New flash this morning = Frozen pipes!

http://www.bearmountaindesign.com/

Cheap insurance for $69.......

 

Yeah, kind of defeats the purpose of having a pellet stove and saving money if you need to fire up the oil guzzler periodically to circulate it.....

 

yea, but these temps are really pretty rare...the sensationalists at CNN panicked everyone with the BLIZZARD news stories, and now its the cold. Yup, some pipes will freeze, but that's frankly rare (I've heated for 14 years with my stove, and so far, none...knock wood!)....but, being in the oil biz too, its FAR more likely that folks will freeze up from not checking their oil levels and running out.....

 

That happened to me once in a house I was renting , the pipes for the boiler ran on on outside wall with little insulation ,oh well nothing was damaged just pizzed off the plumber who had to fix it . I learned to make sure to cycle the boiler a few times a day in really cold temps needed to for DHW anyways .

 

ThermGuard. I was one of the first to get one for my upstairs rooms.....works as advertised...great!

 

Seemingly, but I'd rather have used a few gallons of oil than pay for replacement frozen pipes.

Have you paid for a plumber to come in to your home lately?? And that doesn't even cover any damage that might happen if the burst pipe suddenly thaws w/o you knowing it was even frozen in the first place. Ever have to clean-up after a lot of water damage?
The cost of a little oil is insignificant in comparison.

 

Luckily, I do mostly my own plumbing because they can be very expensive unfortunately. I actually meant that as more as it still sucks that you have to still burn oil because of pipes freezing.......or, like yourself, pick up one of those nifty circulators

 

This may be another good reason to use a ThermGuard.....just 'sayin:

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/01/03/crews-battle-fire-in-marion-township/

 

My NG furnace helps keep my small basement warm during these real cold spells. 1/2 of the house is on a crawl space and I had frozen pipes several years ago after I went on the road with the t-stat set on 65F… my bride was in Florida at the time. Now I keep the t-stat a 70F in I have to leave during real cold weather… we are expecting -25F Monday night.

 

I have the pellet stove next to the boiler, so it keeps the pipes warm and heats the upstairs!

 

If he had that boiler anti-freeze in the pipes, he could turn the boiler off and save money? right?

 

I just came here to ask the very same thing lol. my pipe froze in the attic 2 nights ago. thankfully it didnt break i thawed it with a heat gun. I was sure i had an aquastat. i located a wire on the out pipe taped to it, so im assuming that is the aquastat wire. but i would of thought it would be taped to the inlet pipe.
The pipe that froze is high entering the air handler so it is exposed to the air. The outlet is on the bottom covered by insulation. I did have insulation done this year so that wire was kind of covered so stood warm i guess. I thought it would be some type of probe, but what it is or appears to be is 2 wires taped together and taped to the plastic outlet pipe. How can i test that wire to see if the unit will circulate? ie get it to 32degrees and ice cube? lol

ok went in the attic with a baggie of ice, aquastat worked fine, so it was the probe being covered by insulation **%@@

 

well, look who showed up...

 

Somersets been keeping me so warm i forgot about you guys

 

What are you doing playing with those pellets they didn't keep your pipes from freezing .