re: Busted/Frozen Pipe Check In

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I wrap a dish rag around pipe then cover

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Yea that's great until it rains then water penetrates and gets the rag wet which freezes it then that frozen rag helps freeze your faucet faster

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Yea that's great until it rains then water penetrates and gets the rag wet which freezes it then that frozen rag helps freeze your faucet faster

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To be fair, ice can insulate. So reply we want to insulate what we don’t want to break. Sometimes even water or ice can do that.

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Pier and beam house. I

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Is that like a frame house?

Educate me.

I got one spigot that froze up so far even though it was covered. It's on an exterior wall of my garage which is uninsulated.

Heated it up with a lighter, got water flowing. Wrapped it up more and put a light on the PEX in the attic.

Wish me luck.

11 at my house last night, pier and beam 93 year old house, all good.

Frick. Went under the beach house to look. One dripping shower was frozen, cleared that, Then I saw a small stream of iceywater in the ceiling above the golf cart parking area where there should be no water. No idea what this portends, but it ain't gonna be good.

This is what makes me nervous

It was 0 here overnight Thursday night and very cold all yesterday. I'm dripping everything and doing basically everything I should be doing with a slab house and everything is doing well so far but frick me it's been cold and all my outside faucets just have the regular hose covers on them. Nothing inside them to help insulate. Pretty hard to believe that alone will keep them from freezing as cold as it is for this long but at this point I don't really want to take them off to add insulating material then lose heat

To be clear I didn't drip my outside faucets, maybe I should have but frick me there's like 9 of them between my house and shop (don't ask)

Water pressure was dropping last night in our neighborhood, but everything else seems okay at home.

Some guy on the OT said opening cabinets is like throwing salt over your left shoulder.

Woke up this morning to my hot water faucets not turning on. I assume the tankless is frozen since it’s outside the house. I regularly take cold showers, so this isn’t that big of an issue for me but my wife is going to lose it.