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ArmoredFan t1_j1kea0q wrote

Reply to comment by lunar_unit in PSA: Always turn off your house main water supply when you go out of town in the winter by Charlesinrichmond

Isn't this bad to also do though? Often when you shut off water and drain, when it comes back on a lot of sediment stirs up and can clog various things

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lunar_unit t1_j1kh7at wrote

Where would this sediment come from?

I've never had any issues doing it.

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_j1ksr8n wrote

All water city and well usually has some gunk in it that gets stirred up. But you only need to pop the aerators and whatever filters to fix it it's not actually a big deal. Sort of thing that will take you two minutes

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_j1kso0l wrote

While true it's not a big deal you just pop the aerators off

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ArmoredFan t1_j1kvwd0 wrote

Unless you know, water runs into various other things besides a faucet.

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_j1l0ide wrote

Tell me more I've only been doing plumbing on houses for 25 odd years or so... Always more to learn

But so far the places sediment plugs up are pretty consistent and yes that would be the faucet aerators. So we bleed something without an aerator first then we pulled the aerators and bleed the faucets. It's really not a big deal except for the new grohe aerators which are complete pain if you misplace their stupid doohickey

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ArmoredFan t1_j1l2gwb wrote

Oh of course please education me more on 25 years of professional doohickey fixing.

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_j1qhl7e wrote

nope. you clearly aren't interested. And not very good at comprehension. So it's unlikely to be useful

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