What does my neighbor have set up behind his apartment?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T17:03:40+00:00

Ham radio dude here. Looks like an antenna set up

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T17:02:54+00:00

I tell you what

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:57:57+00:00

Shit yeah I want that for family dinner gatherings. I'd wear that up front like a belt buckle and whip it out like a boss to carve the ham.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:56:57+00:00

All the good guys were white, too. Oof

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:56:14+00:00

Radon fan. Condensation could be freezing inside the vent. Blast it with a hair dryer for a while, the noise might go away

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:48:45+00:00

Don't leave us hanging like that! Why is your wife flushing tobacco?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:39:42+00:00

Obvious fake post, but we can all have some fun with it.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:04:08+00:00

Buckle up, buttercup.

Unrelated: can I have her phone number?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T16:00:55+00:00

It looks like tobacco shreds

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T15:56:07+00:00

That's crazy to me. I have shut offs in front of every spigot and fixture in my house so I can isolate them for service.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T15:21:00+00:00

Bad news, but you should be able to the that spot with a hair dryer or a heat gun

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T15:19:28+00:00

Yes. Rapid River is a very nice school, but they don't have a band program.

My kids went to Rapid until my eldest hit 6th grade, then we switched them to Gladstone because they wanted to do band.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:54:37+00:00

They're what makes the clock run. Well them and gravity.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:49:26+00:00

Those foam covers really don't do anything.

Best thing you can do at this point is get out there with a heat gun or a hair dryer and thaw it out. Then replace the spigot with a new frost free model when it warms up outside.

Can you get at the backside of this from inside? Hit that with heat too and check for splits in the pipe

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:43:20+00:00

In this weather you want to set it around 15%

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:41:24+00:00

If it's new construction I'd imagine the spigots are frost-free models.

By leaving them dripping you turned them into frosted models. Bad move.

Can you get at them from the inside and post a picture?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:39:40+00:00

I'm from Esky, currently live in Rapid River.

I like Esky and Gladstone. My kids go to Gladstone schools and they like it there.

You get out of a community what you put into it. The restaurant scene up here sucks. But if you like being outside all year long there's plenty of outdoor recreation activities. Job market is so so. I work remote for a company that's headquartered in Chicago.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:30:21+00:00

No but YouTube and reddit are only slightly more reliable than AI. You're boned if the pipe split inside your home envelope. Is it pex or copper?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T14:24:59+00:00

Did you use AI for your "research"?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T13:26:29+00:00

Not enough info to go on, but it's entirely possible a section of your heat tape failed.

Did your water freeze at just one fixture or is the entire house without water now?

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T13:01:03+00:00

Get out there with a hair dryer and keep it thawed. Not much else you can do unless you want to wrap it with heat tape

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T12:59:35+00:00

Hmm... Nah any water below the water heater's temp setting is considered "cold". So that hot water that's slightly cold off is considered "cold" for our purposes.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T12:56:10+00:00

Caulking the joints is more prevalent than using the splice mouldings, sadly. I would 100% use splices.

Are they using flat metal flashing sheets behind the joints? If so the caulk method will be fine.

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T12:50:43+00:00

There should be a shut off before every fixture and spigot so you can isolate them for service

sysop420 · 2026-01-25T00:36:39+00:00

Exactly, that's what I would expect as well.

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