re: Water dripping strategy - Official Discussion

A freezemiser on every outdoor faucet ... they automatically drip and drip more the colder it gets. I have six and no problems.

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Where on my wife is there a delay button?

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Usually a few inches south of the navel.

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If you live on a slab there is zero reason to drip pipes unless it’ll be below freezing for 3+ days straight.

To each their own tho.

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In Houston, I've only ever had pipes freeze in pier & beam houses where there's not much you can do for pipes running under the house.

But older folks seem to love the ritual of preparing for the dreaded freeze. There's no arguing with my parents, other than to say I don't think it's going to get too bad.

Opening the cabinets beneath the sink supposedly helps too, but I don't know if it really matters either.

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The one farthest from the source to keep pressure off the pipes.

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I’m puzzled by this. I get doing the one farthest from the source, although it’s impossible to know which is farthest unless you saw the house roughed in. But you are not keeping any pressure off the pipes, nor would you want to. If you drip a faucet you will actually get some pressure drop, but it would be very slight. Like if you had 40 PSIG at the water meter you might have 39.9 PSIG at your dripping faucet.

Tankless water heater?

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I thought it was pencil lead, like much less drip?

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And hearing the air escape.

I have my outdoor kitchen, indoor kitchen, and 1 bathroom dripping at the moment. Everything is covered outside so no exposed pipe but I also know the pipe is only 6-10 inches underground.

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Tankless water heater?

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No.

Two electric 50 gallon tanks.

You have a recirculating pump with a return loop

Or a piggy back through the cold

I live in a slab house but had a wrapped outdoor spigot freeze in 2017 when it dropped to the high teens. It melted later in the day. What is the potential harm in that if I had multiple indoor faucets trickling?