Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by shagie on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:18PM
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One trick of cold rooms and frozen pipes - put a light bulb in there.
In the (old) house that I'm in, there's a room that is for all practical purposes, under the garage. It is very poorly insulated and for some reason, some water pipes ran through it. On a cold winter, the pipes can freeze.
So, there's a lightbulb in there that for several years kept the pipes from freezing. The pipes have since been rerouted.
The next step up from just a lightbulb is to put a Y connector with two lightbulbs on it and screw a dusk to dawn sensor into one of the branches and then another lightbulb into that. This way, if the primary lightbulb burns out, the other one will turn on.
In the (old) house that I'm in, there's a room that is for all practical purposes, under the garage. It is very poorly insulated and for some reason, some water pipes ran through it. On a cold winter, the pipes can freeze.
So, there's a lightbulb in there that for several years kept the pipes from freezing. The pipes have since been rerouted.
The next step up from just a lightbulb is to put a Y connector with two lightbulbs on it and screw a dusk to dawn sensor into one of the branches and then another lightbulb into that. This way, if the primary lightbulb burns out, the other one will turn on.