If it’s as cold as it was here in Maryland last night (a gazillion degrees below freezing), you might want to consider leaving a tap or two to drip overnight.
Or, of course, you could spend your Saturday morning with a hairdryer, gently warming every inch of copper piping in your house(and just outside, because your neighbors don’t think you’re crazy enough) hoping to hell you don’t make something even worse happen, like a burst pipe. Or maybe the burst pipe happens anyway, I’m not 100% sure. At any rate, after you’ve gently warmed enough copper pipe, you’ll hear an almighty clunk and some rumbling that sounds uncannily like a child falling down the stairs, and you will have water again. After a quick check to make sure that you have water, and a child that didn’t fall down the stairs after all, you can take a well deserved break.
So far, nothing worse happened, or at least I don’t think so. I have running water in all the right places but none on the floor, and I’m fairly sure that’s how it’s supposed to go. From now on I’m going to leave a tap dripping overnight, because I’m not doing that again.
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