Cwhyu2
Consultant
It will drain the whole house.cwhyu2, I saw that drain cap. I assumed it was to drain the meter. If it's for the valve in front of the meter, do I need to consider draining the meter additionally?
It will drain the whole house.cwhyu2, I saw that drain cap. I assumed it was to drain the meter. If it's for the valve in front of the meter, do I need to consider draining the meter additionally?
I am not offended by your comments, even when I am wrong. In this case, I think I am right that the basement floor, basement wall, and incoming water pipe are sources of heat. This water meter and low pipes are well below the frost line. I think that insulating the pipes away from the cold air in the basement would be effective. This is quite different from trying to insulate a pipe going through a cold space. It would be interesting to put a remote thermometer sensor with the pipes under the insulation to check on performance. My comments in this case are not based on experience.I don't mean to start a war here, but insulation will not prevent pipes from freezing in a prolonged period of freezing weather. Insulation only slows heat transfer, it does not provide heat. See my previous rant on this. Also, that drain cap may or may not drain the whole house. If there is a low spot in the plumbing, water would remain even with that cap removed. RV anti freeze in toilets and P traps will protect them.
Yes, yes, no, no.I was just wondering, assuming I can get the water shutoff at the street, it seems to me there would still be water in the pipe going into the house between the city shutoff and up to that meter shutoff (that is in front of the meter) wouldn't it? (I mean, if you just shut off water at the street valve, that still leaves water that was already in the line still present, right?)
Is some extra step needed to insure that pipe coming out of the basement floor is drained? Does leaving that drain cap evaporate the water left in tat pipe?
I was expecting that the insulation would work, and that a visit would be involved in checking the temperature as a sanity check and to quantify the success. Many of the units intended for a home, that have a remote temperature sensor intended for outdoors are remarkably cheap.It was not cheap and required a phone to collect the temp info. via a probe, and then call another phone to display temp readings.
This is awkward, but...
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