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dr0wningggg t1_j6qm5i3 wrote

Reply to comment by Majestic-Feedback541 in Cold weather reminders: water will freeze when left outside and the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit by pig_penis

this is my first winter living away from my parents (i’m 19) and all this shit has me paranoid. i’ve lived here my whole life but now that i’m somewhat responsible for my housing i’m stressed out lmaoo

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PGids t1_j6rft4x wrote

Keep your heat turned on and crack your faucets, you’ll be aiight

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curtludwig t1_j6s1nd6 wrote

The vast majority of people won't even need to do that. Growing up in Falmouth we never had the water freeze. Not once.

If you were in the County it'd be different. I guess that if you were Bangor or south, particularly along the coast you'd never need to worry about it.

Windchill doesn't make your pipes freeze, absolute temperature does.

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eljefino t1_j6u224d wrote

Yeah cracking faucets is something to do somewhere like Texas where the houses are on slabs with the pipes outside the walls and not engineered for the occasional winter blast.

If you specifically have that one bitchy faucet that needs running, by all means, go for it, but doing it in a traditional Maine house that used to see winters like this all the time is actually inviting trouble. Like what if your septic line freezes but your well doesn't? It could happen.

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curtludwig t1_j6u5q6j wrote

The septic pipes won't freeze for the same reason the well pipes don't freeze they're below the frost line, or should be anyway.

A traditional Maine home will often have frozen pipes, especially in the north. I say that because those houses were built "Good enough" for most of the time, when real cold sets in they're not good enough because there really isn't enough insulation.

Any house built in the last 30 years ought to have no problem with -20F. My parent's house was built in the early '70s and I don't remember one incident of freezing pipes ever...

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ecco-domenica t1_j6t1ja7 wrote

On the contrary, in York County houses down here tend to be not built for cold so a lot of places' pipes freeze every time there's a cold snap. I grew up in Caribou and our pipes never froze. I find people are less used to it down here and many have no idea what to do about it.

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curtludwig t1_j6t9ny5 wrote

>York County houses down here tend to be built poorly

FTFY

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