Wednesday 27 February 2019

Life Underground

This week saw some of the coldest weather this winter, with temperatures of -18 and an absolutely vicious wind. At this point, I found myself deputized to conduct an inspection of the underside of a mini-home. It looked like this:
Cramped, difficult to make anything out, and everything that might be important was hidden behind a thick vapour barrier, pierced in one or two places, by disturbing apertures. I'm astonished the water feed pipe did not freeze, to say nothing of the outside tap which didn't even have a frost-proof sill cock (at home, I installed both an internal shut-off AND a  frost-proof sill cock).  We got out as quickly as we could, boarded it back up, and heaped snow up against it (poor man's insulation). This winter seems to be filled with unseasonable tasks (including repairs to the snowblower!).

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