Gotta careful with frozen water pipes!!

Jiro said:
yike! just wrap insulation on pipes! it's inexpensive but time consuming

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there is one more way. i used to live in a mobile home that was raised. only the underpining between the water pipe leading in and the outside. we used electric heat tape. had a receptable placed under there and just wrap the heat tape around the exposed pipe and keep plugged in during the winter. kinda pricey but cheaper than calling a plumber and easier than crawling under there to repair it when its 20 degrees outside.

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Find Heat Tape and other Pipe Insulation at Aubuchon Hardware
 
VamPyroX said:
Ever see that episode of The Simpsons where Bart decided to play a prank by shaking up a can of beer and leaving it for Homer to drink? Only... Bart does it in the most extreme manner. ;)

(Season 4 Episode 18 - So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show)
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EVERY TIME I go to Home Depot or Lowe's and a paint can is being mixed.... That's EXACTLY what I think of. :lol: Oh that Bart...
 
Daredevel7 said:
EVERY TIME I go to Home Depot or Lowe's and a paint can is being mixed.... That's EXACTLY what I think of. :lol: Oh that Bart...
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Same here... I think of that episode every time I walk by the paint shaker. ;)
 
it was happened to my house last Sat, no water in my basement while no hot water in kitchen and upstairs, so landlord arrived to check it up and said in my basement need to be staying high heat till back to normal and leave high heat till tempature back to normal like 30s to 40s then can turn to med heat, ughhh I really hate high heat!!!
 
Jiro said:
yike! just wrap insulation on pipes! it's inexpensive but time consuming

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Yes, wrap insulation on all drain pipes are MUST accord household insurance law. The wrap insulation on all drain pipes was being done that's time they built our house in 1988.

Phillip, I'm sorry about your friend. I would recommend your friend to get wrap insuslation on all the drain pipes to prevent the damage from freeze, etc. It cost not much... It's better than expensive repair on freeze.
 
Jiro said:
very smart mother she is! to keep the pipe running with little drip.
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Yeah! She is very smart!!!! Her house power and pipes getting better. My apt need to use a little water drip because of warning sign for water pipes freeze zone. The weather will get better from last weeks ago.
 
Its not liquid that expands, it is once become solid it expands, but while H2O is in pipe and freezes, the water will start to expand once it freezes. Whats worse is that the metal will SHRINK as it gets colder!, then bam! exploded or cracked.

That is why hair dryers with low settings works, it allows metal pipe to expand once again allow creeping water pass though solid frozen water resulting thawing them later on. Verses using blowtorch which would cause small area of metal part to over-expand and can explode.

VamPyroX said:
There are other liquids that expand when they're cold too. :)
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ncff07 said:
there is one more way. i used to live in a mobile home that was raised. only the underpining between the water pipe leading in and the outside. we used electric heat tape. had a receptable placed under there and just wrap the heat tape around the exposed pipe and keep plugged in during the winter. kinda pricey but cheaper than calling a plumber and easier than crawling under there to repair it when its 20 degrees outside.

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Find Heat Tape and other Pipe Insulation at Aubuchon Hardware
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i highly do not recommend anything electrical placed on pipes as there is a risk of electrocution. water + electricity = zapo!
 
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