The weatherman said that this was it; no more warm weather after today. So I headed over to the Home Depot, got some fiberglass insulation, face masks, duct tape, and a new length of heat tape, came home, and commenced to winterizing. I put down a tarp under the rig, climbed underneath, and trimmed the [...]
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October is gone, and November has begun. The nights are dipping down to near freezing, and I’m in deep denial. I really can’t continue to drag my feet about winterizing. It needs to be done, and it needs to be done soon. I need to buy a new, shorter fresh water hose, a new length [...]
Tonight’s the first freeze of the season. Of course, I hadn’t bothered to put the heat tape on the drinking water hose, so I found myself outside after dark in the cold with a lantern, electrical tape, pipe insulation, a pair of scissors and the heat cable. Half an hour later, voila, toasty-warm water line! [...]
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I started putting the Frost King winterizing kits on my windows yesterday. I managed to get three windows done before I gave up for the day. It’s a lot of work! Basically, I have to apply double-sided tape around the edge of the window frame, cut a piece of the heat-sensitive plastic to fit the [...]
Liquid propane gas, that is, and not a minute too soon, either! I knew we were getting low on propane, but I wasn’t sure exactly how low. Our tanks don’t have a gauge on them. There’s just this little indicator that turns red when one tank is empty, and then a switch flips over and [...]
I spent Sunday trying to resolve the leaky sump cover issue. Despite my efforts last month, the sump still had a slow leak. I figured out that the problem was that it lacked an o-ring. I tried four different stores, but I couldn’t find an o-ring. Eventually, I ended up buying gasket material from Pep [...]
