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To: Neeka who wrote (171630)12/21/2008 12:54:27 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
I went down this morning to fix Stella some brekkie. Turns out the cold water in the kitchen is frozen. Unusual, since it's only 11 out, and it's been colder than that by 10 degrees in the past week. The faucet is on an outside wall. All the other water in the house is working fine. Guess I'll put aThis is new plumbing with PEX tubing, so I'm not too worried about cracked pipes.



To: Neeka who wrote (171630)12/22/2008 7:35:10 AM
From: Ken Adams  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 225578
 
Good luck with all that. Frozen pipes can be a real problem once they burst. My folks used to drain everything before closing up their place on Shadow Mountain Lake. They would add some anti-freeze to the water in the toilet bowl. With water turned completely off to the house, they never had a problem.