Before the First Hard Freeze, We Check These Pipes (Or Pay a Plumber in January)

🔗 At our age, 65°F indoors can already be dangerous. What doctors say, and how to heat for less anyway: https://larshalvorsen.com Every fall I go down into the crawl space with a flashlight before the first hard freeze, because the pipe almost never splits where the ice sits. There are six checks I go through in this house, from the garden hose still screwed onto the spigot to the barn line that split on me one January, down at the elbow, far from the ice. One of these checks costs about two cents a night to run. I'll show you where to look and why it holds. Fifty-one winters in the same Norwegian farmhouse, so you keep the heat in without hiring anybody. Subscribe, and I'll see you in the next one. #frozenpipes #winterprep #diyplumbing #homemaintenance #hardfreeze