Avoiding frozen pipes in insulated loft

silvercar

silvercar,i think it prudent to leave the hatch door partially open day and night with present temperatures.Better safe than sorry surely?

I agree with you, but OH keeps telling me the forecast lowest temp is "only" -4C and the loft is indoors even if not heated.

SuzieSue

Inforapennyinforapound wrote: »

I have also lagged heavily outside tap .

Have you also turned the water off from inside? I did this and drained it (or so I thought) and the pipe to my outside tap still froze. There is a large patch of water on my conservatory wall so there must have been water in the pipe but the wall isn't getting any worse and seems to be drying so I am going to leave it until it gets warmer.

I now realise that should also have kept the outside tap open so that water had a chance to escape when it was freezing.

Inforapennyinforapound

SuzieSue wrote: »

Have you also turned the water off from inside? I did this and drained it (or so I thought)


If i could i would. There is no separate valve to isolate the outside tap(the pipework is all behind kitchen cupboards so cant install a valve now).I can only turn off main stopcock,which obviously would shut off everything,but thanks for your input.

MimiJane

Just resurrecting this thread ...

We've had no hot water for a day now ... our loft has completely frozen up. It's a tiny loft, but is well insulated and pipes are lagged. However, due to dire condensation problems up there since the insulation was installed four years ago, we've had to have venting tiles on the roof and two air bricks put it. Consequently, it's literally (below) freezing up there.

We've opened up the hatchway, but no idea what else we can do to try and prevent the pipes bursting ... I'm terrified we'll have burst pipes!