Put your stash up where the dog can't get to it and bring them inside.

I'm going to stuff foam, bubble wrap, or something as an insulator into my water meter hole. I'm also going to put a tub or trash can with a cinder block on top of that.

Our waterlines run down the north wall of our house. We leave the cabinet under the sink open and put a small heater in the laundry room. everything is left dripping.

Will a block heater take care of all that stuff if I plug it in overnight? I'm down south where it don't get cold like this but every 6 years or so. So I never had to use it.

Danny............if your water is trickling good inside that water meter is going to run and wont freeze up............At least I would think so.


Dripping just wont do good enough in the cold that's coming/duration under freezing. Let that faucet run pretty good. Both sides.

I don't think a block heater will help much with the fuel tank....

good advice!

Heat gun did the trick on my side, pool is filling now and will get it all the way to the brim before I take the hose inside the shop to use later in the weekend.

I thought the heater trick mentioned earlier was overkill until I looked at my pool temp. I know flowing water doesn't freeze, but 34 degrees was a little too close for comfort. I now have my pool heater set at 40 and will leave it on till Tuesday/Wednesday.

Going to be an expensive weekend for electricity, gas, and water!

x2- gonna fill mine with bubble-wrap today - since it's below grade if it gets wet it'll still work better than rags, and I've got the bubble wrap laying around.

gonna do the same on my house shut-off valve - it too is about 8" down, but for -2 degrees I ain't gonna take a chance.

Alright..

I have 8 exterior hose bibs.

5 are just PVC coming straight up from the ground. On 2 of those I have foam insulation pipe covers around the actual pipe with a cover over the top. On the other 3 I wrapped a towel around the base, cover over the top and put a 5 gallon bucket over that.

The other three are in boxes below ground level, I stuffed those with a towel and closed up the box.

My main water line into the house has an access hatch and is about 4 feet deep. I stuffed a towel down around that and it is covered also.

My main water shutoff and meter are about a 1/4 mile down at the hwy. I haven't messed with it.

I have two water heaters in the attic that are in insulated closets. My joists (not rafters) are foam insulated and should be covering all the plumbing I believe. I will probably go check on that.

My attic only has vented soffits no other vents

I've left two sinks dripping hot and 2 dripping cold.

Anything else I can do??

. Preventative measures are never as expensive as CORRECTIVE ones. Price a plumber or electrician these days.

drink bourbon

I've decided instead of foam or bubble wrap and tub I'm going to put a styrofoam ice chest over it with a brick. And I figure we'll run water as well. Heck, I go to the bathroom so many times a night I don't think it could freeze if I left the lid off the meter cover. I drink water non-stop all day and pay for it all night.

If you lose power and cannot keep heat going in your home, it's best to drain the pipes since they depend on radiant heat from inside the house to help keep them from freezing. Even with heat going in your home, pipes that run over unheated garages and through outside garage walls demand extra attention. I have an outside faucet that's near the end of a exterior garage wall that I always have to watch closely during severe cold snaps.

If you leave outside faucets dripping, be sure to keep an eye on them since water pressure will likely drop as more people follow that same course and when breaks occur elsewhere in the system.

Nailed it.

Even if you have a main water supply valve on the outside of your home, you always want to keep around the house the tool needed to turn the water off at the meter. These can be impossible to open and close without the tool with a long stem and handles so that you use both hands and arms to work the valve. These can be picked up at Home Depot, Lowe's, and other places for about $10. Look at orientation of the lock out holes on the valve lever and base to determine which way you need to turn to open and close it. While I've never seen one of these that wasn't left to open, right to close, the orientation of yourself to the value will determine which direction is correct to open and close. Checking the position of the lock out holes is always best. The holes being aligned with one another so that a lock can be placed through them is the closed position.

One other thing with pools, If you have skimmers, a main drain in the bottom of the pool and separate valves for all three, you could always turn off the valves to the skimmers and run off the main pool drain. That way it doesn't matter what the water level is around your skimmers.

Channel lock pliers also work.

If there's enough space in the meter box to get to the meter valve and apply the necessary torque. That's why the tool works best since it gives you complete freedom with both hands, arms, and if necessary, your entire body to turn the valve lever.

I use a 6" crescent.

I wrapped some pipes and moved plants for an elderly neighbor down the road, she gave me a big lemon off her little tree... About softball size. Maybe bigger.

Yep. You can pay them now or pay them later.

Whiskey , don’t forget to have extra whiskey.

I have a neighbor that just had his house replumbed through the attic because it kept splitting below the slab. The forecast now is bouncing around in the single digits for tuesday night.

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