re: Wrap Pipes?

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I remember my dad under the house Christmas eve in the early 80's trying to thaw out the pipes in our house in the garden district in BR...... we had 3 straight days where it didnt get above freezing.

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I remember that. I was about 9 or 10. The ditch down the street in Village St George froze over. I walked on it one day no big deal. Thinking I was hot shite with a buddy the next day I tried it again. I fell in about 2 feet of freezing arse water.

Got down to 24 here last night and my pier& beam house was fine. Only time I had a pipe freeze was when it was below 20 for 2 or 3 days during the superbowl here in Dallas and it was the lateral that feeds the toilet so dripping didn't help and unbeknownst to me, that short piece of lateral didn't have insulation on it like the rest of the pipes. Wrap your hose bib though. I have a freeze proof hose bib that pushes all the water out of the top 15" of pipe when you turn it off.

Only thing you really need to do is disconnect the water hose(s), if they are cheap ones, because prepare for split hoses, or hoes, whatever you prefer when you decide to use them again.

I don't run water. I just have the maintenance staff sit outside all night holding heat guns on the pipes.