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Scene: Sat. Jan 30th we have planned a baptismal service for our fledgling church in Estonia. Due to the global warming advocates all flying their respective jumbo jets to Europe and renting all the limos in the surrounding five countries to haul their sorry carcasses to the meetings, the temps have dropped to below -25° for the past month. This has caused a considerable cooling trend in our duplex that has a shared sauna area. The sauna has a large tub that we use for a baptistery. Unfortunately the exterior walls were so cold that the water instantly turned to ice while we were cleaning up. How are we going to get the water in the baptistery up to temp? We decided to purchase some portable water heaters and put them into the water.
Friday night we decided we'd better start filling the bathtub with cold water to let it sit and warm up a bit before and also put heaters in it to start the warm up process. (We don't have enough hot water supply to fill it up with hot, so we heat it up and then add some hot to it at the end.) Another problem was that the drain was put into the tub 1/2 way under the actual wall so there really is not a good and effective means to plug the drain! I had to go down every few hours to try and keep the water level up and maintain a vigil on the heaters that have a tendency to go into meltdown sometimes (they are old Soviet built: think Chernobyl). My last visit before trying to get some sleep was 1:30 AM, then I got back up at 4 a.m. to check again. I was getting a little worried that it wasn't going to heat all that water.
When I went down at 7 a.m. it all seems very warm and steamy-Thank you Lord!! (I found out that only the top layer was warm!) I had also been able to finally get the leak down to a trickle, so the heated water wasn't all wasting away down the drain! The temperature outside right now has warmed up and is running close to 0 degrees F so that helps. There is still the problem that the water is ice cold on the bottom and hot around the heaters. I needed a way to "mix" it. Hmmm...
What do I have that would move that volume efficiently??
Enter Mike's Siberian Ice-dive, duct tape modified FF Pro XXXL to the rescue!!
Just a "dab" (a stroke or two) will do ya!
Friday night we decided we'd better start filling the bathtub with cold water to let it sit and warm up a bit before and also put heaters in it to start the warm up process. (We don't have enough hot water supply to fill it up with hot, so we heat it up and then add some hot to it at the end.) Another problem was that the drain was put into the tub 1/2 way under the actual wall so there really is not a good and effective means to plug the drain! I had to go down every few hours to try and keep the water level up and maintain a vigil on the heaters that have a tendency to go into meltdown sometimes (they are old Soviet built: think Chernobyl). My last visit before trying to get some sleep was 1:30 AM, then I got back up at 4 a.m. to check again. I was getting a little worried that it wasn't going to heat all that water.
When I went down at 7 a.m. it all seems very warm and steamy-Thank you Lord!! (I found out that only the top layer was warm!) I had also been able to finally get the leak down to a trickle, so the heated water wasn't all wasting away down the drain! The temperature outside right now has warmed up and is running close to 0 degrees F so that helps. There is still the problem that the water is ice cold on the bottom and hot around the heaters. I needed a way to "mix" it. Hmmm...
What do I have that would move that volume efficiently??
Enter Mike's Siberian Ice-dive, duct tape modified FF Pro XXXL to the rescue!!
Just a "dab" (a stroke or two) will do ya!
