DirtyDigz

I waited at my place until ~11 last night, then exfil'd to the GF's place so I could Sh & Sh. I came back the house this morning and found a service tag from the water company, It says that they replaced the water meter. Turned on the supply valve, heard the glorious rush of water running up the pipes, and then a couple seconds later got a nice pissing stream of water on my head - there's another "pushed apart" elbow coupling. Gotta go to work now, but I should be able to re-flow that joint tonight.

12ga slug is the more effective round for clearing 3/4" pipe. Called the water company, to my shock they're sending somebody out tonight.

What’s a curb box?

Tried the heat gun for about an hour, no joy. Dunno what else to do - can I snake through the shutoff valve?

Getting hot in this little utility room - I think I just invented the Joisey sauna.

Manually applying heat gun to concrete at base of pipe right now Valve is barely warm, but concrete almost too hot to touch

An ultra-reliable, safe and quality built harbor freight heat gun. Not a good idea, huh?

Going to set up some clamps to hold a heat gun pointed at the spot where the pipe exits the concrete and let it run overnight, but yeah, expecting this might take a couple of days. Thankfully ambient temps will help for the rest of the week

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Decided to replace the soldered coupling with a sharkbite coupling - will make for a handy drain point if I want to drain the plumbing in the future. Heated up the section of pipe going into the slab with a propane torch until all the water in it boiled out. Still no flow from water supply. Turned off the valve and called it a night. I’ll try again tonight with a heat gun directed at concrete around the pipe.

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 sharkbite coupling? Not sure what to do to get water flowing again - I'm guessing that line is frozen down below the concrete...

https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/688535.pdf I need to start charging you research fees in advance...

Yeah, I was trying to get the 36gr 525 packs. Not interested in the 38gr, but thanks.

I’m ok with this. Majority of the time it’s just me at the house, so I can space out shower/dishwasher/washer use.

Yep, already collected all of NJNG’s rebates on the gas line install/conversion from electric to gas heat.

House now has natural gas service. New carrier gas furnace installed in attic just before the cold snap. Not ideal, I know, but got quotes from 4 different companies and they all recommended attic install. So, gas line runs up to attic to feed furnace and drops down into kitchen to supply a stove, but I also had them run a gas supply line into ground level utility room. I have to get a plumber out to hook up a clothes dryer to the gas line in the utility room. Electric water heater is in the same room. Should I bite the bullet and get a gas water heater too while I'm at it? Tankless? Utility room is tiny, so I'd love to get space back by putting a tankless water heater on the wall.

5 days of uptime now. I'm going to call the problem fixed, despite all your efforts to lead me down blind alleys (just kidding, I really appreciate all the replies and advice). Only issue is that Windows 10 has now realized that something is different in the hardware with the new motherboard and wants me to activate it again - hopefully that's just an administrative thing with Microsoft, but I don't have experience doing that before. Is it a hassle?

Thanks, got an order on. EDIT - No I didn't. Got an order cancellation message after I finished checkout, no stock.

Don't mind Zeke, he's just jealous of all the fun everyone is having with their not-a-shotguns.

They won't ship to New Jersey.

Also, one other thing if you're not aware - NJ recently elected a rabid anti-2A governor who has vowed to sign any gun control bills the legislature sends him. The majority anti-2A NJ legislature had many gun control bills vetoed by the outgoing governor. We're expecting an onslaught of new gun control bills to get passed starting in the latter half of January.

You are not alone. Some NJ 2A/RKBA groups you may wish to join to fight this entrenched suppression of CCW: ANJRPC: http://www.anjrpc.org/ CNJFO: https://www.cnjfo.com/ NJ2AS (controversial group as of late): http://www.nj2as.org/ For what it's worth, I'm a member of CNJFO and NJ2AS, although I'm questioning my NJ2AS membership.

NJ currently grants CCW's in one of 3 ways: 1 - You are employed as armed Security guard or in a smiliar Security/Law Enforcement capacity 2 - You are politically connected enough to convince the police chief and judge in your jurisdiction that you have "justifiable need" 3 - You are not politically connected, have actual "justifiable need", apply, get denied, appeal to local court, get denied again, appeal to NJ supreme court, get denied again, and then sue in Federal Circuit court. Sometime after filing suit in Federal Circuit court, but before a circuit judge actually rules on the case, NJ will then issue you a CCW permit for 2 years to avoid a federal ruling on NJ's suppression of the right to bear arms. All the legal costs involved are yours to bear. 99.X% of the CCW's issued in NJ are via situations 1 or 2. Vanishingly few go through situation 3 partially or entirely. This allows NJ to claim "99% of CCW permit applications are granted".

Thanks Rosie - your efforts appreciated. (Current CNJFO member here).

Roger that - I didn't pick this HP PC at random, researched it at ipcamtalk forum - Consensus was that it was a good for up to ~16 cams with blue iris.