It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?
It doesn’t freeze here too often, but when it’s going to we’ll go outside and set our faucets to drip to prevent freezing. I just have to remember to do this, and I worry that I’ll forget. Do those faucet covers work? Any other options?
Empty them. Our outdoor faucet has a shutoff in the basement and a small kind of vent valve. At the beginning of winter, I close the shutoff, put a bucket under the valve, open the faucet and then the valve, and thus empty the pipe. When the pipe is drained, I shut the faucet again so it won’t get a home for the spiders.
In spring I close the valve, open the shutoff again, and let some water run through the faucet.