Lowes in College Station is sold out of the outdoor faucet covers. Anyone seen them somewhere?

Relax....I have lived here 35 years and never bought a faucet cover

I have already experienced a frozen pipe from the last hard freeze. It will happen at the mid to lower 20's and the longer the temps stay under freezing it will be worse.

Edit: I found some at McCoys.

If not, you can fashion them fairly easily that will do the job for this snap. Cut a piece of the foam pipe insulation to legth that you can fold it over the exposed area, cut a few pieces to fill in gaps and tape up. Or just wrap a hand towel around it a couple times and tape up. If it won't make a mess you can just let it drip.

I typically just do as stated above and wrap it with a towel and tape. We have exposed exterior faucets and haven't ever had an issue.

We had one area of the house freeze the last time it was (almost) this miserably cold. We have a flood light on it tonight.

Rag and duct tape

This is what we actually did haha! I also just heard that True Value has some.

AggieWife2008 said:

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This is what we actually did haha! I also just heard that True Value has some.

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That's about all you need for our normal winters, but it's a pain to cut it all off in 2 days then redo the next snap.
We also learned ~5 years ago that isn't enough when it gets down in the teens for a couple days. Luckily nothing burst, but I was thawing the main water line to two houses the last time it was abnormally cold.

Now both houses are permanently insulated to zero with a couple external systems that require a quick drain and shutoff valve wrap.
5 minutes and no worries.
Next week when it's 80 wrap everything with the correct materials to a few inches below ground level leaving only the valve exposed. Get a few good slip covers that are good to below what is normal and remember where you put them.

I can have a horse barn, shop, irrigation systems, and the house faucets ready for a hard freeze in under 5 minutes.

Wrap with newspaper and cover with duct tape.

Or perhaps you can be like the college kid two houses over who is still running his sprinkler.

I'm hoping for a fantastic ice display if it runs tonite or tomorrow night!

Went out to drip mine an hour ago and 2 were frozen.

The house I think it is?

SoTheySay said:

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The house I think it is?

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Yep!

PBR said:

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Relax....I have lived here 35 years and never bought a faucet cover

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You were here in '83 when it got down to somewhere around 10 degrees on Christmas day? We had a pipe freeze / break inside the wall of our garage?

Or Dec. '89 when pipes in Galveston were freezing / breaking?

I covered several rental property faucets with Lowes faucet cover earlier this week, and got a call today that one of them was broken and spraying water.

Don't cut anything, wad anything, no tape.....

Just:

Stick a can - coozie over the faucet. Done.

PSA.

The faucet that froze had a faucet sock and insulating tape on it because it extended too far from the wall for a faucet cap. The ones with the styrofoam faucet caps did not freeze.

My advice is to avoid the sock, it is garbage even though it advertises being tested to 8 degrees or something like that for so many hours.

I feel guilty and relieved at the same time. I went to Lowes in CS before New Year's and bought 10 faucet covers. The pile was getting low. Installed them Jan 2 before I left for Memphis. Was 70 degrees or so at the time, and I was simply thinking it would probably freeze before my next trip back to CS. Sure glad I did it, but hate to hear that others are struggling.