I have heat tape and insulation around my water pipe. Turns out the GFI was tripped so it froze, reset it and five minutes later water was running again. Was a close call for sure.
I hate those damn GFIs, I always forget which covers what area. And when my Christmas lights out front go out, I have to climb over a bunch of shit in my garage to press the little button on a socket that has no business being where it is, nor any relevance to its existence. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this house was built with spit and glue in 2000 and doesn't hold a candle to a 1940s ranch house.
You could change out the GFI to a regular receptacle. But you'll most likely have to buy a few more GFIs to cover what the one in the garage was protecting. If your fridge is GFI protected, change that out! You don't want to come home with a fridge full of spoiled food. It's pretty easy to change receptacles, a few minutes at YouTube University will make you a master of receptacle changeouts!
leave it running a bit too and open the doors under the sink to keep it warmer inside
Also dress in layers it will keep you warmer traps body heat inside, and if it gets to a point where you have no real heat source only for outside of course. There are lots of ways to make rocket stoves.
Thanks my friend. My house is well insulated and I have a home backup generator---hurricane prevention---The water froze in my outside tankless water heater. I spent an hour with a heat gun thawing it out. I did as you suggested and left the water dripping last night. No problem this am! :-)
That's awesome to hear my house is well insulated as well we have a heater in the basement that is put there to keep the pipes warm when it's this cold I turn it on when it's in the below zero range shut it off when it hits above zero again. it's an old trick our water used to freeze up all the time when I was a kid if it got really really cold.
No generator here, I have been shopping for one, need to figure out how to hook it up to my furnace if need be. But thankfully there hasn't been a power outage in my town since I moved here over 30 yrs ago except briefly this summer when a superstorm came through and tore down power lines. and a few trees n shingles.
I spent the morning in a -4 degree wind chill trying to unfreeze my water line---in MISSISSIPPI!!!!! We are not use to this! Come on Global Warming!
Yep. We spent all afternoon doing the same here.
I have heat tape and insulation around my water pipe. Turns out the GFI was tripped so it froze, reset it and five minutes later water was running again. Was a close call for sure.
I hate those damn GFIs, I always forget which covers what area. And when my Christmas lights out front go out, I have to climb over a bunch of shit in my garage to press the little button on a socket that has no business being where it is, nor any relevance to its existence. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this house was built with spit and glue in 2000 and doesn't hold a candle to a 1940s ranch house.
You could change out the GFI to a regular receptacle. But you'll most likely have to buy a few more GFIs to cover what the one in the garage was protecting. If your fridge is GFI protected, change that out! You don't want to come home with a fridge full of spoiled food. It's pretty easy to change receptacles, a few minutes at YouTube University will make you a master of receptacle changeouts!
leave it running a bit too and open the doors under the sink to keep it warmer inside
Also dress in layers it will keep you warmer traps body heat inside, and if it gets to a point where you have no real heat source only for outside of course. There are lots of ways to make rocket stoves.
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Thanks my friend. My house is well insulated and I have a home backup generator---hurricane prevention---The water froze in my outside tankless water heater. I spent an hour with a heat gun thawing it out. I did as you suggested and left the water dripping last night. No problem this am! :-)
That's awesome to hear my house is well insulated as well we have a heater in the basement that is put there to keep the pipes warm when it's this cold I turn it on when it's in the below zero range shut it off when it hits above zero again. it's an old trick our water used to freeze up all the time when I was a kid if it got really really cold.
No generator here, I have been shopping for one, need to figure out how to hook it up to my furnace if need be. But thankfully there hasn't been a power outage in my town since I moved here over 30 yrs ago except briefly this summer when a superstorm came through and tore down power lines. and a few trees n shingles.