How to prevent your pipes from freezing during the cold snap

Advice on how you can prevent your pipes freezing

We understand that money is tight after Christmas and that fuel bills are expensive.

However, in order to prevent your pipes from freezing, here are some things that you should consider doing:

• Set your heating to come on periodically to allow warm air into the home
• At night turn the heating down low, rather than off; this helps to maintain a balanced temperature throughout your property. (You can achieve this by turning your room thermostat down or turning down or by turning your radiators thermostatic valves down)
• Leave the cupboard doors open under the kitchen sink so that the room air can warm the pipes.
• Prevent cold air from getting into your home by sealing around doors and windows.
• On very cold days leave the taps running, with a flow that’s slightly more than a heavy drip. This will keep water moving in the pipes and help prevent them from freezing.

It is particularly important to consider some of these measures if you’re going away to escape the winter weather. The last thing you want to come back to is a frozen home or flooding!

If your boiler isn’t working or if you think your pipes have already frozen, call us on 0113 200 7700 and we will send someone out to fix it.

For emergencies (total heating or hot water failure when our office is closed the next day) call IDM on 01757 244 510.