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re: Spoke to a plumber today who gave good advice on faucets for the freeze
Posted on 12/23/22 at 10:23 am to lsupride87
Posted on 12/23/22 at 10:23 am to lsupride87
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Im going to do an air and surface temp test
Air temp of kitchen-65.8
Air temp of cabinet under kitchen sink- 64.9
Surface temp of kitchen floor-59.0
Surface temp of cabinet bottom-55
Slab home built in 2005
This post was edited on 12/23/22 at 10:28 am
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Posted on 12/23/22 at 10:39 am to financetiger
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Also said you need to do this for EVERY water source/faucet in the house.
Even the tubs and showers? My house is on a slab. I ran the sink and the bathroom faucets. I covered the outdoor faucets.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 10:44 am to jojothetireguy
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So do we leave water running during the day since temps will stay below freezing?
If you have normal household activity, no need. Water in the pipes will take quite a bit of time to freeze and general use usually means there’s no problem.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 10:44 am to cypresstiger
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—what’s a basement?
It's where I keep my drum set and wet bar.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 11:00 am to Dominate308
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How long till be first frozen pipe thread is started? My guess is by 4pm today. .
Dang thread started at 9:10 am. This isn’t good.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 11:01 am to lsupride87
The Tigerdroppings page ads are on point today
This post was edited on 12/23/22 at 11:09 am
Posted on 12/23/22 at 11:02 am to habz007
Dude I kept clicking on the next page arrow like 10 times
Posted on 12/23/22 at 11:08 am to Chad504boy
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Dude I kept clicking on the next page arrow like 10 times
I cropped and edited it. You’re right, that was confusing
Posted on 12/23/22 at 11:12 am to financetiger
Posted on 12/23/22 at 11:51 am to financetiger
At what temp to stop dripping faucets? It's currently 25 here. I've got a slab foundation.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 1:06 pm to LNCHBOX
I’ve had pipes in an exterior wall freeze in house on slab.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 1:06 pm to Long Ball Larry
All y’all acting like pipes freeze at 50 degrees- it doesn’t matter if your cabinets are 20 degrees cooler than your kitchen. If it’s not 32 degrees in your cabinet, then your pipes WILL NOT FREEZE in the wall.
That being said, opening your cabinets will not save a pipe in the attic or one in the slab, so they still might freeze somewhere, but I don’t believe that opening your cabinets will make a bit of difference. To each their own, though.
That being said, opening your cabinets will not save a pipe in the attic or one in the slab, so they still might freeze somewhere, but I don’t believe that opening your cabinets will make a bit of difference. To each their own, though.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 1:22 pm to LSUGUMBO
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That being said, opening your cabinets will not save a pipe in the attic or one in the slab, so they still might freeze somewhere, but I don’t believe that opening your cabinets will make a bit of difference.
You just can't take a loss and move on can you
Posted on 12/23/22 at 1:23 pm to LSUGUMBO
Lnchbox's kitchen sink is probably on his island....
Everything is anecdotal evidence when...everyone's home is essentially custom built. The point is that you may have poor insulation behind your kitchen sink and MANY homes have spigots directly outside of their kitchen sink because a water line is already ran there so its easy to add a spigot to the outside. By opening the cabinet doors you are theoretically helping the water lines inside the walls not to freeze.
Again like the articles say, its not hurting anything and easy enough to do if its possible that it could help your situation.
Everything is anecdotal evidence when...everyone's home is essentially custom built. The point is that you may have poor insulation behind your kitchen sink and MANY homes have spigots directly outside of their kitchen sink because a water line is already ran there so its easy to add a spigot to the outside. By opening the cabinet doors you are theoretically helping the water lines inside the walls not to freeze.
Again like the articles say, its not hurting anything and easy enough to do if its possible that it could help your situation.
Posted on 12/23/22 at 2:41 pm to baldona
I've got 3 sinks on exterior walls, but outstanding analysis.
Throwing salt over my left shoulder is equally as easy and won't hurt anything. I'll add that to my hard freeze checklist.
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its not hurting anything and easy enough to do if its possible that it could help your situation.
Throwing salt over my left shoulder is equally as easy and won't hurt anything. I'll add that to my hard freeze checklist.
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