So I bought my first house and as I start on various projects I'm coming up with questions. Generally everyone here impresses me with their practical knowledge, so figured I'd start asking "how do I" or "what do you recommend" questions here.
First question - Lower level of the house is all concrete block (a 2 car garage with a walkway to a smaller workshop area, and then separated by a concrete block wall from a one car garage.
The workshop had a bunch of shelving affixed to the wall
Just got back to the house after being away for a day, go to run some water from the kitchen faucet and got just a dribble that soon stopped.
Uh oh... Frozen pipe?
Yep. Didn't take long to find it - main water supply line, looks like it broke the solder joint on a coupling. I'll take that over a split pipe somewhere else.
Got a heat gun out and thawed it enough that I could turn the supply valve off.
Any reason why I shouldn't just replace that soldered coupling with a shar