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20 Dec 2021, 8:26 am

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That must be something American, I never heard of it before.

I'm wondering since the OP is from Colorado, if it's an altitude thing. I think a lot of areas there are high altitude.
Maybe shallow soils in mountainous areas would make burying pipes deep enough too expensive? Just a guess.


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20 Dec 2021, 8:29 am

Actually, I've heard of "burst pipes" mostly in the South, where they don't really attend to their pipes enough because of their relatively warm weather. I rarely hear about "burst pipes" in NYC, except in private houses which were recently built. In the old days, winters were quite cold here, so engineers made sure to build the pipes way below ground.

Most apartments in NYC are steam-heated by boilers. A big problem occurs when the boiler breaks; it might take months to fix a boiler.



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20 Dec 2021, 8:46 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
Actually, I've heard of "burst pipes" mostly in the South, where they don't really attend to their pipes enough because of their relatively warm weather. I rarely hear about "burst pipes" in NYC, except in private houses which were recently built. In the old days, winters were quite cold here, so engineers made sure to build the pipes way below ground.

Most apartments in NYC are steam-heated by boilers. A big problem occurs when the boiler breaks; it might take months to fix a boiler.

This makes sense.

I've never owned a house up North (hopefully will soon). We lived in apartments previously (Boston area and coastal NH), and it was never an issue there. We are currently in a motorhome, and it is definitely something we have to be careful about. Everyone one I knew down South left their faucets dripping during cold weather.


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20 Dec 2021, 9:00 am

I just researched the topic for my locality. The pipes are required to be no shallower than freezing depth + 40cm and recommended to be between 1.6m and 2.5m.
Typically, they are at 2m while freezing depth is about 1 meter.
Inside buildings, the pipes are always in inner walls.
So, they don't burst because they're well-winterized.


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20 Dec 2021, 9:18 am

Of course that's the case for many NYC apartments. The pipes are within the interior walls there, where the temperature doesn't fall below 0 degrees Celsius.