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Meters, copper, valves and a wall of tools.

Harlow & Pike is a sample, so these six pictures are free-licence photographs by other people, credited at the foot of the page. None of them is our own work. The seventh plate is a drawing.

Several water meters, each on its own branch of grey pipe, bolted up the outside wall of a rendered building.

Meters on a wall

Each on its own branch, added when someone needed the water measured and never moved. A cellar in Quincy grows the same way, one fitting at a time.

Photograph: Godspower Abdulahi, Unsplash

A copper tee joint where two lengths of copper pipe meet, lit against a black ground.

A copper tee

The joint that splits one supply into two. A good sweat leaves a thin bright ring of solder all the way round. A leak is a gap in that ring.

Photograph: Magda Ehlers, Pexels

A wall covered edge to edge in old hand tools, wrenches, pliers, saws and hammers, each hung on its own nail.

A wall of tools

Pipe wrenches, pliers, saws and hammers, each hung where a hand finds it. The shop pegboard is arranged the same way, with the cable and the press tool nearest the door.

Photograph: Lachlan Donald, Unsplash

A row of flanged iron valves along a header pipe in a boiler house, in low light.

Valves on a header

Iron gate valves on a boiler-house header, each one a place to stop part of the system without stopping all of it. The shut-off under your sink is the same idea, smaller.

Photograph: Peter Herrmann, Unsplash

A cast-iron radiator under a window, with a blurred wooden sill in the foreground.

A radiator on a sill

A radiator that stays cold while the rest of the house is warm is often full of air. Bleeding it is the first thing we try.

Photograph: Jonathan Cosens Photography, Unsplash

Insulated heating pipes with red handwheel valves and a round pressure gauge, fixed to a yellow wall.

Pipes and a gauge

Insulated heating pipes, handwheel valves and a pressure gauge. On a home boiler the gauge should sit in a narrow band. We read it on every visit.

Photograph: Immo Wegmann, Unsplash

The card on the jacket

A drawing, not a photograph: the card taped to a boiler after a tune-up. It lists what was changed, so the next visit starts from the same page.

Credits

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