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2. How homeowners can prevent pipes from freezing during winter

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   If a faucet or pipe ends up freezing inside the house, it can be thawed by using an electric hair dryer, wrapping an electric heat pad around the pipe or by soaking towels in hot water and ...

3. How to prevent pipes from freezing in your home (and how to ...

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   The running water through the pipe will help melt the ice. Apply heat to frozen pipes until full water pressure is restored. This can be done by wrapping a heating pad around the pipe, or by ...

4. Prepare for the coldest Arctic blast: How to keep your pipes ...

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   Pipes exposed to "severe cold" including outdoor hose bibs, swimming pool supply lines, and water sprinkler lines. (If you have swimming pool or sprinkler supply lines, they needed drained too.)

5. Frost line - Wikipedia

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   The frost depth depends on the climatic conditions of an area, the heat transfer properties of the soil and adjacent materials, and on nearby heat sources. For example, snow cover and asphalt insulate the ground and homes can heat the ground (see also heat island). The line varies by latitude, it is deeper closer to the poles.

6. Ground freezing - Wikipedia

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   Cross section of a ground freezing pipe as used in the Big Dig. Ground freezing is a construction technique used in circumstances where soil needs to be stabilized so it will not collapse next to excavations, or to prevent contaminants spilled into soil from being leached away. [1] Ground freezing has been used for at least one hundred years.

7. Trace heating - Wikipedia

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   Electric heat tracing, heat tape or surface heating, is a system used to maintain or raise the temperature of pipes and vessels using heat tracing cables. Trace heating takes the form of an electrical heating element run in physical contact along the length of a pipe.