No matter the strength of a plastic or metal pipe, freezing water expansion creates a tremendous amount of pressure that can ...

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When water freezes, it expands in volume by about 9 percent. And it expands with tremendous force: The pressure inside pipes may go from 40 pounds per square inch to 40,000 psi! No pipe can hold that ...