If You Live Where It’s COLD 🥶

JeanLouiseFinch · ‎10-03-2011

Don't forget to drip/trickle your hot and cold faucets and open the kitchen sink and bathroom vanity doors to expose your pipes to warmer room air when it gets to 20*F outdoors.

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

Glad I live in a high rise apartment complex.

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

Sweet Kitties · ‎09-03-2017

Do you live in a cold climate? I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life. If you have decent insulation there isnt a need to keep running water like that. I could possiblÿ see below zero but 20 degrees? I don't know anyone whos pipes have ever frozen up.

rockygems123 · ‎06-04-2012

@JeanLouiseFinch wrote:
Don't forget to drip/trickle your hot and cold faucets and open the kitchen sink and bathroom vanity doors to expose your pipes to warmer room air when it gets to 20*F outdoors.

@JeanLouiseFinch

Good advice and I follow it regularly.

I figure lots cheaper to drip water for the majority of our season here - in Denver Metro - for the next several months than have broken pipes.

My master bathroom has an outside wall and supposedly you also open the cabinets and drip from the farthest of your water source coming into the house.

JYWilliams · ‎03-10-2010

My Master bath and kitchen is an outside wall.bI open my cabinets and I drip mine when it's gets to 15 degrees or lower. Been here 22 years and have never had frozen pipes.

JeanLouiseFinch · ‎10-03-2011

@Sweet Kitties wrote:
Do you live in a cold climate? I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life. If you have decent insulation there isnt a need to keep running water like that. I could possiblÿ see below zero but 20 degrees? I don't know anyone whos pipes have
ever frozen up.

Yes, @Sweet Kitties, I do. DH doesn't think it's necessary unless closer to zero, but everything I've read says 20*F. (which is really colder when you calculate for the WCF). We have a bathroom sink that shares a wall with the garage. That wall is insulated but the rest of the garage is not. The kitchen sink is on the back wall that's shared with the outside. There's insulation in the walls, of course. We keep it warm in the house but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

monicakm · ‎03-16-2010

Inanimate objects aren't affected by wind chill except to get colder faster. It won't make them feel colder.

spumoni99 · ‎02-16-2019

I live in CA where it is fairly warm but when i was pregnant we had moved out of a home and bought another home, before we got it rented out the previous neighbor called to tell me water was coming out every door, pipes had broke.

Also in the new house a landscape pipe in the driveway broke.

It happens and it never gets near zero here, it was in the teens.

mrshckynut · ‎06-19-2011

@JeanLouiseFinch wrote:
Don't forget to drip/trickle your hot and cold faucets and open the kitchen sink and bathroom vanity doors to expose your pipes to warmer room air when it gets to 20*F outdoors.

@JeanLouiseFinch good information for sure
we are only concerned about pipes on exterior walls and sillcocks which we drain from indoor shutoff valves, there is only 1 indoor water source on an outside wall in our home

mrshckynut