Do you wrap your faucets

[Steve S]

It's getting cold here and last nite, it dipped to 17 degrees. I used to wrap my outdoor faucets for years but notice that many people don't do that. I wrapped 3 out of 4 faucets last nite but couldn't get the hose off of the 4th one so left it.

How many people here do this?

[MNAirHead]

turn off inside.. oepn the outside valve and let sit.

[Jeff K]

I put those styrofoam covers over my outside faucets in the Winter. Cost like a buck each, and covers the entire thing.

[standupright]

i wrap the jimmy before a shimmy

[()smoke()]

i wrap or cover mine when we are expecting a hard freeze...if i can't cover for whatever reason, i'll leave it dripping

[Randall]

We have what are called non freeze hose bibs in Canada. It was -27 deg C here the other day so wrapping would not help any lol.

[fdeck]

Originally Posted by Steve S

It's getting cold here and last nite, it dipped to 17 degrees. I used to wrap my outdoor faucets for years but notice that many people don't do that. I wrapped 3 out of 4 faucets last nite but couldn't get the hose off of the 4th one so left it.

How many people here do this?

That hose is going to be a problem. I did that once, and the hose kept enough water in the faucet that the faucet froze and cracked. A faucet froze and burst open at a rental house where I once lived.

[Joe Gress]

Originally Posted by Jeff K

I put those styrofoam covers over my outside faucets in the Winter. Cost like a buck each, and covers the entire thing.

Yup. On a super deep freeze we'll turn it off from inside.

[MakiSupaStar]

Please tell me this is another dirty metaphor thread akin to grilled cheese sammiches.

[RWP]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Please tell me this is another dirty metaphor thread akin to grilled cheese sammiches.

I don't think so but there is still time.

[BurningSkies]

Warm state folks say the funniest things.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I'm a cold state person and I've never even heard of this Never considered my hose faucet to lead to a pipe freezing. So I should either wrap it in something or turn on the faucet and turn off its supply?

[BurningSkies]

Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler

I'm a cold state person and I've never even heard of this Never considered my hose faucet to lead to a pipe freezing. So I should either wrap it in something or turn on the faucet and turn off its supply?

Turn it off from the internal valve, then open it so any remaining water evacuates.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Good thing it hasn't started to ice or snow here yet.

"looks outside at ice and snow"

Crap in a hat.....

[JimB52]

My parent's house in Connecticut would get a frozen, split hose bib once every couple of years.
Here in the Middle Atlantic states I haven't had a problem in the 17 years I've lived here.

[BurningSkies]

Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler

Good thing it hasn't started to ice or snow here yet.

"looks outside at ice and snow"

Crap in a hat.....

In all honesty, it doesn't happen all that often. I live in a place that's never had the outside faucet shut down in the winter and we've never had a problem (and we have long hard cold winters). Its a good precaution though.

[Chunk-O-Funk]

Turn in off from inside, that's about it.

Been living in New England all my life, and never had a pipe burst. One close call with an exposed water pipe in an unheated stairway. The water stopped flowing one sub-zero day, but it never burst. Since then that pipe has a thermostat controlled heating element that I plug in when the temps fall into the single digits.

[Steve S]

When you say "turn it off from inside" are you talking about the main shut off valve?

[Chunk-O-Funk]

Nope.

There is a valve in the basement to stop the flow of water to just that outside faucet.

[FunkMetalBass]

Wrapping a faucet? I don't even know what that is.

I live in Phoenix, Arizona. I don't think I've seen ice in this city that didn't come from a freezer.