Thread 2948949

I am building a bathroom in my cuckshed and I want to insulate it. However, there's no room to insulate in between the block wall (goes 3 feet up) and the pipes running to and from the hot water heater. If I insulate on the inside of the pipes, I am concerned that they could freeze on an extremely cold night because they wouldn't be getting much warmth from the inside because the insulation would be in the way. If I don't insulate near the pipes at all I know for a fact they would never freeze, because they'd get so much warmth from the bathroom (it has a register in it) but I'd lose a lot of my heat. What's the best solution?

>>2948949 (OP)
Put the heating wire through the line, cold temperature relay and hopefully forget about it

>>2948949 (OP)
I've seen minumimum wage insulators work with that amount of space on so many job sites. Are you serious?

why didn't the holes for the lines get drilled in the middle of the studs? Would make it a.lot easier to stuff batting behind the lines. Also would be stronger than having the hole offset to one side like it is.

>>2948949 (OP)
You can move the water lines. At a minimum they should be centered in the stud. If you're not concerned with looks you could surface mount them on the wall or ceiling.

>>2948949 (OP)
insulation will not prevent the pipes from freezing if the room is not heated to at least above freezing.

>>2948949 (OP)
Leave the hot water continuously running in the winter to have the hot water heat the pipes.

>>2948949 (OP)
all those studs are fucked if theyre load bearing. youre only ever supposed to use the middle 3rd of vertical studs for utilities.

feixeb

>>2948949 (OP)
>remove stud wall
>2" foam insulation
>return stud wall 2" inset
or
>clip clip pex
>redrill studs in a lower or higher location centered
>insulate
>replace pex through new holes

>>2948949 (OP)
Loam it up.

>>2948949 (OP)
move the pipe to the center
if you don't want to tear the wall out, then just hammer in new 2x4's right next to the old ones before redrilling the holes in the center of both

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