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costabius t1_j6nzfzt wrote

Reply to comment by teambeattie in Stay warm this weekend by rocksandlsd

In addition to what the others have said, your thermostat is likely at the center of your house, while your water and heat pipes are on the outside walls. When it gets to "stupid cold" levels, it can drop below freezing at the walls before the air around your thermostat knows what happened.

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ecco-domenica t1_j6o860a wrote

This is a very good point. Your thermostat doesn't tell you what temperature the pipes in the outside walls are. I keep cheapo thermometers in the coldest corners of my house. They're not super accurate but if they're suddenly 10 or 20 degrees below what they normally read, I know something's going on and it ain't good.

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