Prevent Frozen Pipes

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In winter season, frozen pipes always prove to be disruption for the homeowner. By taking the complete preventive measures, homeowners can avoid pipes freezing problems. One of the major disadvantages of pipe freezing is that pipes burst due to extremely cold water. Our company Plumber Harefield mentions some easy tips that can help the homeowner prevent freezing of pipes to happen. These are as follows:

Pipe wrapping

Turn off water main valve
Leave a Drip
Use a Space Heater
Turn up the Thermostat


Pipe wrapping
Wrapping of pipe is very common in cold weather courtiers. Wrapping the pipe helps insulate the pipes against severe temperature.

Turn off main valve of water
In winter season turn off the water from main valve; it helps to prevent water from freezing and trickling. It can also help you to save a little on the bill.

Leave a Drip
Leaving a drip is an old advice; however, it works most of the times. Leaving a drip on all the taps of your home can help to prevent water freezing. If you try this strategy, do not forget to drip all the taps of your home, because it also includes basement and garden taps.

Use a Space Heater
Space heaters can help to protect pipe from freezing. Insulation of the space heater is difficult and time-consuming task. Once you get proper and professional insulation, you can use space heater easily. Space heaters are a Band-Aid approach that makes your home warm in winter season.

Call a plumber

The best way to ensure and fortify the safety of your pipes is to call reputable plumbing services. You can call our plumbers at Plumbers Harefield, our company provides outstanding services in less cost. Our plumbers are specialized in following winter problems, which are as follows:
*Fiberglass installation
*Installing a heating cable
*Expert heating application.

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