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Originally Posted by pksystems View Post
haha.... it was -22F here a couple weeks ago. Quit crying
I used to live in NY so the cold is nothing new. The difference is TX is not really equipped for bitter cold.

We have pipes blowing all over the community, something I never gave a second thought to back East.

Which leads me to a question.

When I built the house here we did "instant hot" water.

Basically the hot water pipes recirculate so when you open the tap, boom, hot water from the git go.

Curious if that helps mitigate the worry of frozen pipes.

Logically the cold and hot pipes will have parallel runs so does the proximity of warm pipes help prevent the cold water pipes from freezing?

Could that be why some of my neighbors have issues and I (knock wood) have not? T
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