Jesse Lane

Here’s my submissions for a plumbing Sand badge

Six tiny list bits:
Repair a hose.   https://permies.com/p/2620438
Unclog a drain with zip tool.  https://permies.com/p/2829297
Repair a toilet seat/lid.  https://permies.com/p/2836715
Clean/Decalcify a shower head.  https://permies.com/p/3743929
Put collected water through a Berkey filter.  https://permies.com/p/3738784
Perform a water quality test.  https://permies.com/p/3750980

One Big list bit:
Replace or install a frost free spigot.  https://permies.com/p/3746353

 I have municipal water and this is the results of the water coming out of my tap.
 According to the test I used everything was in the OK range. I did notice that some of the test results changed overtime so I had to retest to write down the proper results in the proper timeframe. The 48 hour bacteria test was also negative.

 Here is a link to the test I used.  
https://a.co/d/02z3CG4c

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
  - a link to the water quality test kit or service you are using
  - a picture of the water quality test kit, or what will be sent to the lab
  - a picture of the water source you are testing (cistern?  well head? stream or spring?)
  - a picture of the water sample
  - a picture of the results of your water quality test
  - a description of what your water quality test results mean

I had a frost free spigot that needed to be replaced.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- install or replace a frost free spigot
- repairing a spigot is a different BB

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
  - the current spigot or location you'll put one
  - midway through the job
  - the installed spigot

I needed an outlet to plug in a camera.


To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - install new or replace existing AC outlet

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
  - a picture of the current location that needs a new outlet, or a socket failing a socket test
  - a picture of the installation/repair midway through
  - a picture of the finished installation with the socket tester showing a proper installation

To complete this BB minimum requirements are:

       - The vehicle starts
       - The battery begins to charge(voltage changes)
       - The voltage is shown before and after the jump start (with a voltage meter)

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must post pictures of the following:

       - Picture showing the dead battery voltage with a volt meter
       - Picture of the vehicles with jumper cables connected (or mostly connected if it's safer/easier to get the picture that way)
       - Picture of the dead vehicle running (please show the instrument cluster)
       - Picture of the new voltage of the battery on the running vehicle

I decalcified a showerhead by soaking it in vinegar and scrubbing it with a brush.

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must show proof of the following (as pictures or a video < 2 mins):
- Dirty/calcified shower head operating poorly
- Cleaning/decalcifying the shower head
- Newly cleaned/decalcified shower head operating properly
- A description of the method for how the shower head was cleaned/decalcified

Today it was warm enough to get some snow melt off the roof. I was collecting drips from the gutter since the gutters are still full of ice.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- put collected water through a berkey filter

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
  - a before picture of the water being collected
  - a picture of the collected water going into the berkey filter
  - an after picture of the collected water coming out of the Berkey filter

Here’s my making lavender blossom infusion submission. I steeped my dried lavender blossoms in hot water for 15 minutes.

To document this BB, post pictures or a 2-minute video depicting the following:
- Your lavender flowers being harvested
- Your flowers in solution with a description of any other ingredients you used (if you used any)
- Your completed infusion in its permanent, labelled container/jar

 While visiting my parents on Saturday, my mom came up from the basement said that there’s a puddle of water by the furnace so I went down to check it out. And elbow on the return line for their hot water baseboard heat was leaking. Fortunately, a few months before we had pulled a similar furnace out of my brother’s cabin and stored in the barn, so I was able to pull some parts off of it to fix the proble. After I had it fixed, had the water pumped back in, and the lines bled I turned on the valve to the main supply line and it snapped off. There was a shark bite on that line close by so I was able to pull enough slack to get it hooked up without the valve since I didn’t have a part.  (Replacing that valve two days later I put under another BB.)
After running the pumps, water stars spraying out of a half inch copper pipe so I scoured the barn and outdoor sheds looking for anything I can use to fix it. Fortunately, I found a half inch shark bite and installed that temporarily.  It was 1 AM Sunday morning when I got the heat back on.
 Always have tools and parts on hand, cause you never know when you’re gonna be fixing things in the middle of the night when nothing is opened to buy parts.

Saturday evening I was at my parents and their heat system sprung a leak.  I shut off the water supply and fixed the leak.  When I turned the water back on the valve snapped off.   I did a temporary fix since it was 11 o’clock at night and installed the new PEX valve on Monday.