Consult Home Inspector for Preventing freezing pipes.
Consult Home Inspector, First and foremost if your pipes freeze annually in the cold weather. That’s an indication that your house plumbing pipes not installed in the proper location.
The house is not properly insulated can result in freezing pipes. Hire a home inspection company to inspect your existing home or the home you’re purchasing. The home inspector can help to identify these potential risks in a home that you are looking to purchase.
Common area for freezing Under sink base in kitchen
Heat lose inspection
Economical savings from a Home Inspector
What are economical thing you can do is schedule an appointment with masssave.com to perform an energy audit. Also a Energy Auditor can help you insulate the home to reduce your heating cost and to help reduce the potential for freezing pipes.
Also make sure you notify whoever is insulating your home that reducing the risk of freezing pipes is high on your agenda, there is a risk of the insulation not getting installed correctly can increase the risk of ice damning and potentially caused water damage to your home.
17°F air temperature infiltrating basement that can freeze pipes.
Prevent Freezing to areas of house
If your home is located in a nonparticipating mass save utility provider, then I would recommend contact a qualified insulation contractor and or a qualified Plumber. Also Home Inspectors can give guidance and plumbers can help you relocate the plumbing pipes to prevent freezing in the future. Also Some general contractors provide services like this to help reduce your risk of ice damning.
Spray foam sealant for gaps
Consult a Home Inspector for water damage prevention
Home Inspector Consulting helps there’re many things you can do yourself if you’re handy on the exterior of the home and interior. Also can Help reduce your risk of freezing pipes to include the use of spray foam insulation that you can buy any can at your local hardware store.
Water main leak detection shutoff valve
Stop water leak damage
Installation of water leak sensing valves installed to the Watermain and washing machine areas to detect leaks. Temperature sensing System also added to the home to notify you of cold areas. These are also sensors you could put in these locations that could freeze and notify you.
