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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the temps we had, OP, there was never any risk to pipes unless you lived in a poorly-built house with pipes running along exterior walls.
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Well, some people do have poor insulation and some people do have exterior pipes, so not sure what your comment contributes?

GW hospital has had a whole slew of burst pipes, and water mains are breaking. So it's not a weird ask.

In any case, I hope everyone's home and pipes are ok.[/quote]

Your question doesn't make sense, though. If pipes were to burst, they'd have done so last week. Frozen pipes are much less worrisome and must be dealt with differently than burst pipes, which are a hassle. And water main breaks are different again - they don't have insulation at all, so it's  not surprising there were so many of them last week.

You're so ignorant about so many things that you mix up all sorts of different problems.

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[b]A lot of times burst pipes won't leak until they thaw[/b].[/quote]

This.

You don't know a pipe has frozen and/or burst until it thaws. And you may not know it's frozen, if it's a water source you don't use often.

PP sounds like a mansplaining ahole. 
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You need to check all your pipes in a cold snap if you think any of them are at risk. This is why faucets need to be very slightly open for those at risk pipes.

I know only one person who had one pipe freeze temporarily: he checked last week, found one wasn't dripping, immediately opened the faucet and ran a space heater near the pipe (which was somewhat insulated but ran too close to the roof in one spot, due to a weird addition to the main house). Within a few hours, the situation was resolved, no bursting.

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+1.

This happened to us, and we used the space heater too.[/quote]

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