Re: Texas folks check-in....y’all good?
Always a good idea to throw the mains during a big outage, disconnect.
Open the main breaker and let all the streetlights and neighbors power up first. That way if there are a bunch of reclosings or voltage drops you and your motors are spared the drama. It would also make it easier on the substations, if more people did it.
I’ve never experienced an overpressure on my water lines, and that would have to be a big swing to actually hurt things, but it’s not a bad idea. The sediment you might see on startup is probably not dirt getting into the lines from a break, but sediment that was already in the lines loosened by a high flow condition. But you may as well let the neighbors deal with that too, since none of that sediment will come up your lateral if there’s no flow.
A flush is a good idea, because some of what gets knocked loose could be biofilm, and it does not take long for the chlorine residual to get used up in a dead-end lateral and start growing stuff.
And yeah, a toilet with more than a 1.6-gpm flush is an egregious waste of drinking water. If you ever want to be impressed with the science behind plumbing fixtures, check out Toto on the YouTube machine. They were always a fun booth to visit back when trade shows were a thing.
Last edited by thollandpe; 02-18-2021 at 08:58 PM.
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