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032 - Why Hot Water Freezes Before Cold Water (And What It Means for Your Pipes)
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032 - Why Hot Water Freezes Before Cold Water (And What It Means for Your Pipes)
Oct 19, 2025
Episode 32
Joe & Melissa Bates • Northern Air
"Water cannot be compressed, so when it freezes and then it thaws, if it doesn't have anywhere to go, it breaks stuff."
A frozen pipe isn't just an inconvenience—it's a structural failure waiting to happen in your home.
Joe explains why hot water lines freeze first, how water's incompressibility turns a simple freeze-thaw cycle into a pipe-bursting catastrophe, and the single maintenance mistake that floods basements every spring.
The physics are unforgiving: water can split mountains, and it will split your pipes too if you don't understand what's actually happening when temperatures drop below zero.
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