Single control shower and avoiding frozen pipes

[Anonymous]

I know that you're supposed to leave a trickle of water coming out the faucet to keep the pipes from freezing on nights like tonight, but I'm wondering how to do this with our shower. We have a single control (instead of separate handles for hot and cold water). Last week we left a trickle of water coming out, but it was only the cold water and the hot water pipe froze. But to keep any hot water flowing we have to turn the handle a lot farther and have a lot more water flowing. Now I'm worried that it will freeze again tonight.

Any suggestions? I'm leery of leaving a whole lot of water gushing out all night both because of the waste and the fact that this tub has clogged on occasion. Don't want to risk flooding the whole downstairs while we sleep.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Umm you need to get that fixed on the pipe it isn't that cold

[Anonymous]

Can you turn on the hot water on your bathroom sink faucet instead? It should be the same hot water line to the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Just run a pencil-width stream of water from your sinks. That should be the same water line.

Running water helps relieve pressure which helps prevent the pipes from bursting. It doesn't have to be hot water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you turn on the hot water on your bathroom sink faucet instead? It should be the same hot water line to the bathroom.

I don't think it is the same line. We had hot water in the sink last time but no water in the tub.

[Anonymous]

Is there an access panel to that faucet that you can open to let warm air in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there an access panel to that faucet that you can open to let warm air in?

No, it's the worst of both worlds. It freezes easily because it's part of an addition and the pipes are under a crawl space, but covered by something and not easy to get to. Souls we just turn off the whole water line into the house overnight?