warmsecondrinse
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Once upon a time people did things like:
- leave cabinet and closet doors open where pipes run along exterior walls
- set the thermostat a degree or two higher
- take insulation OFF pipes steam and hot water pipes in the basement
- NOT set back the thermostat at all at night or when the house is empty
- shove some kind of insulating material in the small gap between the water pipe and the exterior wall
- open doors and accessways separating heated and unheated areas
You sort of have a choice: a $50 spike in monthly heating or a $500 plumbing repair.... or a fire.
When I was a kid this stuff was all over the local news whenever there was a prolonged cold snap.
But then again, what do I know? I have some really crazy ideas about heat and heating systems. More than once I've insisted that you can't replace a 24x24x4" hot water radiator with 24" of baseboard and get the same amount of heat. This insistence on my part has often been cited as evidence of my mental confusion.
- leave cabinet and closet doors open where pipes run along exterior walls
- set the thermostat a degree or two higher
- take insulation OFF pipes steam and hot water pipes in the basement
- NOT set back the thermostat at all at night or when the house is empty
- shove some kind of insulating material in the small gap between the water pipe and the exterior wall
- open doors and accessways separating heated and unheated areas
You sort of have a choice: a $50 spike in monthly heating or a $500 plumbing repair.... or a fire.
When I was a kid this stuff was all over the local news whenever there was a prolonged cold snap.
But then again, what do I know? I have some really crazy ideas about heat and heating systems. More than once I've insisted that you can't replace a 24x24x4" hot water radiator with 24" of baseboard and get the same amount of heat. This insistence on my part has often been cited as evidence of my mental confusion.