Tag: frozen pipe
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The Ultimate Home Maintenance Checklist for the Winter
Your home is the place that you look for when you want comfort, and this means that you want to be able to ensure that it is winter-proof by the time that relentless cold weather hits your location. It’s important to take the time to create a home maintenance checklist for the winter. The following…
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How to Prevent Frozen Pipes
In chilly Alberta winters, water lines can freeze if frost is pushed below the waterline. The pipes in your home can also freeze due to extreme temperatures, wind chills, or furnace failures which result in no heat in your home. You should be familiar with how to prevent your pipes from freezing, and what to…
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How to Handle a Burst Pipe (in Winter)
Northern Alberta is under an Extreme Cold Warning with wind chill values of -40 to -45 expected to persist into Saturday. This is frozen and burst pipe weather. We’ve written about how to prevent and thaw frozen pipes, but what happens if it’s too late for that? Hopefully you can thaw the frozen area or…