Winterizing

The city water meter is outside. Water freezes when it gets cold. How do you insulate the pipes yet make it so that when the inspector comes to read the meter, you don't take half a day to get the insulation out of the way in order to read the meter? Our idea was to put a bean bag chair on top. One slight problem, those don't exist in Ukraine except in exclusive stores with expensive prices. What next?

We can buy panels of styrofoam. The styrofoam breaks up into beads. The beads can be put into sacks. Voila!! A substitute bean bag. . . it just takes time . . . and effort.

Here's Dave working on the project.

Here's his hands that he tried to keep in the bag in order to contain the mess.