My wife assumes that by now every plumber in the world knows that air chambers don’t work.
It was a typical Saturday morning in the dead of winter. I was finishing up a project in the house, grouting the new tile in my son’s bathroom. My wife came running down the stairs, yelling my way. I wasn’t sure if she was in a state of panic, or a state of excitement. When you’re married nearly 20 years, panic and excitement seem to run together.
When Judie reached me, she exclaimed, “You just missed it. That plumber on This Old House just blew it. He was telling everybody that they need to put in air chambers to prevent water hammer. I can’t believe he would tell them such a thing.”