My cousin called me last weekend and was once again making complaints about his pipes freezing! I told him he should utilize heat tape around the pipes plus put insulation around them, although he didn’t listen to what I was saying.
- He didn’t think they made insulation for water pipes, but my hubby plus I used cheap pool noodles.
My unbelievable friend and I cut them up the side plus they fit quite nicely around hot water pipes, plus were excellent insulation. Heat tapes were cheap plus lasted for quite a few years. When he said the water pipes were in the basement, I could not think of any reason for them to freeze, unless the oil furnace was not working for some reason. There was enough residual heat coming off the oil heating machine, that the basement shouldn’t go below freezing for uneven temperatures. He pretty much said he didn’t care how they froze, although he wanted someone who could thaw them for him. My unbelievable friend and I were the same age as he, plus my buddy and I weren’t going into his basement plus handling the work. I told him to call a plumber or the Heating plus A/C business. When he said he didn’t want to pay that much money, I told him to suffer plus figure out how to do the task entirely on his own. My unbelievable friend and I didn’t truly mind helping when someone had a problem, however my buddy and I weren’t going to do the thawing plus repairs for this guy at all. I didn’t hear anything else from him for around a month. He called to say that his oil furnace was broken, plus his pipes froze again. I asked about heat tapes once more, plus he hemmed plus hawed. I told him to reach out to the Heating plus A/C machine contractor plus see if someone was available to do an emergency repair.