How to keep frozen pipes from happening again:<\/strong><\/h3>\n#1 Make sure that all piping in attics and crawl spaces are covered with insulation. I can not stress this enough. This is where\u00a0I saw most of\u00a0 the\u00a0burst pipes\u00a0I repaired. Most attics have blown in insulation and it settles over time exposing pipes. Exposed pipes freeze and burst! This could happen to you!<\/p>\n
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#2 In older homes that contain copper or galvanized piping consider replacing with PEX piping. PEX piping may <\/em>freeze but it resists breakage. In the 100\u2019s of calls I received, not one break\u00a0was PEX related. However, I did cut out 100\u2019s of feet of\u00a0copper and galvanized\u00a0pipe and fittings.<\/p>\n\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the past few months I have received literally 100\u2019s of phone calls from people with frozen pipes and burst pipes, most have asked \u201cWhat can\u00a0I do to get my pipes to thaw out and\u00a0what can\u00a0I do\u00a0to keep this from happening again?\u201d\u00a0I have given them all\u00a0the same advice.\u00a0 Most of the advice\u00a0I have already posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumbingolympia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}