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So, woke up this morning to my water pipes frozen. I have an electric heater aimed at the main pipe area where the problem is and currently waiting for it to thaw out.
While doing this, I am on the Internet and my mother is watching Jeopardy! on television. Anyone else ever had this happen to them? Also, all you warm weather people...sit down and be quiet the Northerners are talking.
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Local Rookie Indie Dev
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Dispite it being 11 to 20 here in NJ, we've yet to deal with this. Although our water pressure did drop a noticable bit for a while.
I've never personally had to deal with the pipes freezing up. (although we did lose our water a few times but that's for another reason all together) |
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It's been fucking snowing here for days already. I've had to shovel my driveway 3 times this week and now my car's conked out due to the cold. It's colder inside my house than it is outside at times.
So yeah, fuck winter!
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Archer and Armstrong vs. the World
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When you know it's going down to the single digits you're supposed to let your tap run a little trickle overnight. That can help.
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Zettai Hero
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I know what you can do! (even though I live in North Carolina!)
Build a kotatsu! Step 1: Measure the height from the ground to six inches above your belly button while you are sitting indian style. Find a coffee table in your house (or on the internets/stores) that is at around this height, but also wider than your body and then some. Step 2. Buy either a under desk leg warmer heater (upwards from $40), an electric kotatsu heater (expensive import, unless there's a japanese furniture/appliance store nearby), or a heatlamp with bulb (pet stores sell them for lizards!). Step 3: Insulate the underside of the table with foam or proper insulation. Step 4: Using a drill, or included clamps with leg warmer/kotatsu/heatlamp, attach chosen heater to the underside of table, making sure the insulation or the device's own protections keep the heaty parts from the wooden parts of the table. Step 5: Cover the table in a thick comforter, and cover that comforter with a tray, a flat board of wood, or just leave be. You are now ready to turn on the heater. Sit under the blanket and the table, and feel the warmth. Warning: Do not leave heater on, even the Kotatsu heater, on for for longer than 30 minutes. Simply use it to warm up the pocket of air under the table and blanket, and let the blanket trap the warm air for as long as possible. If, while sitting under the table physical contact is made with heating unit, consider using a higher table, or adjusting the placement of the unit. Do not plug heating unit into an extension cord or a power strip- these can cook your wires and any other appliances plugged into said power strip/extension cord. Also, for frozen pipes, buy Easy Heat pipe heating cables, you wrap them around your indoor pipes and plug them in at an outlet in winter and they keep your pipes warm. I have family up north and and they have these and cables running under their tiled floor so they don't freeze their feet off when they go barefoot to the bathroom.
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Archer and Armstrong vs. the World
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Oh, yeah, heating tape. I should have mentioned that. Every trailer home in the country has those around the water pipe where it comes out of the ground to where the pipe enters the insulation.
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The Straightest Shota
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Back when I lived in a trailer out in the country we had heat tape on our pipes, and insulation. Still had to crawl under the trailer about twice a year, on average, with a blow dryer to unfreeze the pipes.
Good times.
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It got so fucking cold this week, Celsius met Fahrenheit.
No really, it was -40 (at worst, with windchill), for either one. That was a windy day too. I didn't bother going outside. I still froze. |
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