Sensus iPERL water meter breaks when it drops to -30-40°F. Its crazy my city uses them... CHEAP FIX скачать в хорошем качестве

Sensus iPERL water meter breaks when it drops to -30-40°F. Its crazy my city uses them... CHEAP FIX

Hello I live in a pretty cold area and the water meter that the city uses is only rated to -30°F and it regularily gets colder than that overnight at this time of the year which i think is stupid lol. The city public works guy installed one for us last year because the property manager went crazy when she found out i had done my own before. I literally took the broken one off and brought it into city hall and handed them the 165-170$ for a new one and that was that. 2 years later the Public works guy is installing a new one and he forgot to put the styrofoam shell on it after the install and it dropped to -50°F that night and our water froze within 24 hours of having it replaced. So i went out shut off the water from the city pulled the meter off and let it dry, sprayed the inside channel with some flex seal spray and let it cure over the weekend. It turned out to work pretty well and only fails if the water freezes and that would damage the meter no matter what anyways so instead of spending 350$ at least on meters and possibly having a huge water bill due to excess consumption i spent ~12$ last winter and have fixed the issue that way i think 4 times so far on this meter lol. Our water is filtered just an fyi but the water never smelled like spray even right after putting it back on. Although it does say that it has not been tested on potable water supplies and may not be compatible with some plastics, vinyls, or rubbers but it has worked each time and it sure beats paying like we have before(one month we recieved a 570$ water bill plus the cost of a new meter so around 750$ all because a chunk of ice fell off the roof knocking out heat tape/anti freeze cable out of the exterior outlet...