Winter is the one who will give birth to frozen water pipes. With frozen water pipes, you will be having problems regarding your drainage system and drinking supply. So you must prevent or remove this ice on the pipes. Before and after winter, you can contact a plumber to check the place where most of the pipe will freeze. Mostly pipes are found under the house or at the side and some of them are exposed outside of the house. If there is problem like leakage, the plumber will fix immediately and also he can assist you from protecting these pipes. You can buy insulators such as foam or silver duct tape, on a local hardware store. In addition, if you have a pool you can drain the water if not use. If there is already ice on the pipes, you can control the flow of water at its highest pressure but in not immediately to avoid bursting because it will remove some ice in the pipe. Finally, there are some items that can help you to speed the process of thawing the ice you can buy them on department store. For example, you can use heater, hair dryer, electric heating or just simply water soaked towel.