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Thawing  Out  Water  Pipes 
lieferring  to  “Thawing  Pipe,”  by  V.  L., 
page  159,  I  have  three  line*  of  150  to  500 
ft.  which  is  mostly  2^2  ft.  down.  After 
various  .  experiences’  and  being  without 
water  in  one  or  two  places  from  one  to, 
two  months  at  a  time — an  exceedingly 
expensive  condition — I  decided  that  the 
weak  spot  was  the  terminals.  Now  if 
the  Avater  stops,  I  immediately  get  busy 
with  hot  water,  if  the  end  is  bare  and 
easily  got  at,  or  hot  water  and  a  small 
rubber  tube  which  is  inserted  in  the 
larger  metal  pipe  and  hot  water  forced 
through  it  to  the  ice.  and  every  time  in 
a  few  minutes  the  water  is  running  again. 
The  big  point  is  to  act  instantly.  We 
have  had  half  a  dozen  frozen  pipes  this 
Winter,  but  in  every  ease  but  one  it  was 
only  a  matter  of  minutes  before  the 
water  was  running ;  the  other  case  it  was 
longer,  but  \yas,  thawed  out  soon. 
Athens,  Pa.  “  -*  T.  L.  E. 
On  page  159  V.  T.  asks  how  to  thaw 
out  a  100-ft.  water  pipe  from  house  to 
barn.  We  have  thawed  out  a  75-ft.  pipe 
several  times  from  our  cellar.  We  se¬ 
cured  from  a  plumber  about  75  ft.  of 
in.  gas  pipe,  which  readily  connected 
to  the  end  of  our  spray  pump  and  hose. 
Hun  the  gas  pipe  into  the  frozen  pipe 
until  it  touches  the  ice,  then  pump  boil¬ 
ing  hot  water  against  the  ice,  and  have 
another  person,  if  possible,  keep  tiie  pipe 
pressed  hard  against  the  ice.  Have  two 
stilsou  wrenches  for  connecting  the  pipe 
securely,  and  have  as  much  Avater  near 
boiling  as  possible,  in  order  to  complete 
the  work  quickly.  I  imagine  tAvo  or 
three  hours  of  continuous  pumping  will 
thaw  out  the  pipe  if  the  Avater  is.  about 
boiling.  We  use  as  much  gas  pipe  at  a 
time  as  will  reach  nearly  across  the  cel¬ 
lar,  and  have  10  or  more  feet  of  hose 
from  it  to  the  pump.  This  will  enable 
the  man  pumping  to  work  from  one  place 
while  10  or  more  feet  of  ice  is  melted  out 
of  the  pipe. 
Begin  the  work  as  early  as  possible  in 
the  day,  in  order  to  finish  the  melting 
before  night,  as  the  pipe  Avill  doubtless 
be  frozen  solid  again  the  next  morning 
if  the  ice  is  not  all  out.  In  case  the  work- 
cannot  be  finished  in  one  operation.  Avitli- 
draw  the  gas  pipe  or  it  Avill  be  frozen 
in,  too. 
Success  depends  largely  upon  having 
the  water  hot.  and  having  enough  of  it 
to  supply  the  pump  until  the  work  is 
done.  If  a  person  could  generate  steam 
and  force  it  through  the  pipe  instead  of 
hot  Avater,  it  Avould  be  much  more  ef¬ 
ficient.  ^  C.  A.  COMFORT. 
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written  about  this.  They  all  use  essen¬ 
tially  the  same  plan — a  small  pipe  or 
rubber  tube  is  inserted  in  the  frozen  pipe, 
pushed  up  against  the  ice  and  hot  Avater 
or  steam  let  in.  There  is  unanimous  re¬ 
port  that  this  works. 
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Freezing  of  Chemical  Closet;  Damp 
Cellar 
1.  We  are  putting  in  a  chemical  toilet 
of  the  portable  sort.  Will  the  contents 
freeze  with  the  chemical  in  it?  As  the  old 
earth  toilet  is  frozen  uoav,  and  we  Avish 
to  use  that  building  for  the  chemical 
toilet,  can  you  tell  us  what  is  the  best 
thing  to  do  to  prevent  odor  from  the  old 
pit  after  it  is  floored  over?  If  possible. 
AA’e  would  rather  not  empty  it,  as  we  don’t 
expect  to  use  the  pit  again  ;  but,  of  course, 
the  odor  must  be  got  rid  of  entirely.  In 
the  pictures  of  the  chemical  toilets  they 
are  near  living  rooms.  Is  it  true  that 
there  is  nothing  disagreeable  about  them 
when  in  use?  2.  Our  house  is  on  a  hill¬ 
side — a  good  mile  of  hill  behind  us  and  a 
slope  in  front,  too.  The  cellar  is  always 
more  or  les  damp ;  there  is  a  2-ft.  natural 
rock  wall  built  inside  after  the  house  Avas 
finished,  put  up  Avith  cement.  As  the 
house  was  built  in  1866,  some  of  this  rock 
has  been  getting  loose,  and  Avoodchueks 
have  moved  some  of  it  right  away  near 
the  ground.  What  can  Ave  do  to  prevent 
the  dampness?  The  floor  is  dirt.  I  think 
the  foundations  of  the  house  are  rock, 
too,  behind  this  inner  wall,  but  I  don’t 
know  how  deep  the  foundation  is ;  it  may 
not  be  as  deep  as  the  cellar.  m.  c.  L. 
Salt  Point,  N.  Y. 
1.  The  contents  of  a  chemical  closet 
will  freeze  if  exposed  to  a  sufficiently  low 
temperature.  An  underground  tank 
should  give  little  or  no  trouble  from  that 
cause,  however.  The  contents  of  the  old 
pit  should  be  covered  with  dry  loam  or 
road  dust.  A  sufficient  eoA’ering  of  this 
will  prevent  odor,  and  in  time  destroy 
all  offensiveness  of  such  a  pit.  If 
Avell  ventilated,  particularly  by  connec¬ 
tion  with  a  used  chimney,  inside  chemical 
closets  are  not  offensive. 
_  2.  I  should  think,  from  your  descrip¬ 
tion,  that  a  drainage  ditch  paralleling  the 
rear  and  side  walls  and  opening  beueatlj 
the  front  wall  at  a  loAver  level  to  an  out¬ 
let  outside  this  Avail  would  care  for  any 
water  seeping  through  the  cellar  fioo-  from 
the  hill  in  the  rear.  Ordinary  drain  tiles 
might  be  used  in  such  a  ditch,  dug  in  the 
cellar  floor  just  inside  the  foot  of  the  cel¬ 
lar  Avail.  If  “dampness”  only  comes 
through  the  cellar  floor  and  the  walls  are 
dry,  a  well-laid  concrete  floor,  perhaps 
with  a  layer  of  tarred  paper  embedded 
in  it  and  mopned  over  Avith  hot  tar.  should 
keep  the  cellar  dry,  but  even  then  it 
would  be  Avell  to  underdrain  this  floor 
with  ditches  or  drain  tiles  haA’ing  an  out¬ 
let  at  a  loAver  level.  m.  b.  d. 
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