Space heaters (heaters from space!) and a hairdryer has us back in the 20th Century, no evidence of pipe damage
@bikepedantic ❤️ Happy and safe day.
@bikepedantic holy yikes! -8? No bursting I hope.
@geoff_green long ago, I went on a weeklong business trip with a guy, who returned home to a waterfall from a burst pipe running down his staircase
@bikepedantic oof that’s brutal. Fortunately we had our house cleaner come by the morning of our return from a trip so we had advance warning.
@bikepedantic Fingers crossed! Nobody needs burst pipes.
@bikepedantic I grew up in a house with a dirt floor cellar only accessible from outside, not a basement. Keeping a space heater by the kitchen sick and using a hair dryer under the dishwasher was a regular winter day. Do you keep water dripping from a faucet when it dips below freezing? That’s what we were always told to do.
@bikepedantic Once when I was young an external pipe burst at our next door neighbor’s house which was a bit up hill from ours. Our entire front yard was ice with a huge ice hump from his house to our yard. We ice skated on the flat section.
@bikepedantic the open tap trick didn't help?
@andr_w we are dummies and didn’t keep any taps open, because every line but this unknown one is inside conditioned space.
@bikepedantic oooop! I swear some of these houses are like surprise boxes!😭
Current theory: Main water supply line runs along the sill plate on the north-facing side of the house, behind a wall in our finished basement. Currently blasting entire area with space heaters. 🤞🤞