Fridley and Columbia Heights river-terrace sumps
Twin Cities · Winter & freeze
Mississippi terrace lots. Sump after spring melt. Post-flood PEX next to original copper.
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Woodbury and Eagan builder PEX after freeze-thaw
Leaks & repipe · Twin Cities · Winter & freeze
New east and south metro houses open a crimp after the first real winter. Locate, write the number, open the smallest hole.
Burst pipe after a Minneapolis polar snap
Emergency · Winter & freeze
Shut the meter if you can. Do not stand in water near appliances. Clamp or cut and cap, then write the repair.
Winterize a vacant Minneapolis house before a January vacancy
Winter & freeze
Closing the hose-bibb cap is not a winterize. Drain, heat, or a true blowout — pick one and write it down.
Maple Grove new-construction leaks after the first hard freeze
Leaks & repipe · Twin Cities · Winter & freeze
Builder PEX fails at the first winter more often than people want to admit. We find the fitting, write the number, and do not…
Sump pumps and frozen discharge lines after a Twin Cities melt
Winter & freeze
A silent pit before a March melt is an emergency. Frozen discharge at the rim joist is as common as a dead float.
Frozen hose bibbs in Minneapolis bungalows
Winter & freeze
A split sillcock on a 1924 Longfellow rim joist is the January job. Interior stop first, then a frost-free replacement — not a hair…