Arthur’s house has a drain.
Meaning, there’s a valve down near the water that you can open to drain the entire house’s water system. This is useful and important for when you want to winterize the house, to prevent water from freezing in the pipes in the event the house won’t be heated for a period of time.
Over the past winter the valve apparently broke. This wasn’t a problem because there is also a valve inside the house that leads out to this valve, so we just kept that inside valve closed. But when we went to use the boat, we realized that the dock water supply is downstream from that inside-the-house valve. That meant that the only way we could get the water running on the dock was to fix this house-drain valve.
That’s what I did this morning. Arthur borrowed a PEX-pipe-fitting crimping tool from our neighbor Mike, and we’d bought a new valve at the hardware store last Thursday, so I took off the old broken valve and put on the new one.
I feel almost competent, some days.
