The cases are up a tic, but they are not very bad. Still the Gwinnett County Schools are mandating masks for teachers and students.
Narrative: Just woke up, the plumber is coming today.
This is a water pressure regulator. Our home is below the level at which a proper pressure is applied to the water supply. (Pressure is too high) In fact the pressure is so high it will cause the overpressure on the water heater to vent. (If you are not paying attention.) We added a tank on our water heater many years ago and now the warning is simple, you turn on the faucet and the water sprays onto the countertops.
Digging these things out requires a bit of thought, you can’t just dig it up with a shovel. I dug as deep as I thought I could go with a shovel then used the hose to loosen the dirt around the lines. (Which makes a terrible mess)
I added these blocks to get my boots out of the mud.
All done, and for the record I was correct that the regulator was bad. Like before the plumber put a regulator on the house to check the pressure and it was fine. I tried to convince him that the pressure would rise until the faucets started leaking. His response was that the water heater was expanding and raising the pressure. He recommended replacing the expansion tank. I wasn’t convinced. He asked me to turn on the water heater and he’d watch the pressure, it didn’t change much. He then removed the expansion tank and checked the bladder pressure 55psi! (Perfect) Then scratching his head he went back to check his pressure gauge and it read over 100PSI. TADA! What we both missed was that we could turn off the hot water heater and isolate the expansion tank from the cold water supply. Then any problem with the regulator would be immediately apparent.
I’ve been growing ever more concerned about privacy with the major search engines, Google Chrome browser reporting everything we do and risks from getting malware from visiting a website. (Drive By Malware)