[rpoz-29]

My wife is currently driving an '06 Sonata. It has been a great car. We bought it new maintained it well, has almost 160,000 miles on it and still runs great. I just started thinking about a new car for her. I've considered another Hyundai, but like the looks of the Chevy Impala, and Equinox. Anyone have any experience with either of them? She's on the road without me from time to time going to see the grandkids, and I've begun to worry about the Hyundai on the road so much.

[GCrites80s]

Luckily, mine didn't burst this time. But I remember one time down at the farm when my dad started heating up the copper pipes with a propane torch. He wasn't really a mechanically inclined person and didn't heat the pipes evenly enough or whatever and he made a real mess in the basement. That made me nervous about just going in with a heat gun so I just generally added a lot of heat to my plumbing access (my house is on a slab). It took longer (2 days) but this way nothing blew.

[CrashTestDummy]

Luckily, mine didn't burst this time. But I remember one time down at the farm when my dad started heating up the copper pipes with a propane torch. He wasn't really a mechanically inclined person and didn't heat the pipes evenly enough or whatever and he made a real mess in the basement. That made me nervous about just going in with a heat gun so I just generally added a lot of heat to my plumbing access (my house is on a slab). It took longer (2 days) but this way nothing blew.

He must've kept the flame on a joint a bit too long. Copper should take a pretty good hit of propane before melting through. But yeah, move it back and forth, and you should be good. We have slab homes here, too, and most of the time, the main supply line goes into the house near the base of the wall, sometimes leaving a pretty good run of pipe exposed to the atmosphere. The last house we lived in I enjoyed dragging a hair dryer outside in sub-freezing weather to thaw the supply. That's even after wrapping it well.

One winter, when we got temps in the teens, and nothing above freezing for a week, I came home one afternoon to see water running out the garage. One of the pipes that ran up the garage wall into the attic space (over the unheated garage) had frozen and split. Luckily, I caught it early, and had a friend with a portable band saw, so we were able to replace the split pipe in pretty short order.