And my pipes are frozen.
I’ve been under the house with a hair dryer all morning and have managed to get one sink working. I’m wondering if it would be really dangerous to put a space heater under there so I can stay inside.
The joy of old, historic, uninsulated homes.
December 22, 2008 at 10:31 am
We’ve done the space heater trick. Our turns off if knocked over, which made me a little more comfortable with it.
December 22, 2008 at 10:45 am
Success! I gave up on the space heater- not in the end for safety purposes but because it seemed utterly ineffective.
Targeted hair dryer application was the trick.
December 30, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Without looking at it, and therefore at the risk of sounding totally stupid, I would suspect you could stop the pipes from freezing by stopping air cold going directly into your crawl space. Seal up any and all crawl vents.
Also, if you’re handy, you could wire up a simple exhaust fan in one crawl vent, seal all others, and you would be pulling warm air down through your old wood floors into the space—shouldn’t be enough to send your heat bill to the moon, just enough to stay above freezing down there.