Parts of the country are used to frozen or burst water pipes, like folks who live in Minnesota. In New Hampshire where I live, we only get severe freezing temperatures every few years. When this happens, plumbers work 10, 12 or more hours a day and they still can’t help everyone fast enough so please … Read More
Vacation Homes, Vacant Homes and Winter
Vacation homes are wonderful during the warm summer months but what do you do when it gets cold? Vacation and vacant homes need to have the heat kept on with someone checking the house weekly to make sure everything is fine, or you have to drain the plumbing to prevent freezing pipes and the damage … Read More
Help, I’ve Got a Frozen Water Pipe
Water freezes when the temperature falls below freezing, like making ice cubes in your freezer. When water freezes it expands,and in a pipe it may expand enough to burst the pipe depending on how much pressure builds up in the pipe. If a plumbing pipe bursts, the water escapes and goes in many directions and … Read More