[HobieMarty]

I was on the phone with my sister this morning wishing her a Merry Christmas and she noticed that she wasn't getting any water through her hot water side of any of the faucets in her house but she was getting cold water. She lives in the Florida panhandle and had been having freezing temperatures over the past few days like I have had here in Alabama. So anyway, she is on a slab and her pipes go up into the attic. She told me that she didn't use any hot water at all yesterday and so I came to the conclusion that the water in the lines between the water heater and the faucets had cooled and had frozen since no water was being moved through the pipes at all over a day and a night of freezing temperatures. The reason the cold didn't freeze was because she had used the cold side by flushing a toilet or rinsing things in the sink and that the cold water had been moving throughout the day. She opened up all of the hot water sides in every faucet and in about an hour she finally had hot water flowing again. She is going to have someone insulate the pipes in the attic and also get an insulated blanket thing for her water heater as it is located in her garage. I suggested to her that she needed to use her hot water more often and to let it drip a little overnight since the temperature will be below freezing again tonight.
Oh and this is new construction by the way, her house is less than a year old. I think the builder should insulate the pipes in her attic at no charge.

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