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Originally Posted by bill_daniels
The pipe from our outdoor faucets goes into the walls, not exposed anywhere, except possibly in the attic, and by the time you get to the attic, a cut off valve isn't really going to help. The better solution is to keep the water in the short bit of exposed pipe before it enters the wall, warm.
Thus our solutions of heavily insulating it, and heating it.
I wouldn't want to cut open sheetrock to install cut off valves, either. It would be easier to simply turn off the water and drain the pipes, but that's not really an option for a family with young kids to be without water.
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If you can find any incandescent light bulbs, they are a good heat source for something like this, although you would have to cover it somehow to hold the heat around the spigot.
I used to have a covered well pit that held the pump and pressure tank. During the coldest months I left a light bulb on next to the pump, never had a freezing problem.