Thank you all that responded to my post. I appreciate all that you have suggested and have followed up with all of them making sure i've done everything possible. Again thank you and wish me luck that i come out unscathed with no problems.

Thank you ponch37300, that makes me feel a little bit better. I did purchase a thermostat that has a wire that will reach under the home and i also have one that is wireless. The one that is wired i'm going to put under where the main waterline comes in and the wireless one towards the back bathroom...

I wish i did and i would not have had all the problems i did. But i did have help putting up the foam board and 6 mil plastic underneath the perimeter of the house.

I do as well, I didnt think of doing that but i will be doing that tonight. They've changed the forecast again. Tonight will be a low of 3 with wind chill of -20 and Wednesday morning it will be windy with a low of 6 and wind chill of -20 and in the evening it will be a low of -4 and wind chill of -...

Hi Greg I thought of the dripping water creating a problem like that as well and praying that it would not happen to us. I know I probably should not worry as much as i am but its hard not to. Once you go through such a turmoil as we did of not having water for 4 1/2 months in the worse part of wint...

1987Commandore, There are two drain lines that I can not reach as i have no access to them up top. Last night my daughter opened the closet to the front of the home and i could feel a really cool draft coming out from that closet. You can access the tub drain and faucets lines through that closet an...

I'm sorry I'm a little paranoid when it comes to winter and freezing weather. Once your waterlines shatter because of frozen water lines due to sub zero winter you worry have i done all that i can to prevent it from happening again. They have all been replaced and hopefully the repair person re-insu...

Hi Greg, take pictures and post them so we can see your progress as it goes along. i'm waiting an 18 by 28 adddition when we have the time and funds, but would love to see how yours comes along.

Thank you, i'm getting one as an early Christmas for myself.

Got all the plastic sheeting underneath and over 2/3rd of it stapled up. We had to stop and we were going to finish up the next day. Our fingers were so sore and tender from removing staples that didn't connect to the wood and we had to remove them before we could continue on. I guess if you use the...

I just hope they don't back out on me at the last minute . I don't think they realized what all was involved once they helped me last weekend but they didn't quit on me and boy was i thankful. Greg did you install your own heat tape and if you did, did you insult the pipe first or put the heat tape ...

Myself, my daughter and her friend helped me this weekend put insulation board under the perimeter of the house, while we were under there i found a few areas that i could see the pink insulation exposed so i taped them up. We could feel the wind move through the skirting and once we got the foam bo...

The plumber i hired did a horrible job in re-plumbing our home and as of now there is nothing i can do unless i have a problem with the lines and i pray i will be able to find someone right away and not take 3 1/2 months to do it in like it did this last time.

Thanks Greg if i was a spring chick i would definitely consider taking on the challenge for that very reason. It takes a toll on a person of my age to try and crawl around under our home but i have done it many a times because i can not get anyone to come do the repairs. This weekend i did hire a yo...

Thanks Greg, I've read that post but i was wondering if there was anything more i could do. It was devastating to us when this happened because we could not get anyone to do the work and the only person we could get to commit was our older plumber but he raked us over the coals and then left us hang...