Cold Weather Pipe Advice Needed . . . .

[Autumn999]

For some reason, the advice on dripping faucets during freezing weather is never elaborated on in articles. Do you have to drip all the faucets? Or only one? Or only one upstairs and one downstairs? If you are using water all the time during the freeze times, do you have to drip them at all? For example, I am a night person who is up all night at times washing clothes, running the dishwasher, turning on and off sink faucets. Would I still have to still drip a faucet if running water all the time like that? We don't have continuous freezes in my area, so pipes are not insulated and such.

P.S. Sorry this is in the wrong category. I never noticed categories when posting, and can't see any way to delete it and move it to the right category.

 

[Reach4]

You would need water to be slowly flowing through each pipe that might freeze.

If the heat is on, those pipes would usually be in an outside wall, and the kitchen might be the only place that would occur. So you would want a bit of hot and a bit of cold dripping.

Another way to prevent freezing at the kitchen, if the cold is not intense, is to leave the doors at the kitchen sink cabinet open, so room heat can better reach those pipes.

 

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[Fitter30]

Moving or still water freeze at the same temp. Dripping faucet is mixing warmer water with the colder water raising it temp above freezing.