Water pipe help

[brokeno]

Drip your faucets especially the hot don't know why but the hot freezes first that what we did when I was a kid.

[Buck hunter332]

Leave it dripping or a slow stream

[RMW]

Let all faucets flow hot and cold a steady stream not a drip. I do this on inside and outside my house. I run my irrigation sprinklers on till it gets above freezing. I’ve never wrapped a pipe

[drop dead fred]

Is it practical to temporarily seal up the crawl space with plastic sheeting? 100’ roles of 6’ wide sheeting run about $30. Between the heated house above and the ground temp you will help your cause if you keep the flow of cold air out of the crawl space.

I did this i wrapped the house in 1/2” osb


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[S-3 Ranch]

Is it practical to temporarily seal up the crawl space with plastic sheeting? 100’ roles of 6’ wide sheeting run about $30. Between the heated house above and the ground temp you will help your cause if you keep the flow of cold air out of the crawl space.

I found a giant roll of R-12 insulation, cut and stuffed in the outside vents, had no idea a 4000 sf house had so many vents or that the dogs like to take a dump by the vents
Hopefully the R-12 and the central air can keep it warm enough? 7 days of 20’s h - 2* L I still don’t have much confidence

[drop dead fred]

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[S-3 Ranch]

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yours looks 100% better than mine

[drop dead fred]

Yours looks 100% better than mine

I’m not holding much confidence in it 6° that’s a whole nother level


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Shane]

I’m not holding much confidence in it 6° that’s a whole nother level


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you can get a space heater or two under there, it should help a lot. The closer you can get them to the water lines, the better, obviously.

[drop dead fred]

If you can get a space heater or two under there, it should help a lot. The closer you can get them to the water lines, the better, obviously.

I’m scared I’d start a fire and insurance would blame me


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[justindfw]

I just wrapped r12 insulation around already wrapped pipes on mine. It was warmer under the house then outside. I'm gonna keep the faucets an a steady drip/ stream and cabinets open and pray. Haba

[db@100]

Get some of this...https://www.homedepot.com/p/Frost-Ki...C30A/100196471

[9452772]

Stopping wind / draft is your goal. If you can keep the air from moving under the house that will do a lot. After that it will not take much to keep the air under the house around 30 degrees or so.

[RLhunter]

Draw up bath tub of water to flush toilets (5gal bucket) gallon jugs for coffee, drinking water, etc.

I personally would drain at lowest point (very important) blow them out from several different places (bathroom-kitchen) hot and cold. Not really necessary to drain water heater if inside the house. If yo do not get all the water out and it does do damage it would be limited to the part that could not be drained and not catastrophic to the entire house.
Hope this helps
Prayers sent

[Charles]

A heat lamp under the house and around plumbing in cabinets would help a bunch.

We keep our cabinet doors open that have faucets above the to help circulate heat.