It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?
It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?
We had all of our pipes replaced, and I believe in my house there’s two main ‘trunks’ (upstairs and downstairs) and as long as one faucet on each level is open enough to drip, this should (in theory) relieve any freezing pressure from the whole system.
I may have misunderstood, and the outdoor faucets are on a separate ‘trunk’. There’s the main shutoff valve in the yard owned by the county, and another one in the crawlspace owned by me.
I certainly could have this entirely wrong, but, after what happened to my neighbor, I feel better leaving a couple of taps dripping when it gets well below freezing. Which is not very often where I live.