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

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   Add insulation to areas of your home that may have water pipes to help maintain higher temperatures in these areas. This may not only include attics, basements and crawl spaces, but also in ...

3. How to keep your pipes from freezing during cold temperatures ...

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   Cover your pipes with insulation. That includes pipes located on outer walls, close to windows or in places without heat like basements. Close your garage doors and crawl space openings before ...

4. 10 Home Maintenance Tasks And Repairs You Should Do In Winter

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   Wrap them in tubular insulation to keep pipes from bursting. Even if you don't experience 20-degree temperatures, the insulation can help lower your utility bills. During extreme weather, you may ...

5. Trace heating - Wikipedia

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   Hot water service piping can also be traced, so that a circulating system is not needed to provide hot water at outlets. The combination of trace heating and the correct thermal insulation for the operating ambient temperature maintains a thermal balance where the heat output from the trace heating matches the heat loss from the pipe.

6. Water damage - Wikipedia

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   A tiny, 1/8-inch crack in a pipe can release up to 250 gallons of water a day. [3] According to Claims Magazine in August 2000, broken water pipes ranked second to hurricanes in terms of both the number of homes damaged and the amount of claims (on average $50,000 per insurance claim [citation needed]) costs in the US. [4]

7. 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 ...