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Is anyone else in Tx doing anything different? My outside shit is better protected than ever but the house has a washer/dryer room that was built onto the back porch. Im not sure how well insulated it is. It has a double door on it but its an interior one. I hung a blanket over it and will leave a small electric heater on top of the washer.

Is anyone else in Tx doing anything different? My outside shit is better protected than ever but the house has a washer/dryer room that was built onto the back porch. Im not sure how well insulated it is. It has a double door on it but its an interior one. I hung a blanket over it and will leave a small electric heater on top of the washer.

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Leave your faucets running

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Im on a slab, 2x6 exterior walls. Never have before

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Im on a p&b old farm house. Shit is drafty and gay

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Believe me, I have spent time under a house with a torch thawing out metal pipes in a house right down the road. I built this one maybe 35 years ago. It use to be my parents house.

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This cold front will be no more serious than every other year. This is just "Covid: The weather version."

And all of you are falling for it.

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i just cringe at the weather reports, it's winter should be expected. Yet the news is trying to throw out new terms and blame climate change for typical winter fuckery.

everyone should have learned and prepared from texas a year or two back when they shut off the gas lines and caused all the issues.

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Ummmm, no

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I'll believe it when I see it. Get back to me when everyone freezes to death.

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Im talking about Tx, have you been outside?

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Is your washer a top loader? Just disconnect the water supply hoses and call it good enough. I've left a used top loader washer in unheated storage and they work fine when reconnected.

If you have a front loader, they don't pump all of the gray water out so there is likely water in the pump and freezing would cause damage. I'd open the door and point the heater at the inside of the washer with the door open. Hot air circulating inside and around it will keep it from freezing even if the room goes below freezing.

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Top but the water lines have to run under the porch, Not worried about interior so much. I wasnt here when this was done so not sure how.

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So the pipes under the porch are the real concern.

Can you seal around the base of the porch to the ground to create a dead air space? Hay bales, blue tarp, anything. Then set the heater under the porch pointed at the pipes to warm the dead air space?

Other alternative, can you shut off the supply lines to the porch and drain the porch pipes? No laundry gets done until warmer weather ...

If you can't do either of the above, leave the water running (fast drip or trickle if it gets really cold) might be the best/easiest solution.

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I actually think it will be ok, it was the last time. And yes it has skirting but the gaps between the deck boards....

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Minus 8 here the last 4 days, what's the temp in Texas?

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20 as now and windy as fuck

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Yeah for you guys that must be mighty nippy. I couldn't handle the Texas heat all the time either.

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It's fucking cold today man. Wife sent me to the H.E.B. to pick up some stuff for Christmas day and goddamn.

If you have exterior faucets put hose bibs over them. If your Home Depot is out of stuff like that today then use old socks and duct tape.

If you can it's a good idea to shut off the water main and then drain the exterior hose lines.

Leave the faucets that are close to exterior walls dribbling.

As for your washer/dryer room you could shut off the main and then drain the inlet to the washer.

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Faucet covers, no connected hoses. Leave lower cupboard doors open so house heat circulates. Cold, but the stiff wind helps.

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This sounds like a bunch of annoying bullshit to deal with.

You can't just shut the water supply off (to the whole house) and leave all the water outlets open?

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Sure, I could. And I have enough water stored so flushing wouldnt be a problem. But Im a spoiled American, aint gonna happen. You must not be in USA right now to not be worried at all?

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I happen to be one of those "Yankee fucks" that is "use.to this".

They also sell pipe insulation and electrically powered pipe heaters.

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The front is blowing in hard over here

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Clear skies and shorts wearing weather here in Commiefornia.

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Shut off water and depressurize. You really don't have to drain anything if it's difficult to do.

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Gonna ride it out being a privileged fuck.

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...or wash clothes all night. Theoretically, you could run short sections of garden hose from the faucets into the washer drain and let 'em drip.

And don't forget about letting things drip in out buildings (barn/shop/etc) too... easy to overlook those.

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Those are taken care of better than ever before. Ha I washed clothes and ran dishwasher today just in case.