Hi even insulating the piping is no guarantee that after prolonged outage the pipes will not freeze.
Even some areas in NYC like mine have over head power lines and we had our share of brown outs and some minor black outs.
Just make sure you are covered under your home owners policy and hope that if there is a power outage that it is not more then two days of temperatures below freezing.
Once the power goes out heat tapes are useless, electric heats are also of no use.
The majority of the freeze ups I have is lack of common sense of the building owners.
For example one family took off for the entire month of February and figured why keep the heat on if no one is home BAD MOVE as there was over $68,000 in plumbing and heating damages.
Like Bill suggested check the garage door and possibly think of weather stripping so the area does not get below 45 degrees, give yourself some room for error |
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