively in my business. We shut down for the winter (including all heating) because we own and run a boat marina. We drain the water lines too. It occasionally gets exceptionally cold in Great Lake country and nearly everything, including inland bays that empty into the big...

Good forward thinking. This is exactly what happened. All of the old hot water zone pipes fractured, mostly at the many solder joints - 12 solder joints in one such room led to all 12 failing, so the resultant flooding was well distributed as was the resulting interior damage. I could give a...

Ha. Well, I've been reading these forum posts for years and have always enjoyed the discourse. Physics, mathematics and engineering have been my passion for 50 years. It is a first post for sure. The topic seemed so apt in reminding me of a personal disaster, I couldn't help myself. You might be...

When the exhaust damper control switch fails closed on your hot water boiler, the gas line solenoid loses power and in failsafe mode shuts off the flow of fuel - then the reliable gas flame goes out, the water cools sufficiently to freeze on exceptionally cold days which in turn then ruptures...