Blowing Lines
When using air to blow out the lines my furthest water source is our outside kitchen. Is it best to just open the cold side and get all the water out then close and move to the next closest and open ...
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Back when I wintered in Detroit the first year I used Pink Stuff in the lines. Mell of a hess getting rid of all of it, ....Second year I wised up
Hooked up the compressor and blew the lines.. Several times waiting a few minutes between blows.. Used pinks in drains and traps only.. Emptied the water pump inlet strain and let it run dry for a minute.. Drained the water heater.
(NOTE: you should do most all this if using pink stoff too save for the blowing of lines)
Next spring.. Not only did I not have a hassle getting rid of the pink stuff... There was no pink stuff to get rid of save in the drains and traps, And well.. getting rid of that is.... NOT a problem.. (just flush).
Sanatized as I had to do the first spring, and all was good.
Now some folsk yammer about the frew drops of watter remaining after a blow out..
First: I did multiple blows. waiting between blows.. This gets rid of most of those.
Second: Even if some water does drip down to a low spot.. PEX survives freezing well, what breaks are the elbows and connectors as they are made of a hard plastic with no give... And the low spots (not the lowest which is a drain but the kind of spots where water might collect) on my rig are all PEX, nice freezable PEX.
Secodn, not enough water to fill a line remains, and if the air in the lines ever freezes... I won't be worried about it, not one bit.. For that matter I wont' be alive to worry about it (I breath that air too and frozen air is kind of hard to breathe).
Hooked up the compressor and blew the lines.. Several times waiting a few minutes between blows.. Used pinks in drains and traps only.. Emptied the water pump inlet strain and let it run dry for a minute.. Drained the water heater.
(NOTE: you should do most all this if using pink stoff too save for the blowing of lines)
Next spring.. Not only did I not have a hassle getting rid of the pink stuff... There was no pink stuff to get rid of save in the drains and traps, And well.. getting rid of that is.... NOT a problem.. (just flush).
Sanatized as I had to do the first spring, and all was good.
Now some folsk yammer about the frew drops of watter remaining after a blow out..
First: I did multiple blows. waiting between blows.. This gets rid of most of those.
Second: Even if some water does drip down to a low spot.. PEX survives freezing well, what breaks are the elbows and connectors as they are made of a hard plastic with no give... And the low spots (not the lowest which is a drain but the kind of spots where water might collect) on my rig are all PEX, nice freezable PEX.
Secodn, not enough water to fill a line remains, and if the air in the lines ever freezes... I won't be worried about it, not one bit.. For that matter I wont' be alive to worry about it (I breath that air too and frozen air is kind of hard to breathe).
