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re: Protip: open up your faucets every few hours
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:38 pm to Tall Tiger
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:38 pm to Tall Tiger
Why not drip from the hot water faucet in the house? Will keep the lines warm.
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Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:39 pm to Tall Tiger
Golf tee to pencil size wide my brotha.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:41 pm to EFHogman
quote:
Why not drip from the hot water faucet in the house? Will keep the lines warm.
Surely you’re not serious.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:41 pm to TulaneUVA
And don’t call me Shirley
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:44 pm to Jim Rockford
My utility room is kind of on an exterior wall. Been running the dryer for a cycle every 2-3 hours. Seems to help keep it somewhat warm. In a pinch may help someone else.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:44 pm to meeple
quote:I’m going to try and make this simple.
Are these just the exterior pipes you’re all talking about in here? Only thing outside is our supply. All our other pipes are either in the attic (pex) or walls (some exterior).
Do you have somethings on the outside of your house that look like this something?
If so, when the temperature outside gets REALLY cold, the water in each of those thingys can freeze.
Freezing water expands and may make those outside thingys break open and leak ALOT of water.
This would be bad for you.
So you need to figure out a way to keep the outside thingys from freezing and breaking.
Good luck!
This post was edited on 2/14/21 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:49 pm to Jim Rockford
Why not just shut it off at the street and open and drain your faucets before you go to bed
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:49 pm to EFHogman
quote:
Why not drip from the hot water faucet in the house? Will keep the lines warm.
Should we tell him??
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:49 pm to Tall Tiger
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Here in NOLA the SWBNO website says to only run a spaghetti thin line of water from the faucet farthest from your water meter
That won’t do shite for the lines that T off of the main trunk line.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:53 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
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Should we tell him??
No, let’s let his wife’s boyfriend explain it to him.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:55 pm to Cracker
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Why not just shut it off at the street and open and drain your faucets before you go to bed
I may do this tomorrow night
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:56 pm to Tall Tiger
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Here in NOLA the SWBNO website says to only run a spaghetti thin line of water from the faucet farthest from your water meter. I've done this before and still woken up to frozen pipes in my house, although admittedly they didn't burst.
Dripping a faucet relives pressure in the line which would lessen the chance of pipes bursting of the lines freeze. Pipes can still freeze if running as you experienced.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:57 pm to SlowFlowPro
SFP is a name you can trust when it comes to the subtleties of trickling pipes.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:57 pm to Ricardo
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Also make sure any outside exposed pipes have some kind of cover.
Yeah that's like every inch for us baws with elevated houses in Louisiana
Posted on 2/14/21 at 9:58 pm to soccerfüt
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:Probably the first name an expert at trickling the exact correct amount of water would choose?
SlowFlowPro
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:18 pm to soccerfüt
Friend, I offered no advice in this thread.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:20 pm to Cracker
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Why not just shut it off at the street and open and drain your faucets before you go to bed
Unless you have a basement and can drain it from there, there will still be water in the supply lines that will freeze and burst. Granted, if they burst and the water is turned off there won’t be too much mess, but when you turn the water back on there will be.
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:21 pm to Cracker
Water in lines can still freeze
Posted on 2/14/21 at 10:24 pm to MikeBRLA
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Granted, if they burst and the water is turned off there won’t be too much mess, but when you turn the water back on there will be.
That's a fair point
ETA: nevermind misread that. My question was not applicable
This post was edited on 2/14/21 at 10:25 pm
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