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re: Busted/Frozen Pipe Check In
Posted on 12/23/22 at 4:36 pm to fightin tigers
Posted on 12/23/22 at 4:36 pm to fightin tigers
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Terrible advice, no on listen to this.
Why is it terrible to cutoff water at the street, assuming he also opened all the faucets long enough to drain the lines?
I did that for a vacant house during the weeklong freeze in 2021. Turned out okay.
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Posted on 12/23/22 at 4:44 pm to JudgeHolden
For those of you living in a pier and beam, what did y'all use to cover the crawlspace?
Posted on 12/23/22 at 4:54 pm to Jenious
Pieces of plywood, tin, an old door, and a tarp. I need to find a better method cuz it looks like a junk yard.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 4:59 pm to sledgehammer
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Pieces of plywood, tin, an old door, and a tarp. I need to find a better method cuz it looks like a junk yard.
Where did you put those things? On the ground underneath your joists? Or did you use them to make a perimeter around the bottom of your house, like a trailer skirt?
Sorry, I'm confused and it could be neither of those things.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:02 pm to JudgeHolden
Had a hot water line to upstairs bathroom sink that froze. Isolated the PEX line in the attic and put a hair dryer on it for a few minutes and got it flowing. Leaving valve cracked until Sunday.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:05 pm to Jenious
My pier house sits on slab so we don't have to worry about settling. I put these 1 inch long clips into the sill and slab to hold 1/2 inch thick Styrofoam sheets between the piers. Insulates and blocks the wind. All pipes (pex) are wrapped and floor is insulated. It was 19 degrees this morning and I could walk barefoot in the house. Floor was cool.
This post was edited on 12/23/22 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:16 pm to Twenty 49
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Why is it terrible to cutoff water at the street, assuming he also opened all the faucets long enough to drain the lines?
Draining the pipes will not
Get all the water out, not saying they will bust but they definitely can
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If you do be sure and open all of the faucets , but you are still taking a chance because you will not be able to drain all the water out of The lines unless you blow the lines with an air compressor, so you will still have water in some of your lines, as long as when it freezes the ice has somewhere to go (hence leaving all the faucets open) ice will form along the line of least resistance and go long ways inside the pipe and it not burst, BUT if you have an ice plug form and trap water in a dead space then that water freezes it will burst a pipe, same for dead end connections that you forgot to leave open, toilet fill lines, ice makers, washing machines, dishwashers All of that takes prolonged super cold temps , but best to just leave hot and cold dripping, set a delay start on dishwasher, empty your ice bin and possibly put a pencil under the flapper inside the toilet tank , all of this is overkill for most modern slab houses, I have a 70 year old camp on pier and beam in S.W. MS, I will be doing all of the above, a $100 water bill is much better than a several thousand dollar plumber bill on Christmas Day Good luck
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:26 pm to ob1pimpbobi
Same for me. It was my tankless drain like that got froze up and shut off the hot water.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:32 pm to TheHarahanian
quote:Only if you blow your pipes with an air compressor… otherwise, this is a recipe for disaster.
Cut off water at the street last night. Turned it back on to get cleaned up when temps got over 32 earlier. Cut it back off now. No danger of burst pipes.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:42 pm to USMEagles
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Or did you use them to make a perimeter around the bottom of your house, like a trailer skirt?
Exactly this but it blocks the wind
Posted on 12/23/22 at 5:52 pm to Ghost of Colby
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Also the hot water demand has to reach a certain threshold before the heater will kick in. Dripping faucets won’t reach that flow demand, so it’s a good idea to turn on the hot water to sinks, tubs, showers periodically to get hot water flowing and the heater heating.
The heaters themselves have built-in freeze protection. Mine is good to -4F. You don't have to draw enough flow for it to "kick in" for it to be protected.
The pipes connected to it on the other hand, need to be protected as you would any other outdoor exposed copper.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 6:20 pm to sledgehammer
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Exactly this but it blocks the wind
Thanks. I'm on a pier-and-beam (which I prefer) but the brick goes all the way down to the ground.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 7:29 pm to AlxTgr
Update. Drove to Jackson today from CENLA. We decided to come home instead of staying over night. Came home to running hot water and no leaks. Yay! The sun must have heated the attic enough to melt whatever was frozen. Dripping hot tonight and setting a dishwasher cycle for 3ish.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 7:55 pm to JudgeHolden
I have to hand it to whomever built my house 25 years ago, each exterior faucet has its own shutoff located somewhere inside the house, well away from the exterior walls. No other house I've owned has had a separate shutoff like these.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 7:58 pm to JudgeHolden
Ran the water last night no issues, running it now, but I am concerned that I have a stub that I can not run because it was an old bathroom where the tub was removed, but water lines were left but capped off near where tub was located. I have most of the line wrapped. Some is 1/2 inch and some 3/4 line.
I am running the other faucets.
Going back to thinking I should just cut off the water and open all the faucets.
I am running the other faucets.
Going back to thinking I should just cut off the water and open all the faucets.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 8:09 pm to Tarps99
Went outside a couple of hours ago and two of my faucet covers had been stolen. Lucky the pipes weren’t frozen.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 8:09 pm to Bulletproof Lover
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Went outside a couple of hours ago and two of my faucet covers had been stolen. Lucky the pipes weren’t frozen.
Time to move
Posted on 12/23/22 at 8:12 pm to Chad504boy
Bocage Lakes.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 8:15 pm to Bulletproof Lover
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Bocage Takes.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 8:16 pm to JudgeHolden
All water working fine but for some reason left the kitchen sink trickling only on hot. Got home and cold is frozen. Pier and beam house about to attempt blow torch to defrost
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