Mitchell-DIY-Guy
Well-Known Member
Coming from a land where you design things to PREVENT pipes from freezing, and frozen pipes "are a thing" and cause of many issues, imagine my surprise when I discovered a crew INTENTIONALLY freezing a pipe at my home yesterday.
The contractors for the City of Charlotte came by to add a box for a new irrigation meter. This "Tees" off the house water line, before the existing meter. Well, the water system design here doesn't have any shutoffs at the main or anywhere before the meter; the only shutoff is integral to the meter. So, how do they "shut the water off" so they can add a Tee? They freeze it.
https://pipefreezekit.com/PDFs/arctic-freeze-specs2.pdf
Once frozen they had about 5 minutes to cut and splice in the Tee. You learn something new every day!
The contractors for the City of Charlotte came by to add a box for a new irrigation meter. This "Tees" off the house water line, before the existing meter. Well, the water system design here doesn't have any shutoffs at the main or anywhere before the meter; the only shutoff is integral to the meter. So, how do they "shut the water off" so they can add a Tee? They freeze it.
https://pipefreezekit.com/PDFs/arctic-freeze-specs2.pdf
Once frozen they had about 5 minutes to cut and splice in the Tee. You learn something new every day!