Just keeps getting better and better

[kaethe]

So. I go haul, like, 20 cases of soda and water into the house, probably causing my back permanent injury, and in the process managed to impale a Dr. Pepper can on my mailbox. No, really. DP everywhere on my porch. And the best part? When I went to turn on the hose to clean it off, that faucet is apparently frozen. Which means *it* will

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[lucylooo]

I live in the GWN and my outside faucet freezes every winter and has yet to explode, if that makes you feel any better. Never done anything with it (although I do pretty much never remember to bring my hose indoors when it gets cold, so I need a new one of those every year).

[kaethe]

That's good to know. I left the faucet slightly on in the hopes that once water starts moving again, there won't be enough pressure to burst it. I have no idea if that will actually help.

[kaytee4ever]

No idea but newspaper is a good insulator. I know in some places they wrap newspaper around the hot water heater to insulate it. What if you try wrapping newspaper around the parts of the faucet/exposed plumbing?

[kaethe]

Someone at work suggested that too. I'm waiting until it thaws, though.

[silk_knickers]

In some cold places, they'll shut off the water supply to the outside faucet (in the house somewhere; my dad always did it, so I don't actually know where the valve was, but presumably in the basement near the outside wall), then open the tap on the outside faucet to let whatever's left in the pipe drain out, and then shut the tap again. A mildly-annoying annual ritual.

But generally it's gotta be pretty darn cold to freeze the pipes to the bursting point, I think.

[kaethe]

I hope so. I'm so not good at this home maintenance stuff.