Tom Knobloch's Blog

We left our house in Wells tonight and it was windy. The entire drive up was windy. When we got to the house, it was a hurricane without the rain (it was -7 degrees). There were roof shingles everywhere. Over the master bedroom, the shingles were flapping very loudly.
It was a long, long night.
To top it all off, one section of flooring had no hot water running through it. A quick check showed 0 pressure going through that zone. It took all night to thaw it out (and a little help from pulling back the insulation and a hair dryer. I think this happened because the drastic drop in temperature and the high winds. Since the heat didn’t need to kick on for so long there wasn’t any water flow and the wind got under the sheathing and froze enough of a section to stop the flow when the heat finally turned on. I guess more insulation (now R25) and some caulking will fix it from happening again.