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Out in a bit for my walk on a bright sunny day and this afternoon new hearing aides. 1pm is appointment. So later peeps.

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Are you in Pacific Time Zone? Mountain Time Zone?

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I'm still trying to figure out the physics. If you look at a flowing system, the faster the flow (smaller the diameter), the less the sideways pressure. That gives airplane wings their lift, for example. But when the system becomes static (is plugged) all points are pressurized to the same pressure, no matter what the diameter, water being incompressible. OTOH just past the exit of a pipe, the wall pressure is zero, there being no walls. If the wall pressure where the walls are infinitely large(absent) is zero (other things at that point are holding the water together so that it doesn't explode in all directions at the exit of a pipe), then by analogy, the pressure on the walls should be smaller the larger the diameter, and higher the smaller the diameter. But then, if after you expand the pipe you narrow it again, that puts a crimp in the flow, leading it would seem to a pressurization of the bulbous area. I guess maybe the end result is ... is your narrower outlet a critical orifice compared to your inlet(pump)? If so, then your system is pressurized to the same pressure all the way through, even though it's flowing. But if not, and you have a headspace in your wider area, then your system is at atmospheric.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

With all your lies, bullshit, and trolling, sociopath SLOPPY, you haven't provided one honest answer to a simple yes/ no question.

SLOPPY, has Trump EVER been CONVICTED of tax fraud in a court of law?

Yes or no will do.

Until then, you can keep slinging all the bullshit you want, you're still a sociopath, not an American, and can't comprehend English.


SLOPPY - why do you never start any threads of your own but instead spend 100% of your time crapping up everyone else's? Is it because you really have NOTHING you want to discuss and are only here to troll?

Oh, btw, I really appreciate you replying to my posts! It gives me an excuse the keep posting the facts!

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

With all your lies, bullshit, and trolling, sociopath SLOPPY, you haven't provided one honest answer to a simple yes/ no question.

SLOPPY, has Trump EVER been CONVICTED of tax fraud in a court of law?

Yes or no will do.

Until then, you can keep slinging all the bullshit you want, you're still a sociopath, not an American, and can't comprehend English.


SLOPPY - why do you never start any threads of your own but instead spend 100% of your time crapping up everyone else's? Is it because you really have NOTHING you want to discuss and are only here to troll?

Oh, btw, I really appreciate you replying to my posts! It gives me an excuse the keep posting the facts!

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

With all your lies, bullshit, and trolling, sociopath SLOPPY, you haven't provided one honest answer to a simple yes/ no question.

SLOPPY, has Trump EVER been CONVICTED of tax fraud in a court of law?

Yes or no will do.

Until then, you can keep slinging all the bullshit you want, you're still a sociopath, not an American, and can't comprehend English.


SLOPPY - why do you never start any threads of your own but instead spend 100% of your time crapping up everyone else's? Is it because you really have NOTHING you want to discuss and are only here to troll?

Oh, btw, I really appreciate you replying to my posts! It gives me an excuse the keep posting the facts!

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit on a bright sunny day. Need to make sure I put in my hearing aides. This is basically a bill pay and grocery trip today. Need something for supper but not sure what. Just finished up some chicken legs. I will think of something.

Long weekend up here and suppose to rain by Monday.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The pump has gone off two times that I know of since the laundry was finished. Once at around 1:00AM, and again at 9:00AM.

The cycles are now only 15 seconds compared to the 22 seconds before, but that's still a lot of water that wasn't being flushed out before the well was dug.

It's not going to be easy to hear it anymore. First, because it's a lot less noisy than it used to be. The relief valve is lower and not hitting an aluminum sheet I had installed along the end of the well to amplify it. And second because, at least for the next week, I'll have the window A/C on and the very loud fan pushing that cold air downstairs.

I was vaguely able to hear it at 1:00AM over the fan, but if I'm not actively listening for it I'm not going to notice it. I had turned the A/C off around 6:00AM because it got too cold so I had no problems hearing it at 9:00AM.



This is good news. Even after 5 times of forcing it out until the pump sucked air before making the alterations, it's still going off an average of at least 3 times per day, allowing water that never would have been able to make its way into the well get there now.

We're probably somewhere around 30 to 35 additional inches of water that has been removed from the well that was just sitting there before. (Or 34.9 to 40.7 gallons)

Maybe more.






It's nice knowing that as soon as water can get to it, it will be going where it needs to go instead of building up like a dam and making it go places that it shouldn't have been going.




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Out for my walk in a bit on a bright sunny day. Need to make sure I put in my hearing aides. This is basically a bill pay and grocery trip today. Need something for supper but not sure what. Just finished up some chicken legs. I will think of something.

Long weekend up here and suppose to rain by Monday.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The pump has gone off two times that I know of since the laundry was finished. Once at around 1:00AM, and again at 9:00AM.

The cycles are now only 15 seconds compared to the 22 seconds before, but that's still a lot of water that wasn't being flushed out before the well was dug.

It's not going to be easy to hear it anymore. First, because it's a lot less noisy than it used to be. The relief valve is lower and not hitting an aluminum sheet I had installed along the end of the well to amplify it. And second because, at least for the next week, I'll have the window A/C on and the very loud fan pushing that cold air downstairs.

I was vaguely able to hear it at 1:00AM over the fan, but if I'm not actively listening for it I'm not going to notice it. I had turned the A/C off around 6:00AM because it got too cold so I had no problems hearing it at 9:00AM.



This is good news. Even after 5 times of forcing it out until the pump sucked air before making the alterations, it's still going off an average of at least 3 times per day, allowing water that never would have been able to make its way into the well get there now.

We're probably somewhere around 30 to 35 additional inches of water that has been removed from the well that was just sitting there before. (Or 34.9 to 40.7 gallons)

Maybe more.


It's nice knowing that as soon as water can get to it, it will be going where it needs to go instead of building up like a dam and making it go places that it shouldn't have been going.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JSF, this just happened to be the first thing I grabbed off the internet. In our house, each bathroom (sink, shower/tub, and toilet) has its own vent stack, the kitchen (sink, dishwasher) has its own vent stack, and the laundry area - which is back to back with a bathroom, shares the bathroom vent stack.

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Plumbing Vent Distances & Routing Codes

Plumbing vent distances, routing, clearances:

This article gives recommended or allowable distances from plumbing vent to fixtures, distdances from plumbing vent to building features like chimneys, windows, roofs, walls.

This article series includes definitions of plumbing vent terms, types of plumbing vents, plumbing vent size requirements, plumbing vent clearance distances to building roof, vertical walls, nearby windows, or plumbing vent distance to chimneys. We explain how plumbing vents work on buildings, why plumbing vent piping is needed, and what happens to the building drains when the vent piping is not working.

We also provide an ARTICLE INDEX for this topic, or you can try the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need.
Plumbing Vent System Distances & Routing

Plumbing vent terminology sketch (C) Carson Dunlop Associates The basic plumbing vent terms are shown in the sketch.

In these notes, the plumbing stack vents and other sketches included below are provided courtesy of Carson Dunlop Associates

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https://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Plumbing-Vent-Distance-Codes.php

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Nice to know that the foundation is properly draining into the sump, but I think there may be more at play than the sump and pump depth.

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During a rainstorm, over three days your pump handled something in the realm of 280 CUBIC FEET of water. That's 2,100 gallons! And it doesn't make a difference whether your foundation is being properly drained, because if it were that would only make the amount of water handled by your pump go up, not reduced.

You need to make sure that your dirt is graded and tubes are properly installed to direct downspout and rainwater as far downhill from your house as you can manage.

I believe that you're working on that item: You have the materials at-hand and are prepared to regrade and install. If all of that is accomplished and your pump is STILL handling excessive amounts of water after a rainstorm, then you need to be sure that water isn't being pumped out and just cycling back to your foundation thru additional breaks in your outflow pipe, especially ones within 20 ft of your house. How you do that is up to you, but it would need to be done.

The amount of water pumped per cycle in calculated by:

= Area* height
= pi * radius squared * (hi water level- lo water level)
= 3.1415 * (9.25*9.25) * (7"?)
= cubic inches of water pumped

divide by 1,728 to get cubic feet, and multiply by however many pump cycles you think adequately represent complete drainage of your foundation after a rainstorm (4 days- worth?)

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Drainpipes are installed on the ones I knew were trouble. The other ones might not be now. All three remaining downspouts have very, very long metal extensions at the bottom (between 6 and 8 feet per).


Can't grade for keeps until I trench out the sides so I can clean and tar the foundation and give it some curing time. I think I'm going to throw a bunch of sections of leftover chicken wire down there perpendicular to the foundation while I'm at it and give the moles some blockades. They don't use the straight runs up against concrete as their hunting grounds. Those are their known fast travel runs. The hunting grounds just go all over the place and are never in straight lines.

I haven't actually seen any evidence of moles still after the 2nd time I put poison down. I've been crazy with bug poison around the foundation too, so there's that.

We're going to have to see where the next big rain takes me. I have a lot of data from the last time recorded to compare things to.

Now with the drainpipes getting the three worst downspouts all the way down the driveway and into the street, and the lowering of the sump pump, I'm hoping it's going to be night and day.






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Jack, it sounds like the pump trigger level is far more effectively placed. It's so simple in concept, but getting there was so fraught in reality!

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6 years of damage to the house. 3 1/2 miserable hours of work yesterday.

I assumed this was a problem last year, and I even mentioned it a few times in here, but I always found something else to do so I didn't have to go down there.

At least now I put an LED light down in that corner. I'm just leaving it on 24/7 so I can always look and see what the situation is without having to take a flashlight with me.

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As far as I can tell, the little underground 'lake' your house foundation was sitting in is now a number of inches lower, and now at a depth below your cellar floor. That's about as good as it gets when it comes to the sump trigger/ inlet placement.

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Another thing that's been helping though is the relative lack of rain. Until you get a heavy soaking rainstorm you won't know for sure whether or not you've fixed the foundation-water issues, or if the underground lake has simply flowed away downhill.

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Yeah. We've been blessed with an average rainfall this year for once. I'm sure another big rain is just around the corner though.

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I think Signy has good ideas. You should grade the soil around your foundation away from the house. If you can 'harden' the grade (attractively-placed flat rocks?) so that as much water as possible runs right off before it has a chance to soak in, so much the better. And you need to make sure your gutter water and sump outflow are directed as far away downhill from the house as possible.

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Does hard rocks count toward the grade? This has all been confusing to me.

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Oh, moles eat grubs. So do raccoons, skunks, and rodents. If your 'burrowing' problem is moles, getting rid of grubs is the fix. (If your 'burrowing' problem is gophers, voles, or ground squirrels, it's an entirely different story.)

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I believe I have moles and voles. The voles seem to like the hastas. Annoying, but not as big a concern to me as the moles are.

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Since grubs eat roots, once you get rid of the grass and plants immediately around your house, you'll get rid of the roots in that area, therefore the grubs in that area, and hence, the moles in that area. But most people want to get rid of moles while maintaining their lawn and its tender, tasty roots that grubs love.

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Yeah, but the moles like the foundation for their fast travel runs. They don't hunt there. That's why I finally resorted to the smoke bomb poison, because within a week after I'd cave in a tunnel it would just prop it right back up.

But if I get rid of the bugs in the vicinity, it will probably go bother my neighbors that don't do any maintenance and not be my problem anymore.

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Here are some fixes:
https://homesteadandchill.com/kill-grubs-beneficial-nematodes/
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-get-rid-of-grubs/

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Thanks. I'll check it out.

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Anyway, I see the grade around your house in steps:
collapse existing tunnels
remove vegetation
create a significant grade
harden the slope

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Sounds like you are likely pumping about 4 or 5 gallons per pump cycle, with a float range of about 5". About 8 hours between, or maybe 4 hours, if you missed hearing one at 5am.

Which is good productivity, at draining your foundation.

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Sounds like the pump is now about 7 1/2" physically lower than the past 6 years. Pumps starts about 1" below the bottom of the inlet tube, and likely stops about 6" below the inlet tube.

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Yeah. Pump sits 22" below top of well instead of only 14.25". Lowered the tether and shortened it a tad with the twist ties to make up the rest of the difference. Those measurements sound about right.

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After sucking the well dry 4 times the day before you left, the well refilled the full depth of about 13", and then went off at least once on your first night back (Wed), for 7".
Then you sucked air about 5 times on Thurs, which you figure was 15-20 inches.
So at least 35-40" have flowed into the well since you sucked air 4 times on Sunday before you took off. In a matter of 4 days.
Not including the amount that was already pumped out 4 times on Sunday.

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Yeah. Could have been more. I was gone for over 2 days. Not sure.

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Ignoring the water from laundry, some of this is likely from condensate drainage, now that your A/C is running. Condensate is heaviest the first couple times you turn on the A/C, because the humidity has built up over the winter. When it cools down again in the coming days/weeks, you'll be able to get a good idea of pump cycles intervals from just purely drainage tile flow.

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I noticed so much water had fallen from that unit on the 2nd floor last night that there was a pit in the wet dirt (it's in the hasta bed at the area twoard the fence between mine and my neighbor's house).

Not sure how much drained out of it last night, but it wasn't insignificant. That's very far away from the sump well, but maybe some of it got in there already.

Funny you mention that... I actually put a 5 gallon bucket right where it needs to be to catch all that water now. It's mostly hidden from the street by some other perennials that aren't hastas on that side.

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This is data that would be good to know, at this point in time:
Go down to it, activate it until it almost sucks air, then wait 5 or 10 minutes - or until the water stops pouring into it from the inlet tube.
Then activate the pump again, until it just starts to suck air.
Then start the timer

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We're already way past that point. water is still at the end of the inlet tube, and you can tell that there's enough that it would fall under the inlet and down the side wall. There's not even a drip right now. But if I put my fingers there it's quite wet and when I remove them there's more water where I'd displaced it.

I had to go down and clean up some stuff I'd left last night like two very heavy buckets of muck and stones, but before I did I forced what was in there out till it sucked air. After that, my dehumidifier shot some water into it. Maybe 45 minutes later I forced the pump to turn on but didn't hold it until it sucked in air and just let it back into the water. It immediately shut off. So even with the dehumidifier ejecting into it, there wasn't enough water to even keep the pump on after forcing it to stay on until it sucked in air.

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After that 2nd manual activation, what is the surface level in the well after 1 minute? You can measure from the rim.
Then, what is the level after 2 minutes following the sucking air.
Then, what is the level after 5 minutes total?
After 10 min total?
after 15 min total?

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Hey Brenda! I'm glad you had an enjoyable day!

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Well, the day managed to be filled up with non-yardwork chores.

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Hey Jack - 'grade' is the level of dirt. So rocks placed on top don't elevate the 'grade'. OTOH if you had a lot of flat rock embedded in the dirt, so the top of the rocks were at the level of the soil. and if there wasn't a lot of dirt showing in between the rocks, the rock surface would be at 'grade', and your 'grade' would be mitigated against substantial rain penetration.

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As for a leaky hose bibb, I had a leaky one but I didn't have the time to fix it when I discovered it. So I attached a very, very short length of hose, that had a really good shut-off nozzle at the end. I kept the hose bibb turned off anyway, but in effect the hose nozzle became my water shut-off against the faucet drips.

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SLOPPY - why do you never start any threads of your own but instead spend 100% of your time crapping up everyone else's? Is it because you really have NOTHING you want to discuss and are only here to troll?

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And the one thing that sticks out like a sore thumb is that Norfolk Island ("star") pine, which massively towers over one part of the yard and creates a deep dense unwelcoming shade because the branches droop so low to the ground. So one of the things I can do right away is prune them up so that ppl can walk underneath.

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Hey Jack - 'grade' is the level of dirt. So rocks placed on top don't elevate the 'grade'. OTOH if you had a lot of flat rock embedded in the dirt, so the top of the rocks were at the level of the soil. and if there wasn't a lot of dirt showing in between the rocks, the rock surface would be at 'grade', and your 'grade' would be mitigated against substantial rain penetration.

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Yeah. That's kind of what I thought, but wasn't sure.

Won't be a problem on the front/back and side of the house. But where that low slab in the sand pit for the shed at the end of the porch is, that's another issue. I do plan on putting some sort of stone on the edge of everything when I finish it off so I can mow around it.

But that would probably look dumb in the hasta beds. I'd like to get some sort of covering for the dirt (not mulch that feeds the bugs I want to keep away from the house though!). But I don't want to do that until I'm fairly certain I've taken care of the moles though because as hard as it is to deal with them now I don't even want to know what it would be like if I couldn't even see their activitiy beneath gravel.

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As for a leaky hose bibb, I had a leaky one but I didn't have the time to fix it when I discovered it. So I attached a very, very short length of hose, that had a really good shut-off nozzle at the end. I kept the hose bibb turned off anyway, but in effect the hose nozzle became my water shut-off against the faucet drips.

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The problem is it was a spigot designed for cold weather. When you take the front off with a wrench, it's got a 12" valve stem with a washer on the end of it. I was able to replace the washer (which stopped the minor drip from the spigot), but that wasn't the only problem.

I was never able to use the hose at full blast because only in one position about halfway was I able to get it so the water wouldn't leak out right behind the handle. It was a fairly big leak there if I didn't do it just right, so that hose has really not gotten a lot of use.


The 12" valve stem had cracks in it, which I tried to fix by putting apoxy on it and letting it bake in the sun all day while I worked. I don't think that was the problem though. There's a white piece that fits in right where you screw the packing nut into the pipe that was also cracked. I glued that too, but I don't think it did anything.

Long story short, the problem was much worse after I did what I did yesterday. Now I can close that off easily without any dripping without having to spend 15 minutes getting it closed "just right", but the second I turn the handle to anything beyond about 10% of full pressure, the spigot just bleeds water everywhere behind the handle now.


the plumbing supply store says that there are no universal kits. They make no promises that they could get me a replacement assembly, but if they can figure out what I need it would be a special order and take over a week to get in stock.

At this point, I probably should just cap the thing off anyhow. The hose is completely unusable now. Then one of these days I can take it up there and see if there's anything they can do.

It would be cheaper to install a whole new spigot, but I'm not sure what kind of can of worms I'd be opening by trying to take siding off that I may or may not even be able to get back on without taking a whole lot more down first.

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Just saying hey! JSF!

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JSF, this just happened to be the first thing I grabbed off the internet. In our house, each bathroom (sink, shower/tub, and toilet) has its own vent stack, the kitchen (sink, dishwasher) has its own vent stack, and the laundry area - which is back to back with a bathroom, shares the bathroom vent stack.

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Plumbing Vent Distances & Routing Codes

Plumbing vent distances, routing, clearances:

This article gives recommended or allowable distances from plumbing vent to fixtures, distdances from plumbing vent to building features like chimneys, windows, roofs, walls.

This article series includes definitions of plumbing vent terms, types of plumbing vents, plumbing vent size requirements, plumbing vent clearance distances to building roof, vertical walls, nearby windows, or plumbing vent distance to chimneys. We explain how plumbing vents work on buildings, why plumbing vent piping is needed, and what happens to the building drains when the vent piping is not working.

We also provide an ARTICLE INDEX for this topic, or you can try the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need.
Plumbing Vent System Distances & Routing

Plumbing vent terminology sketch (C) Carson Dunlop Associates The basic plumbing vent terms are shown in the sketch.

In these notes, the plumbing stack vents and other sketches included below are provided courtesy of Carson Dunlop Associates

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https://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Plumbing-Vent-Distance-Codes.php

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Interesting.
It talks about code, but not what code. An example specifies New Zealand.

It appears that I have never lived in nor owned a house with plumbing to code. One build in 1964, and 2 built in the 1910s, others I don't recall build dates.

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It talks about code, but not what code. An example specifies New Zealand.

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OK, I think I understand the problem. Is there any part of the pipe that the hose bibb is on that sticks out from the siding?

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OH! these might give you some ideas (formatted to not auto-load)

https: // youtu.be/P_DACtwy5_M
https: // youtu.be/cpeBuQEIeT8
https://www.amazon.com/Arrowhead-254CC-Compression-Hose-Bibb/dp/B00E0Q
B5VS

(At the time I had to call in a real plumber to fix mine, since the screw head that held the handle in place was completely destroyed (not by me - it came that way) and the bibb was actually soldered onto the pipe. So I couldn't disassemble it to repair it. And since there were no compression-fit hose bibbs at the time, I couldn't just replace it.)

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If you want my advice: decide to visit at least 5 different stores (different chains), including local hardware stores like Ace, Hardware Hank, True Value, etc. Each of these places have faucet types which are not compatible with any other. If you already know how yours is assembled, look at each of these for similar types of part shapes and sizes. You might need to accept alterations, like from a square shaft with a nut on it to one with screw in it.
You will likely need to just buy the whole unit, or maybe 2 different units, and disassemble them to get/use the parts you need.
This is a royal PITA but it's the only effective way I've found to get it done.

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Yes. It is a PITA. But I think I solved it for now as long as that shoddy stem valve doesn't disintegrate on me. The water was pouring out of the handle because the O ring was busted. I didn't know that yesterday because I couldn't get the rusted screw out of the handle, but I used the tool to remove stripped screws to get it out and got a replacement for that and the O ring.

The thing still is a piece of shit and probably wouldn't withstand somebody beating on it for very long, but at least I have a working hose again without any drips... at least for now.

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I might be afraid to ask, but does this outside faucet also have an inside shut-off valve? One that should be turned off each winter so that freezing pipes do not burst and let all of your fresh water supply spray out of the house?

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No. Neither of my spigots do. But they both are cold weather spigots at least. The ones where the valve stem is 12" to 14" with a washer on the end and plugs up the water on the inside of the house. As long as the hose isn't attached at the end of the season, the water outside of the house is free to leave the spigot.

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I would be willing to walk you through the process, but I don't think you'll listen.
But you should try to check if there actually is a shut-off valve to isolate your main water supply pipe from your exterior faucets - there should be. If yes, it makes your job easier, and less urgent. If not, keep in mind that is something you should plan to do. If you cap off the line indoors, then the faucet would just be a decoration until the next owner deals with it. If you are taking the faucet out anyhow, then you already know that the siding action is ahead of you, so might as well check it out.

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Yeah... I thought about this today. Capping that spigot off from the outside would not have been a good idea. Revisiting this spigot is on my to-do list in the future, but I've wasted 1 1/2 days on it now and at least it's doing what I need it to do again for the time being.




BTW... I was outside and heard the sump pump go off again around 10:00AM. Today, when I went to the hardware store I bought an outlet to socket adapter so I could put a 9watt LED bulb in the same outlet as the sump and just keep a light over it 24/7 from now on. I went down and put that in at around 4:00 and it looked to be about 2 inches from where it would empty again.

We haven't had any rain, so it is still slowly pulling in more water today.



Oh... and none of that is from the A/C yesterday. I only run it after 6:00PM and overnight, and when I went outside today there was about a gallon of water in the 5 gallon bucket. Glad I put that thing there.





ETA: Sump just went off again at 8:27PM.

So that's twice today that I know of. Not sure if it went off in between too. I'm going to guess no, but we're still looking at probably 2.5 times per day even though there's been very little rain since that big 3.6" storm.

Although I did add to it 2 nights ago with the A/C not having a bucket under it and again today while working on the spigot, but that's just incidental, really.

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Laundry done, walk in and dishes done.

Forgot to check the mail yesterday, so I did it today. Letter in box from BC Cancer and Breast Screening. It was just to inform me that my mammogram was clear (which I had sort of figured out from my doc just acknowledging that she had the report on Monday when I made an appointment. Also the tech said please come back in 2years).

So, that is one less thing on my mind.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Laundry done, walk in and dishes done.

Forgot to check the mail yesterday, so I did it today. Letter in box from BC Cancer and Breast Screening. It was just to inform me that my mammogram was clear (which I had sort of figured out from my doc just acknowledging that she had the report on Monday when I made an appointment. Also the tech said please come back in 2years).

So, that is one less thing on my mind.

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Good news, official!



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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I know dreams are boring for everyone else but the dreamer ... but I had the strangest dream last night.

I was touring SK with a bunch of SK acquaintances who were showing me the sights. And in my dream, the latest thing in SK was indoor drive-through shopping malls - genuine interior spaces, with mosaic-tiled floors, except more roomy, with lanes for cars ... where one could either stroll or drive ... complete with drive-through restaurants. We were strolling, but the occasional black-with-tinted-windows high-end sedan would mosey through. Anyway, we went to a very popular restaurant in that mall, that specialized in serving 'mystery food' - food that was one thing but made to be like another, like turkey made into beef-tasting hamburgers; but anyway, there was plenty of non-mystery white rice around. And in THAT particular mall there was some very atypical exposed piping rather high-up, which had become a 'feature', where the thing to do was the see if you could get one sneaker to wrap around it. So that section had been redesigned slightly to accommodate the sneaker-throwers. And once could purchase sneakers to try one's hand. So I was thinking - oh, this is just like a bola but with only one weight ... (which for some reason I knew how to use) ... as I was busy throwing the sneaker and watching it wrap around the pipe (impossible irl) my companions were happily chatting with each other and laughing trying to figure out how to do that ...

... where did all THAT come from?

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

I know dreams are boring for everyone else but the dreamer ... but I had the strangest dream last night.

I was touring SK with a bunch of SK acquaintances who were showing me the sights. And in my dream, the latest thing in SK was indoor drive-through shopping malls - genuine interior spaces, with mosaic-tiled floors, except more roomy, with lanes for cars ... where one could either stroll or drive ... complete with drive-through restaurants. We were strolling, but the occasional black-with-tinted-windows high-end sedan would mosey through. Anyway, we went to a very popular restaurant in that mall, that specialized in serving 'mystery food' - food that was one thing but made to be like another, like turkey made into beef-tasting hamburgers; but anyway, there was plenty of non-mystery white rice around. And in THAT particular mall there was some very atypical exposed piping rather high-up, which had become a 'feature', where the thing to do was the see if you could get one sneaker to wrap around it. So that section had been redesigned slightly to accommodate the sneaker-throwers. And once could purchase sneakers to try one's hand. So I was thinking - oh, this is just like a bola but with only one weight ... (which for some reason I knew how to use) ... as I was busy throwing the sneaker and watching it wrap around the pipe (impossible irl) my companions were happily chatting with each other and laughing trying to figure out how to do that ...

... where did all THAT come from?

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