Ben woke up this morning to discover we couldn't use the shower because our cold water pipe was frozen solid. No we weren't shocked since the pipes back up to the garage where there is no heat or room for insulation. We had planned on installing heat trace around the pipes anyway, but the temperature dropped a little too quickly and we never actually got to cross that off our list. So as the temperatures dropped way into the single digits (weren't we at 2 degrees last night?) the water began to froze.
So tonight, when Ben got home from work he spent what seemed like hours positioned "in" the wall like so..
wrapping the pipes with heat trace- a wire that conducts heat, then wrapping the wires with insulation in hopes that tonight's 5 degree temperatures don't cause another freeze.
