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<blockquote data-quote="John6185" data-source="post: 3156449" data-attributes="member: 25679"><p>Ah, I remember one time when I lived in Arkansas and the weather was so cold that the pipes froze up on an exterior wall supplying water to the kitchen. This was in 1984 before hair dryer has been invented-Ha! Anyway, I fired up the propane torch and presented it to the offending water lines. Well, the paper on the insulation caught fire and there I was no water-what to do? Luckily the ex was a slob and had dirty dishes in the sink and some glasses were filled with water so I doused the fire which was drafting up between the wall studs. It was a cold, cold winter and would have been a lot colder had the house burned to the ground because there was no fired department anywhere near and the roads were iced. I did get the pipes thawed out though, I guess the fire melted the ice in the lines. The well head outlet was in at a depth of a 5 gallon bucket (imagine a white 5 gallon bucket surrounding the well outlet which was at the bottom of the bucket/surface of the ground) and every time it rained, the well would fill with ground water and the water was dirty until the lines ran the dirty brown water out. All the clothes we wore were stained brown. What kind of a nut would put a well outlet 2 feet lower than the ground surface? I was a nut for buying the house in my opinion. I was much younger and stoopid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John6185, post: 3156449, member: 25679"] Ah, I remember one time when I lived in Arkansas and the weather was so cold that the pipes froze up on an exterior wall supplying water to the kitchen. This was in 1984 before hair dryer has been invented-Ha! Anyway, I fired up the propane torch and presented it to the offending water lines. Well, the paper on the insulation caught fire and there I was no water-what to do? Luckily the ex was a slob and had dirty dishes in the sink and some glasses were filled with water so I doused the fire which was drafting up between the wall studs. It was a cold, cold winter and would have been a lot colder had the house burned to the ground because there was no fired department anywhere near and the roads were iced. I did get the pipes thawed out though, I guess the fire melted the ice in the lines. The well head outlet was in at a depth of a 5 gallon bucket (imagine a white 5 gallon bucket surrounding the well outlet which was at the bottom of the bucket/surface of the ground) and every time it rained, the well would fill with ground water and the water was dirty until the lines ran the dirty brown water out. All the clothes we wore were stained brown. What kind of a nut would put a well outlet 2 feet lower than the ground surface? I was a nut for buying the house in my opinion. I was much younger and stoopid. [/QUOTE]
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