Protecting Your Home from Frozen Pipes and Water Meter Damage During Extreme Cold

Iowa is once again facing a cold snap, with low temperatures that can create serious challenges for homeowners and renters alike. With daytime highs well below freezing and nighttime lows dipping to single digits, the risk of frozen pipes and the costly damage they can cause increases dramatically. When water freezes, it expands by about nine percent. That might not sound like much, but it creates an immense amount of pressure. This pressure inside a frozen pipe can skyrocket from a normal 40 psi to as much as 40,000 psi. No pipe is designed to handle that kind of stress,

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Prevent Frozen Pipe Damage by Winterizing Your Home

Dangerously cold temperatures have settled across Iowa, bringing a host of other problems with them. One that we’re dealing with here in Osceola is frozen water pipes. When exposed to freezing temperatures for an extended period of time – anywhere from 1-3 days, depending on the temperature – any water or liquid trapped in pipes can freeze and expand. The ice then puts pressure on the walls of the pipe, causing it to rupture when the pressure gets to be too much. Pipes in exterior walls are usually the most affected, but with the current temperatures, any pipes are at

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