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Burst Pipe

A split line keeps pushing water into framing until somebody closes the main, so close it and call rather than waiting to see how bad the morning is.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

Georgia freezes arrive in short bites, and that's exactly what makes them expensive. A house in Dublin or Vidalia may go a whole winter without trouble, then lose a line during one twenty-degree night in January. The plumber's first move is killing pressure at the main or at the well's pressure switch, because nothing else matters while water is still feeding the break. After that the search follows the cold: a vented crawlspace, an unconditioned garage wall, an attic run above a slab house where there was never a basement to keep the pipe warm. Hose bibbs on an exterior wall are a common find, since the split often sits back inside the wall where the freeze actually happened rather than at the spigot you can see. The damaged section comes out, gets rejoined with fittings that match what's already there, and the system is brought back up slowly so a second weak spot shows itself while a plumber is standing in front of it.

Frequently asked questions

Mild winters are part of the reason. Plumbing put in around Tifton or Moultrie was rarely built with a hard freeze in mind, so lines sit in vented crawlspaces and unconditioned garages with very little between them and outside air. One overnight drop is enough when the pipe never had protection to begin with.
Usually not, in a crawlspace home. A plumber can reach most supply runs from underneath, which keeps the work below the floor rather than through it. A slab house is the harder case, since the line may be in the attic or inside a wall instead, and access is decided once the leak is located.
That depends entirely on your policy and on what the water damaged, so contact your insurance provider before assuming either way. Photographs of the damage and the shutoff before anything is repaired tend to be worth having whichever direction the claim goes.
The pump keeps trying to hold pressure against an open break, so it can run far longer than it was meant to and the tank never satisfies. Cutting power to the pump does what closing a city main does, and it spares the motor at the same time.

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