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Originally Posted by javadog

Even those can freeze if the cold gets deep enough into the wall.

There’s no excuse for having problems with hose bibs, failures are the results of bad architectural design and bad construction.

Yep, and there's plenty of both, especially in the South where freezes are rare.

THe big freeze that we had 2 years ago was because not only was there a freeze, but there were power outages too, so people didn't have heat in their homes to keep the homes and pipes warm.