Frozen Pipe Guide By Plumbers

Winter will soon be in full swing, it is advisable by plumbers to take some precautions to avoid suffering major or minor damages to your home from frozen pipes.

You'll save yourself hours of hassle from insurance claims as well as the misery of mopping up and tearing down by doing the belowas advised by plumbers!

• Find your mains water stop valve and make sure you can turn it off and on. It will usually be somewhere on the ground floor of your home.

• Repair any dripping taps

• Look in the loft space to see whether it contains any water pipes and tanks (most houses do).

• Examine the condition of the insulation on pipes and tanks in the loft. - Is it intact? How thick is it? If it is damaged, or too thin, you should improve or replace it.

• All pipes and tanks in the loft space, or anywhere else which may be liable to freezing, need to be lagged.

• The thicker the lagging the better, especially if you live in a particularly cold part of the country, or have a well-insulated loft floor. (This can stop warm air rising from the rest of the house to heat pipes and tanks in the loft).

• If you intend to leave your house unoccupied for more than a few hours during the cold weather, the pipe lagging should be at least 50mm in diameter - preferably 75mm. This is thicker than the insulation material stocked in many DIY stores, but is usually available from plumbers' merchants.

• Use preformed pipe insulation on all pipe runs.

• Wrap bends or hard-to-get-at pipes with securely fixed strips of insulation material.

We hope this information has been helpful, if you have any questions regarding your installation please feel free to email us on info@vedhas.co.uk .

If you would like any work carried out please feel free to call us now on 0800 046 1241.