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In response to "It was highly recommended to me today to cover the outside water faucets. A lot of stores here sell the styrofoam faucet covers. Do they really do the" by kelly

I only saw these after moving to Oregon. In - much colder - Canada, we didn't bother. Are northern pipes sturdier? -- nm

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Dec 9 '16, 19:18

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The valves are. -- nm - Ender Dec 9, 19:47
shutoff valves and more thorough exterior insulation. -- nm - Reagen Dec 9, 19:38
We also open our kitchen cabinets when it gets colder than 25 or the pipes freeze in the kitchen -- nm - Bacon Dec 9, 19:19 3
- we had that happen, lucky we didn't break a pipe then. also washing machine line froze, any pipe in the wall, there's often no insulation there -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 9, 19:57 2
  - Since our laundry room is in a very small enclosed space near an outside wall, our realtor also suggested we leave the laundry room door open all winter -- (edited) - kelly Dec 9, 20:04 1
    - our laundry room is open, its the hall from the kitchen to the 'garage' aka my office, it still froze (not to the point of damage luckily) so on reall - zeitgeist Dec 9, 21:00

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