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How much heat to keep pipes from freezing
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:03:06 -0500, Frank
wrote: On 1/9/2011 2:18 PM, Metspitzer wrote: Here in winter, most days it at least gets above freezing. (Alabama/Georgia) The nights are supposed to be down in the low 20s this week. In my sister's house, the water heater is in a utility room with no heat. The hot water pipe is in an outside wall so her hot water freezes during these cold times. I have suggested she put a 100W bulb in the overhead light and leave it on to keep the pipes from freezing. This has helped, but it still freezes if the temp stays below freezing for more than a day. She only needs enough heat in the small x small room to keep the pipe from freezing. A 100W lamp is not enough and a room heater is really too much. Can someone suggest something in between? Pipes on an outside wall are even a bad idea in a heated room. I had a similar situation where pipes in a heated room ran overhead an unheated room, a small storage area, and I also put a light bulb there to no avail and pipes froze and broke. Only good solution is to use heating tapes on pipe but access is not always good. In my case, I had pipes rerun through heated space. I am not exactly sure of the story of how it happened but the entire house is on a poured slab so nothing in the floor. It would have also been a good idea to have the WH inside somewhere out of the way. I could not believe it the first time she told me her hot water froze. |
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