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Burst Pipe

Close the main valve before anything else, since a pipe that has already split will pump water into the structure for as long as the valve stays open.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

Winter here goes deeper and stays longer than almost anywhere else that has this much housing, and the plumbing shows it. Frost can drive past five feet in a Sioux Falls January, and the failures a plumber sees follow a pattern. Exterior wall runs behind a kitchen sink, hose bibs that were never drained in the fall, and supply lines crossing an uninsulated rim joist take most of the damage. The shutoff comes first. Then the plumber traces the split, which means following the run rather than chasing the wet spot, because water crosses a floor before it drops. The bad piece gets cut out and rejoined with fittings matched to the existing pipe, and the line comes back up to pressure slowly while somebody watches every joint. There's a second half to the job that matters more up here than people think. A plumber looks at how that pipe got cold, since a run that froze in a Brandon crawlspace at twenty below will do it again the next time the wind comes out of the northwest.

Frequently asked questions

There's no single number, because it depends on exposure and how long the cold lasts. A line in an insulated interior wall can ride out days below zero. One touching an exterior sheathing board can freeze during a single night in the teens if the wind is driving into that wall.
The ice that split the pipe is also plugging it. Nothing escapes until the plug melts, so a lot of people around here discover the break on the first mild afternoon after a long snap rather than during the cold itself.
The buried portion is usually below frost on a farm place, but the pressure tank, the pitless adapter connection and the piping in an unheated well house or pump room are all exposed, and those are the parts that go on a rural property.
It depends on the policy and on the circumstances of the freeze, so ask your insurance provider before you assume anything. Photograph the damage first, and hold onto the section of pipe that failed.

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