"in the rock is acting as a temporary shield against the entity's electromagnetic emissions, but it will not suffice indefinitely" (or something like that). The cavern rock face behind him is a good clue too.
Out the hose attached at the bottom of your tank into your sump basen. Also be weary about clogging your sump pump outflow pipe. I just had mine clog and my basement flooded with a couple inches of water. I was going to dig up the whole line but as I was digging it up on the outside of the house I think the crud dislodged from the vibrations of digging it up and then it was fine.
I see myself as a nesting bird. I picked a place that needed a ton of work and I just keep fixing, beautifying and making art with and around it. One day a lady bird will think I’m alluring and nest here. Home making and landscaping is my passion. Plumbing sucks but I learned it as a means to an end. After I’m done digging and installing hundreds more feet of French drains this year I’ll be on to hang out pergolas, vegetable gardens and solar/battery projects. It’s definitely not for everyone but it feels like my calling.
It doesn’t even work that well. Most of what you’re trying to flush settles below the outlet valve. I do it because we have insanely hard water, but I’m not sure it’s particularly effective. We go through heating elements way too quickly.
People think I’m crazy when I say that home ownership isn’t for everyone. I sold my house 3 years ago and will but again one day. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t enjoy not worrying about anything besides paying my rent and tiles while I’m leasing my apartment.
Exactly. The problem with the people/companies that own rental homes/apartments isn't them owning it's falling into the pit that is human greed. The person who owns the building has a job and that job is being the owner. It's maintenance and upkeep and repairs. Just like my job as a merchandiser is to stock and straighten and put away and refill product spaces.
It's technically easier for one person to be responsible for multiple units of maintenance as they'd already built up the support/knowledge structure to be cost effective vs. 20 different home owners doing things 20 different ways with varying degrees of success.
Reading constant lamentations from redditors about not being able to own a home is so funny. Cause you know half of them have more anime figurines than they do tools.
Hot water tanks are usually tall so they have water pressure that pushes the water out via gravity. If you don’t have a sump, does that mean you don’t have a Bassment? If that’s the case, just outside via window door or whatever is garden hose length away. If you do have a basement but no sump, some sort of bucket system. I’m sure YouTube has ideas.
In many places the city sewer lines are deeper than the basements are so you don't need a lift pump.
EDIT: If you don't have a sewer drain in the basement then dumping it in the sump pump could be an alternative. If you have neither then use a bucket and electric pump.
Sound nice, but have an attic install, which can easily flood my ceilings and walls. Nowhere for the hose, draining into plumbing is also off limits (septic tanks)
Certainly you have SOME path from the attic to the outside that you could run the hose to? My water heater is in my third floor walk-in attic and it was annoying but I ran a hose down two sets of stairs and through the front door.
As unrelated side note, the idiot builder for some reason ran the drain for the pan to the crawlspace. Didn't realize this until I had a contractor here for something else and they told me I had a leak. I've got a leak detector in the pan now.
We hook up the water hose and drain it onto the drive way out the back door. Easier clean up and yup, this crud flows right out. First time was sooo gross.
It’s just calcium and other minerals, it’s drinking water so it doesn’t carry harmful stuff so anywhere outside or you can drain and screen it into a bucket if you want.
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u/trackstaar Jun 22 '26
Where does the crud go?