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re: How are homes in north built different regarding water freezing?
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:51 pm to Chad504boy
Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:51 pm to Chad504boy
A lot of raised old houses in South Louisiana that still have plaster walls don’t have insulation in their outside walls. Before they had central air and heat the air would come up from the crawl space up and through the walls so they didn’t insulate those outside walls. Some of those walls especially in two story houses have plumbing running through those same walls.
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Posted on 2/15/21 at 10:57 pm to Chad504boy
frost proof faucet
frost proof outdoor faucets have the valve set on the basement side of the foundation, so no water is standing in the pipe in a non-insulated area
frost proof outdoor faucets have the valve set on the basement side of the foundation, so no water is standing in the pipe in a non-insulated area
Posted on 2/15/21 at 11:11 pm to Centinel
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Basements
We don’t have a basement. Plenty of houses up here don’t have basements either
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insulation
This is always true, at least in terms of better insulated/thicker pipes. We don’t skimp on the plumbing. And for thinner irrigation lines (18-24” underground so definitely capable of freezing) we blow those out to clear out the remaining water in October
Posted on 2/16/21 at 3:23 am to YipSkiddlyDooo
As others have said plumbing runs thru basement and then thru middle of house. Nothing.on exterior walls. Lots of times forced air and plumbing are in same area too. Keeps things warm.
Outside lines get drained in nov.
Outside lines get drained in nov.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 7:23 am to OntarioTiger
What about mobile homes? Millions of them in cold climates.
Posted on 2/16/21 at 8:17 am to Chad504boy
I took an architecture class in High School (suburbs of Chicago) and the mission was to design a house. Being in high school, a lot of things I was taught "had" to be done a certain way - I didn't realize until I bought a house in the South that this was just a Northern thing.
Mainly no water on an exterior wall. Try to minimize piping by having one designated interior water wall. Increase bathrooms primarily by being creative with that one wall (i.e. upstairs hallway, upstairs master, downstairs, and basement bathrooms all use that same wall).
Some other things are energy efficiencies, it would be dumb to put a water heater in the attic of a house in Wisconsin - you'd blow through a shiiteload of energy keeping the tank warm in the winter. It's smart to do it in the South where attics are 100+ deg 7 months of the year.
Mainly no water on an exterior wall. Try to minimize piping by having one designated interior water wall. Increase bathrooms primarily by being creative with that one wall (i.e. upstairs hallway, upstairs master, downstairs, and basement bathrooms all use that same wall).
Some other things are energy efficiencies, it would be dumb to put a water heater in the attic of a house in Wisconsin - you'd blow through a shiiteload of energy keeping the tank warm in the winter. It's smart to do it in the South where attics are 100+ deg 7 months of the year.
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