Island Of Misfits

[RosterMan]

July 31st was her last post.

"Afternoon OFC. Just want to say I not feeling well I'll be off for a few days."

Got me concerned, to say the least.

Sending you Love Bro Not loving the post

 

[WeedHopper]

 

[WeedHopper]

 

[pute]

Over to check on my daughter. She had knee surgery yesterday.

 

[user 60606]

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the guberment just raised the minimum wage to $1.40 in 1970 ... and you could purchase more with that buck forty than you can with today's $16.00 an hour minimum ..

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Over to check on my daughter. She had knee surgery yesterday.

Good luck and speedy recovery to your daughter brother!

 

[boo]

Big why replace all the copper it lasts for many many years
And pex has been known to blow apart sometimes at the sharks.
Plus I bet they plastic leaks into the drinking water.
Good Luck

pex is designed to be non leaching...copper on the other hand corrodes in 20 years if you have alkaline water...look for green on the hose bibs...I used ccpvc when I built my home..

 

[WeedHopper]

 

[RosterMan]

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I would have bought 5 of each

 

[user 60606]

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when mopar was respected

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[user 60570]

Big why replace all the copper it lasts for many many years
And pex has been known to blow apart sometimes at the sharks.
Plus I bet they plastic leaks into the drinking water.
Good Luck

because the copper is shot , corrosion , fixtures are clogged up with minerals from the bad water , so on and so forth

besides , good or bad , right or wrong , this is what the customer wants

i like working with pex and the general contractor hates any kind of plumbing so he subcontracted the plumbing out to me

we will also install a whole house water filter system and reverse osmosis for the drinking and bathing water

it all adds up to work

but like I said , I enjoy working with pex so if it’s work , I still enjoy it….the money is just extra….

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

when mopar was respected

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And were kicking ass and taking names!

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

because the copper is shot , corrosion , fixtures are clogged up with minerals from the bad water , so on and so forth

besides , good or bad , right or wrong , this is what the customer wants

i like working with pex and the general contractor hates any kind of plumbing so he subcontracted the plumbing out to me

we will also install a whole house water filter system and reverse osmosis for the drinking and bathing water

it all adds up to work

but like I said , I enjoy working with pex so if it’s work , I still enjoy it….the money is just extra….

I remember Oklahoma water that built heavy calcium carbonate layers on the tea pot and piping, possibly because the huge deep aquifer there sits under an ancient seabed.

Where we lived, we had unlimited water for home and irrigation at 187 feet, as did all our neighbors for several miles around. A huge underground lake that never varied, even though the local Washita River a mile away, all but dried up every year.

I replaced all the water piping in our house and both duplexes with copper and did the work myself, so it just cost the materials, but added dielectric couplings to the copper where it attached to the iron piping to stop electrolysis, which will also take out copper piping fast.

 

[user 60570]

Good morning

when new people move into town and sign up for city water the city gives them a paper that basically says Do Not Drink Town Water

yeah , the water here has some nasties in it , I will have to find the paper but I think it is stuff like barium , strontium, and cesium

so yeah , folks around here all have some kind of filtration system or they drink bottled water

we get our drinking water from the local mortician

 

[WeedHopper]

We do use city water for cooking and such but we have filters on our sink. Our City water is safe but I prefer bottled water for drinking.
We get a letter every year showing the testing that's been done and we have pretty clean water. I mean if you bath or take a shower in it it's getting in your skin and other areas.

 

[user 60570]

it does not do any good to drink bottled water if one is showering in non filtered nasty water

the bath water needs to be good too

i like these whole house water filter systems with changeable cartridges

we are installing a closed filter that is replaced once every 6 years

like this one

 

[WeedHopper]

Yeah we had one on our showers but I have to replace them and just haven't got around to it yet.

 

[joeb631a]

Funny talking about filters ,a customer turned friend has a old house with a well and I always commented how delicious their water was .They just got a water system and they had their well watered tested and it showed very high in nitrates. cost him 3k

 

[SubmarineGirl]

it does not do any good to drink bottled water if one is showering in non filtered nasty water

the bath water needs to be good too

i like these whole house water filter systems with changeable cartridges

we are installing a closed filter that is replaced once every 6 years

like this one


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I actually have this under my sink. It provides my water for cooking and coffee and is also connected to the line to my fridge which has its own filter too that’s drinking water around here. Our water tastes pretty good and we hate plastic bottles so it works. i haven’t changed the filter in a while. Thanks for reminding me big…

 

[Unca Walt]

Well and reverse osmosis here.