How to Protect Your Atlanta Home's Plumbing from the Occasional Freeze
When the thermometer dips below the freezing point, your home’s plumbing is at risk. Water can freeze within pipes, and this can lead to service interruptions or even the pipes bursting. Without the right protective measures by your HVAC professional, your plumbing remains at risk this winter.
Why Pipes Freeze
Much of the plumbing in our homes runs partially outside and through unheated crawlspaces. In older homes especially, these spaces may not be properly insulated, and the temperature inside these spaces can easily match that of the outside weather. This can cause the water inside these pipes to freeze, and while ice rapidly expands when frozen it is not the ice itself that can cause pipes to burst. Frozen sections of pipe interrupt service to your home and also allow water pressure to build to dangerous levels.
Preventing Frozen Plumbing
In order to avoid service interruptions or flood damage to your home, have your HVAC professional evaluate problem areas in your plumbing. Insulating your pipes, especially where they run outside or within unheated crawlspaces, slows the transfer of heat from the water inside them to the outside air. Also have your HVAC professional inspect your crawlspaces and consider adding or upgrading your insulation to better combat the danger of frozen pipes.
If you think that one of your home’s pipes is frozen, call an HVAC and plumbing professional right away. Allow a professional to thaw frozen piping and consider shutting off your main water supply until they arrive.
Let Estes Heating & Air Conditioning help protect your home’s plumbing this winter. Visit us online or contact us at (678) 733-9791 to either make an appointment or schedule an inspection with us today.
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