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New member Username: Square_eyes
Canada
Post Number: 9
Registered: May-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 12:45 pm: |
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As a public service announcement, listen up.
I have recently spent 2 years busting my butt completely gutting & renovating our home and was 95% finished. My last project was to create a new, dedicated HT room downstairs. It was a completely unfinished room, so this involved everything from new walls, drywall, insulation, wiring, conduit, lighting, crown & baseboards, primer/paint etc. I was just getting ready to have the carpet installed.
On June 9th, I was out for several hours and returned home to find the house half destroyed by water from a plumbing failure in an upstairs bathroom. This of course included a portion of the new HT room. After the amount of work involved to the house, this has been devastating. Insured? Yes, but enormously disruptive just the same........new hardwood floors ruined too.
My point is this: Look in your bathroom and kitchen cabinets, and at your toilet supply lines. If you have any of those grey plastic supply pipes that run up from the shut-off to the tap, get rid of them! I have since learned that these fail on a regular basis, and a BRAIDED STEEL line is the only way to go. It's cheap insurance, and I would have paid many times their price had I known.
Maybe the Panasonic AE700 will be a little cheaper when I make the delayed purchase. Sigh........ |
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Gold Member Username: Jan_b_vigne
Dallas,
TX
Post Number: 4190
Registered: May-04
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 01:48 pm: |
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Carl - The first shop where I sold HiFi had an ownwer that can do you one better. He lived above the store and decided to put in a swimming pool on the roof above the speaker demonstration room. Did it leak? What do you think?
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New member Username: Tubetone
St. Louis ,
MO
USA
Post Number: 8
Registered: Jun-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 06:50 pm: |
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Jan,
Let me quess, was that Hi Fi-Fo Fum in St. Louis?
Email me back at rjohns@thesoundroom.com I'm sure you have some stories |
Silver Member Username: Daedilus
Post Number: 126
Registered: Jun-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 08:50 pm: |
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aye, steel braid clad water lines are available on the market now, rubber hose encased in a steel braid, as the name suggests.
Prevents any buldge ruptures or physical damage to the water lines. totaly worth the 20 bucks a hose.
If you rent, take them with you.
Oh... subnote, if you rent or live in a high rise complex YOU yes YOU are responsible for damage for all tenants from ruptures of water lines outside the walls of your dwelling.
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New member Username: Square_eyes
Canada
Post Number: 10
Registered: May-05
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| Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 10:29 am: |
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The line itself rarely, if ever fails, and in regard to the grey plastic line that I was refering to, it's bomb-proof it's so tuff, but it's the retarded compression fitting on the end that is the problem. (thanks a lot designers and CSA for approving these time bombs - I hope your homes get destroyed by water).
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Silver Member Username: Joe_c
Oakwood,
Ga
Post Number: 461
Registered: Mar-05
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| Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 04:50 pm: |
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Carl, if you get in touch with the hba in your area you should get reimbursed for the damage. Those pipes were used in my parents neighborhood and their neighbor's went kaput and the company who made the pipes paid for replacement and damage. FYI |
Bronze Member Username: Square_eyes
Canada
Post Number: 11
Registered: May-05
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| Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 08:30 pm: |
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hba??? whassat? I'm in Canada and my home insurance policy covers everything. |
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