That was me this morning. I knew my house has an issue with pipes freezing, I knew it was going down to -30c (-22f) with a -40 windchill last night here, yet for some boneheaded reason I never bothered to put a space heater in the area where the pipes freeze.
S0 I got to swear at myself this morning for a half hour while I was running around with a propane torch in my basement to thaw the lines out so I could flush the toilet.
One good thing with being an idiot is you get to learn how to fix things at least, so there’s that…
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That was me this morning. I knew my house has an issue with pipes freezing, I knew it was going down to -30c (-22f) with a -40 windchill last night here, yet for some boneheaded reason I never bothered to put a space heater in the area where the pipes freeze.
S0 I got to swear at myself this morning for a half hour while I was running around with a propane torch in my basement to thaw the lines out so I could flush the toilet.
One good thing with being an idiot is you get to learn how to fix things at least, so there’s that…
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So, you didn’t even have the faucet doing a drip?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Nope. It was business as usual, until it wasn’t.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Silly donkey.