Reminder: Avoid frozen and burst water pipes and huge plumbing bills.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Water service pipes are buried deeper up North.

Last edited Sat Feb 13, 2021, 07:46 PM - Edit history (1)

It's the Southerners that have to worry where pipes are only 3 or 4-ft. deep. That's who I was aiming the post toward because this Arctic blast is unusually to the South and for long enough duration for the ground to freeze quite deep.

I recall traveling to service jobs up North and had never seen homes with "skirts" around their foundations....

At least around here, that faucet you posted a photo of is called a wall hydrant because it functions just like a fire hydrant!

A lot of homes here (North-central KY) have crawl spaces like mine and are poorly insulated. Most were built before energy efficiency became a huge deal and electricity and natural gas are fairly cheap here.

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