It's just a myth that hot water freezes faster than cold water. You can do
an experiment yourself. Take a container of cold water, and an equal
container of hot water. Put them in a freezer and keep checking. You'll see
that the hot water takes a lot longer to freeze. Sometimes almost twice as
long, depending on the temperatures. The only exception would be, is if you
start with extremely hot water, a good bit will evaporate first, and
therefore you'll have a smaller amount of hot water left to freeze, which
can equal out the freezing times.



"mm" wrote in message
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On 16 Jan 2006 01:01:56 -0800, "buffalobill"
wrote:

yes. but ed's freezing warning is valid because you may have that zone
off or be on vacation when old man winter sneaks up with his wind
chill. the pipe in a seldom used stairwell radiator system next door
froze when the owner reduced the water flow thru it to save money and
damaged a lot of woodwork. i was the owner. have owned it since 1978,

So who reduced the water flow?

and i learn something new about home repair from the internet almost
every day. an old timer plumber taught me since then that the hot water
pipes freeze before the cold water pipes.

But this is why I posted. This seems strange, but I think I heard it
before. Any reason why the hot freezes first?

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me know if you have posted also.