<p>I don’t think any of our pipes run in outside walls. Still, tonight we will keep the sink cabinets open. All doors are open too…no rooms shut off in this cold. Brrr.</p>
<p>CNN announced that it was colder in Atlanta today, than Moscow!</p>
<p>We had a pipe that we didn’t even know existed burst a few years back in an outside wall. We’d lived in the house for 22 years at the time; apparently it was an overflow pipe for an old refrigerator hookup. We’ve had so many burst pipes over the years that I used to say we should keep the plumber on retainer. We had to cut off a line to a upstairs closet sink because it could not be weatherproofed and was so lost in the walls that it couldn’t be rerouted inside.</p>
<p>Really wanted to point out that it’s not the freeze that’s the damage danger; it’s the thaw. Our leaks have sprung a day or more after the temp went back up. So if you have potential frozen pipes that don’t go directly to a faucet, be sure your main water cutoff valve is instantly reachable and keep an eye out after it goes above freezing, especially on the next sunny day.</p>
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<p>Don’t turn down your heat at night! Keep it at 65 F or above. The only time our pipes ever froze (we live in MA and owned a badly insulated, if lovely, antique house for 12 years) was when we turned the heat down to 60 downstairs at night. The main water line coming in from our well froze. From that point on, we kept a space heater in the basement and turned it on whenever the temperature was below 20 degrees, and kept all the thermostats at 65 or above. And yes, we did eventually insulate as well as we could.</p>
<p>Years ago we lived in a house with a pipe in a crawl space that froze more than once even with faucets dripping. We ended up putting about R-60 of insulation over it, closed the vents the building department insisted on and left the water dripping when a cold snap was predicted. That finally did the trick. We have pipes in outside walls now, but have never had an issue. Our house is so leaky and there are hot steam pipes all over the place I suspect they get plenty of inside heat.</p>
<p>We leave the crawl space door open when it’s cold. There are water pipes in there.</p>
<p>We won’t be able to plow our drive until Wednesday. It’s not worth it tomorrow with the predicted wind chills. I really hope no pipes in my rental burst. Steam heat–pipes in every room. I can only imagine the mess if they did…took all the precautions but it is poorly insulated and the kitchen pipes are on an outside wall. Haven’t heard from other three so hopefully they have heat and intact pipes.</p>
<p>We normally turn our heat down to 55 or 65 at night but have been leaving it at 73 after our pipe incident just to be safe. We both woke up sweating so much this morning we felt sick to our stomachs, memory foam beds and pipe freezing weather dont mix!</p>
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<p>thanks for the tip on the crawl space. We have pipes in the crawl space under the kitchen. I sent H down to the basement to open the door to that area and we have left a space heater on as extra heat down there. Plan on running the heat all night. 50 year old houses in GA are just not built for these low temps : (</p>
<p>AAAhhhh! The pipes in my laundry room have frozen.When I turn on the washing machine no water is getting through. Checked the lines to the machine and they are fine. This happened about 6 years ago. Thought we had fixed it. But the pipes run under the crawl space through an area on slab and up to the washing machine. We left the heat on last night and the doors to the laundry room and the crawl space hoping it would be enough. Guess we need to wait till it thaws and hope the pipes haven’t burst. We have a space heater in the crawl space and a fan blowing the air in to the area. any other ideas?</p>