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It Is Important To Know A Little Bit About Plumbing




Plumbing can really get you in a bad situation. It is your responsibility to make sure that you know at least the basics to ensure that you do not lose valuable property and end up costing yourself much more money. Use this article for the best plumbing advice.

Use the sounds you hear from your pipes to help you to determine what they problem is. Certain sounds mean the water pressure is too high. Other sounds can signify loose pipes or slight clogs from calcium or iron build up. Listening to your pipes can save you a lot of money hunting down the problem.

Look closely at your toilets several times throughout the year. Check to see if there are any leaks that you may not have noticed; you can do this by placing five or six drops of food coloring in the tank. If there is a leak, the color will seep into the bowl within half an hour. This process will help you catch a small problem before it gets too out of control.

The next time you have a clogged drain, avoid the simple solution of dumping drain-clearing chemicals into the pipes. While this method involves the least amount of effort, the more info chemicals in these liquid cleaners are destructive to your piping. Instead, consider using a little bit of elbow grease with a plunger, snake, or other device designed to clear your clog without chemicals.

To avoid having your outdoor faucets freeze up in the winter, detach all hoses before the first freeze. Also, close the shutoff valve that leads to the outdoor faucets, then turn on the outdoor faucets to let any remaining water in the lines drain. Once temperatures warm up in the spring, you can reverse the process.

Make sure you clean out overflow holes in your kitchen and bathroom sinks on a regular basis. These holes are intended to act as an emergency fail-safe to prevent spillage from a full sink, but if they are clogged they can't do their job. You can clean out an overflow hole using the same techniques you would for a clogged drain.

If your sink is letting rusty water out and it will not drain, it is mostly likely because of the biological scum and grease that is built up in the pipes. You need to have your drains professionally cleaned, allowing maximum flow through your drains. Your drains must be open completely.

While plumbing can be a very personal type of home improvement, it does share the main goal of needing to be functional in the home. As you have seen in these tips, there are various approaches, but they are all created around the idea of having a great plumbing system.



Fixing Major Plumbing Problems With A Plunger: Why The Repo Problem Is Deeper Than It Appears


A lot has been written in the news recently about the repo problem. A couple of days ago overnight funding rates spiked to 10%, which has been unheard of since the financial crisis. How can it be that with all the money being printed by global central banks, dealers are not able to finance their holdings of Treasuries overnight at reasonable rates, and a corporate tax payment date can move the Fed funds rate way beyond the Fed’s target range? Could this “latent illiquidity” be a bigger problem than it first appears? Has the Fed lost control of the one thing it can control? My view is that the repo problem is one symptom of large interest rate differentials between the US and the rest of the world, and is causing traditional buyers of US Treasuries, i.e. foreigners, to hesitate because it costs them money to do so on a currency hedged basis. (Source for all data in this paragraph: Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal).



The Fed’s solution to the whiff of illiquidity in the markets has been to flood the system with more money each morning. The way the Fed has done this is to buy $50 billion to $75 billion worth of Treasuries from dealers every day in exchange for cold hard cash. In the short term, this has driven the lending rates back into their target range. For now. Listening to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s press conference yesterday, it appeared that the Fed has declared victory and they have the situation under control. But I don’t need to remind readers that small anomalies in the basic foundation of markets, like the world’s most powerful central bank not able to control the one rate they need to control, is potentially the symptom of something more structural and consequential. Putting in short-term cash to ease the repo squeeze is like trying to unclog the plumbing of a large city using a plunger.



I believe that the real problem is that the current global financial system and its plumbing has evolved since the financial crisis in a more or less ad hoc and random basis. The Fed, ECB, BOJ and other central banks created a whole slew of acronyms to solve short term problems. This is like building the infrastructure in a house without a coordinated plan, where each room has different size pipes feeding it water, or multiple gauges of electrical wiring distributing electricity.



Let us take the plumbing analogy one step further to see why the problems we are seeing are inevitable, and why throwing more money at it is not a permanent solution. We have the Bank of Japan flooding the system with a huge pipe, taking rates more and more negative and buying up more and more of the local debt. Some of the money leaks out into the rest of world looking for yield. We have the European Central Bank also printing money and making larger and larger pipes that drive money from the core countries to the periphery. Some of this money also leaks out looking for return, since it costs money to keep money at the ECB due to the negative yields. All symptoms are that the banking system is now saturated with free money in Europe, and is beginning to refuse this liquidity spraying out of a firehose. Then we have the Fed, which went from a big pipe to a tiny little pipe as QE became quantitative tightening.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/vineerbhansali/2019/09/19/fixing-major-plumbing-problems-with-a-plunger-why-the-repo-problem-is-deeper-than-it-appears/?sh=76a5079a6773




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