Denver news media was all a-twitter that we were 10F colder than the North Pole Station a couple days ago.
Tuesday will be downright balmy. Heh. It's warning up now.
Old screenshot.
Tonight's.
Had an outside wall sink give me a scare today. Turned faucet on, nothing. A week below 20F and numerous close to -10F nights in a row and something finally froze. Crap. Cabinet doors were open, room was warm, measured temp of the area behind the cabinet where the pipes dive into the outside wall was 67F.
That wall is the only place the basement wall is above ground and there's an outdoor spigot covered by an insulating cover just past that bathroom. I suspect the feed line to that slowly froze backward past the bathroom sink. Toilet in that bathroom was flowing when the sink stopped.
Late afternoon sun may have warmed the outside spigot enough to thaw. Maybe we will still have a gusher in that leg or the spigot itself once outdoor temps reach 32 or higher on Wed. May have to tear behind that sink to see what the insulation is like on the spigot feed wall or install a winter shutoff indoors for that one. Wall outside is painted white. Doesn't help any.
I figured for sure that in a day or so I'd be dealing with a cracked/burst pipe in the feed to the bathroom. Luckily it started flowing tonight. Been trying to figure out where it routes so I can figure out where it got cold. Luckily it appears to have thawed gently this time. Annoying. We'll see. Definitely need to find the cold spot and come up with a better setup there. Can't cheat and heat-tape under the sink and have it conduct over to the outside spigot like an older house with copper, since it's plastic pipe. I think the above ground concrete just got cold enough it got through the insulation to the pipe.
May have to create a way for indoor air to reach in there from under the bathroom sink and stick a fan under there to circulate air into that space. Meanwhile, that sink is now set to run a trickle of water.
Wonder if I could rig up a way to heat a box around that spigot? There's an outside electrical outlet near it. Hmmm. Light bulb in a wooden box cover? Hmm. Thinking.