Handy Tips to Winterizing Your Plumbing
A misconception people have when it comes to winter plumbing emergencies is that pipes will burst at the point at which freezing begins to occur. The truth of the matter though is that these cracks tend to develop somewhere between your closed faucet and where ice begins to form. This is because as the ice starts causing a blockage, there will be an increase in pressure in your piping. Since the faucets are closed, this pressure will have nowhere to go but widthwise, leading to a burst pipe.