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Heat Tape Can Passively Prevent Frozen Pipes

Heat Tape Can Passively Prevent Frozen Pipes
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Aanes says to check odd places throughout your house, especially those who rarely go to.

Aanes says, "There are also crawl spaces, and things like that that don't necessarily get all the heat, you can get heat tape that you can put around your pipe and then put insulation around it and you can keep those pipes from freezing."

Heat tape is a valuable but inexpensive heating tool you can buy from your local hardware store the pipes won't over heat, and they certainly won't freeze.

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