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Burst Pipe

Close the main valve first, before anything else, because a broken line under pressure fills a wall cavity faster than most people expect.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

Central Arkansas gets its burst pipes in a particular pattern, and a plumber who works here knows where to start looking. An ice storm rolls through, temperatures sit below freezing for two or three days, then power goes out in the hill country west of Little Rock and the house stops heating itself. The lines that fail are the ones with no warm air on them: a run through an unheated garage, a hose bib on a north wall, supply piping in an attic where the insulation sits under it rather than over it. Once the main is closed, the search follows the water back. In slab houses that often means opening a small area of drywall at the coldest exterior wall in the house. The damaged section comes out and gets rejoined in the same material it was, since a mixed joint made in a hurry is next winter's leak. Then pressure goes back on with somebody watching the meter, because a freeze bad enough to split one line has usually stressed several, and the second one shows up an hour later.

Frequently asked questions

The freezing cracks it and the thaw reveals it. Ice expanding inside the line splits the wall or pushes a fitting apart, but the pipe stays plugged with ice and nothing escapes. The flood arrives when it warms up and pressure comes back through the break.
An attached garage usually isn't heated, its door doesn't seal well, and it often has the water heater line or a laundry run passing through it. That combination turns it into the coldest room in the house on an ice-storm night, and the pipes in it have nothing protecting them.
Shut the water off at the main and open a couple of taps to drain the pressure out of the system. That won't stop a pipe freezing, but an empty line splits less often, and a line with no pressure behind it doesn't flood the house when it thaws.
It can. A pressure tank or well line in an unheated pump house is exposed the same way indoor plumbing is, and a break out there drains the tank and can run the pump continuously. Worth checking after any hard freeze even when the house looks fine.

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