It's that time of year when pipes are freezing.
There are several things you can do.
1) Make sure your heat is on. Sounds silly, but I've seen homes with the power off before.
2) Remove garden hoses from hosebibs
If your home is older than the sixties, you may not have frostfree hosebibes, those should be covered.
3) Make sure you water meter box has some sort of cover over the meter. You don't want the water meter freezing.
4) If you have plumbing on an outside wall, like a kitchen sink, keep the cabinet doors open. You will want as much warm air getting to the plumbing as possible. Closing those cabinet doors prevents the warmth of the home from getting there. Open doors.
5) If you have a frozen pipe, DO NOT use open flame. These can cause fires. The wood in homes becomes very dry and flammable. Just a little flame, and you could lose your home.
USE a hair dryer to thaw pipes.
6) If you have a faucet (s) that freezes, you may want to run a little water, that keeps the water moving and prevents freezing too.
7) If your main line has frozen, they do have pipe thawing devices that can clamp on, using electricity to run a warming current to thaw, this only works on metal pipes. If you have plastic, you will need warm air.
There are several things you can do.
1) Make sure your heat is on. Sounds silly, but I've seen homes with the power off before.
2) Remove garden hoses from hosebibs
If your home is older than the sixties, you may not have frostfree hosebibes, those should be covered.
3) Make sure you water meter box has some sort of cover over the meter. You don't want the water meter freezing.
4) If you have plumbing on an outside wall, like a kitchen sink, keep the cabinet doors open. You will want as much warm air getting to the plumbing as possible. Closing those cabinet doors prevents the warmth of the home from getting there. Open doors.
5) If you have a frozen pipe, DO NOT use open flame. These can cause fires. The wood in homes becomes very dry and flammable. Just a little flame, and you could lose your home.
USE a hair dryer to thaw pipes.
6) If you have a faucet (s) that freezes, you may want to run a little water, that keeps the water moving and prevents freezing too.
7) If your main line has frozen, they do have pipe thawing devices that can clamp on, using electricity to run a warming current to thaw, this only works on metal pipes. If you have plastic, you will need warm air.
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