The plumbing pipes in the basement of our apartment building froze and burst years ago. We still hear horror stories about it from tenants who were around before us. That's why, when we received a helpful reminder from Charles and Hudson, we wanted to share.
For homeowners, check out the link for tips on how to repair burst pipes and prevent it from happening in the first place. For apartment owners, pass this on to your board. For renters, drop this friendly tip to the landlord. (Thanks for the tip, Timothy!)
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All you have to do is leave a faucet running (very slowly)at night when it's forcasted to freeze.
This comes too late for me - my pipes froze last week, and it's been a headache getting them completely fixed. My hallway flooded and it's still soaking wet, even with dehumidifiers running night and day. I wish I'd had the foresight to ask about the pipes before I moved in - turns out they're not up to code and were installed incorrectly, hence the freeze.
Luckily, I move to a new townhome next week, where the water actually works like it should.
this is no problem for me, as my sink is always leaky anyway. ahhahaha
Too late for us, too. Last year I had just left the kitchen and heard a "whooosh" sound that I thought was the old steam heaters, before it slowly dawned on me that this was an entirely new kind of sound.
Turns out, one of the pipes had burst, and our kitchen floor was drenched within about two minutes. Worse than that, the apartment below us was drenched from the ceiling. It was Saturday morning, so everyone in my building was home, so we called the landlord, and they got it fixed and cleaned up all of the water.
But the worst part was, the landlord threatened to make us pay for it all, even though the plumber told me that it was the result of extraordinarily shoddy work that our landlord had done in the building.
I still get mad just thinking about it.