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2. How homeowners can prevent pipes from freezing during winter

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   If a faucet or pipe ends up freezing inside the house, it can be thawed by using an electric hair dryer, wrapping an electric heat pad around the pipe or by soaking towels in hot water and ...

3. How to Fix Your Frozen Pipes, According to Experts - AOL

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   According to Sanders, pipes near exterior walls or your home's foundation, exposed pipes, or pipes in rarely used rooms are the most susceptible to freezing. Pipes near exterior walls or ...

4. How to prevent pipes from freezing in your home (and how to ...

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   If you find that the pipes in your home did freeze, it's important to melt the ice to prevent the pipes from bursting. Keep faucets serviced by the frozen pipes open. As the frozen pipes are ...

5. Insulate pipes to avoid leaks - Yorkshire Water - AOL

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   Yorkshire Water said: "Frozen pipes can crack, which might lead to a burst and possible flooding inside people's homes. Insulating pipes goes a long way in helping to avoid this." Cold weather ...

6. Pipe insulation - Wikipedia

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   Pipe insulation cannot prevent the freezing of standing water in pipework, but it can increase the time required for freezing to occur—thereby reducing the risk of the water in the pipes freezing. For this reason, it is recommended to insulate pipework at risk of freezing, and local water-supply regulations may require pipe insulation be ...

7. Trace heating - Wikipedia

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   This protects the pipe from freezing. [1] Electric heat tracing, heat tape or surface heating, is a system used to maintain or raise the temperature of pipes and vessels using heat tracing cables. Trace heating takes the form of an electrical heating element run in physical contact along the length of