Area
Plumbing in Merriam Park
Wood-frame houses where the plumbing was added after the house.
Zip code
55104
Usual arrival
About 20 minutes
The houses
Mostly 1885 to 1925
Many houses here were built before indoor plumbing was usual and had it added later, wherever it would fit. Pipes cross rooms, climb outside walls and freeze in the places you would expect.
What we see here
Supply lines in outside walls with no lagging
Bathrooms made from a bedroom, with long wastes
Outside taps with no shut-off indoors
If a pipe froze last winter, it will freeze again. We can usually move it in a day.
Como Park
