freezing pipes

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if copper pipes freeze in your loft the ice expands and ruptures the pipe. Why doesn't this happen when you use a pipe freezing kit?
 
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Good question

Because you are only freezing a plug of ice which can expand along the length of the pipe. When the ice has nowhere to expand within the pipe it only has one way left to go and that is sideways thus causing a burst.
 

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