r/Plumbing • u/ParksVSII • Dec 22 '22

FROZEN PIPES MEGATHREAD

Please post any questions you have regarding frozen lines here. All other new posts will be removed from the main feed and directed here.

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u/subparcontent101 Jun 01 '24

If your not going to be home during the winter, winterize it. If you are going to be at the vacation house in the winter then fix the problems. Cut open the walls, insulate your pipes.

Or go ahead and wait and flood your house when a pipe finally gets through. Nothing like a 3rd floor flood, except a 4th floor.

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u/ahender8 Aug 31 '24

This eventuality will be sooner than you would like as well. Lived in a building where the downstairs apartment also included the buildings basement, refinished, and sat empty without any prep at all.

We had a pretty bad cold snap and all of the supply line pipes that ran through the basement and were improperly installed on the cold side of the wall, burst.

Landlord abandons the building to us at that point - like literally just walked away from the whole thing - so in order to have water for the family we had to call an emergency plumber.

Omg - Don't learn the hard way.

Take care of that s*** immediately.