Charlie: B.J is over in Village Mills and he writes: Friends were out of town when a freeze happened, and they had ceiling pipes in their attic, and now they got a flood all over their house.
Tom: Ouch.
Charlie: Yeah, and he says: It happened to other friends. He’s wondering, he doesn’t have ’em, but he’s wondering what he can do to prevent this from happening? In other words, his pipes didn’t break, but he’s worried, what does he have to do, to make sure his pipes in the ceiling don’t break like-
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Tom: Well, one of the things, if you have an attic and you have pipes above the insulation, they need to be wrapped and wrapped well. That’s what people don’t do. They just think they’re in the attic, it’s okay, so you have bare pipes in the attic. Attic is gonna get cold. Now a lot of the pipes are on the floor of the attic, and so the insulation is covering it. That’s ideal. That’s the best way to be, but one way or another, even in my own attic, I’ve gone up and the pipes going to the water heater, going back down, they’re all double-wrapped up there and wrapped really well, so they don’t break. I don’t want my house to have that problem, either. So it’s a matter of wrapping the pipes.