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Anonymous wrote:Don't just shut off the outside water -- drain the valves (both outside by disconnecting the hose and draining all the left over water in the pipes AND release the drain valves indoors to drain all existing water inside on those outside lines). This is coming from a Canadian who is used to -30 degree weather and never had a frozen pipe. Also -- watch for all the WSSC burst water lines and hope you don't live downstream from any….

I don't understand this - where are the drain valves indoors? I don't think I have ever seen any. Surely if you shut off the valve to the outside pipe and then turn the outside tap on you should be OK, no? [/quote]

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing maybe there's an extra valve that people build in in really cold climates, that allows you to drain the water from the inside pipe, above the shutoff valve?  That's what Canadian PP seems to describe.  In my house here there isn't any such thing.  There's a shut-off valve on the inside pipe, about 2 feet below where the pipe goes through the wall to the outside faucet.  Gravity working as it does, the 2 feet of water above the shut-off is stuck there in the pipe (unless one were to try to siphon or suck it out through the open outside faucet--I've never heard of anyone doing such a thing and I'm not about to try).

I guess I just have to live with the risk for those 2 feet of pipe (x2 outside faucets--they're both the same way).  They're on the inside of the uninsulated outside wall (but each in a heated utility room).  It's always been OK.  [/quote]

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