Leak no more......

 8:33 am - Saturday - December 27th - TWW - 38° F, humidity 74%, wind 7 mph out of the south by southwest.....heavy cloud cover today with a forecast high of 43° F.  The view this morning....

Heavy cloud cover and some minor rain

......and on this date in 2023 TLE and I were taking a 2 mile out and back walk at Glamis North Hot Springs....

.....this was our second winter working for Colorado Outback Adventures renting their Polaris RZR's.

Charles and Phyllis left for Phoenix around 8 am, and once again TLE and I were by ourselves.  I've been waiting for Charles and Phyllis to leave so I could pressure down the house water system in order to make the final repair on the leaky water pump outlet.  Once I had turned off the water pump, and closed the water inlet from the water tower I had TLE drain the pressurized water into one of the IBC totes by the greenhouse to relieve the pressure.  That took about 5 minutes, then it was time to cut the 1" pressurized line so I could remove the old PVC threaded union.....

Water is still running out of the 1" line as I get ready to install the steel replacement

The old PVC assembly, and the new galvanized steel assembly

Done!

.....I applied pipe dope to all the threaded connections, and torqued them down tight. It only took about 3 minutes beginning to end to repair the final leak. Just like the threaded PVC fitting on the 1.25" inlet, this one was also just hand tight as the Teflon tape had deteriorated resulting in the leak.  With this final fix we can now take the pump offline by disconnecting the two compression couplings.  Before I put the insulated wall back on the pump house I used Charles and Phyllis' Shop Vac to vacuum out the floor.  After working on the various leaks over the past year there was a lot of debris scattered from one end of the floor to the other....

.....maybe we can freshen up the paint a little in the near future.

Since we have 4 consecutive days starting the 27th of sub 30's temps overnight I reprogrammed the diesel heater to begin running at 1 am, and turning off at 7 am to keep things from freezing in there.  Once we get past those four days we can return to the existing 4 hour run time from 3 am to 7 am.

Later in the afternoon I reinstalled the folding cover for the Magic Chef stove top.  You will recall I had to reglue the stainless steel a few days ago....

.....TLE has acquired a lot of cast iron cookware over the past few years, and what you see in this picture is a 5 cup casserole she uses quite frequently.

And with that another TWW day came to a close.  We are going to be pretty much 'cabin bound' Saturday as it will be raining on and off most of the day, but there will be many NCAA College Football bowl games being played.....it is that time of year again.

Thanks for stopping by!