General’s Pipe Freezing Tool Saves Historic Landmark Without Draining Pipes
“When you have hot water gushing through the kitchen ceiling of an historic landmark in mid-January, you don’t waste time fooling around!” That’s how Bob Schneider of Schneider Plumbing & Heating described the scene at a renovated hotel in Northampton, Mass., one frigid January evening. Pipes had burst between floors, flooding food preparation areas as…