Winter's coming

[Frank S]

Well not yet anyway but even though many of us are enjoying these nice warm near 100°f days of summer all too soon it will be time for the pipes to freeze.
The hose bib on my pump house was the major source of having frozen water last winter.
The pump house is insulated somewhat at least enough that the 600 gallon storage did not freeze during our 12 days of winter last year.
But the hose bib froze solid and the Pex piping behind it froze right behind it shutting off the water to the house until I thawed it with a propane heater. I decided to install a frost free hose bib to slow or hopefully prevent a reoccurrence of last winter