You should not have air in your pipes. Call a plumber.
If the basement has ventilation to outside, the answer is yes. Heat loss from the pipes will escape outside the house. If the basement is closed to the outside then no, the pipes need not be insulated. Any heat lost from the pipes will provide some heating to the basement that will rise into the house.
Insulating your copper pipes is a great idea. Insulating with foam will insure less heat loss which save energy and probably take a few bucks off your electricity bill.
no they are not
In the U.S. they are called plumbers, assuming you mean water pipes, and not the pipes that one smokes.
Spiracles - small openings in the abdomen- go into trachae - breathing pipes
Believe it or not they do! They have tiny holes called spiricles that are the openings to trachae which are their breathing pipes.
You should read the manual and familiarize yourself with the steps. You also have to make sure you use preforated drainage pipes to allow to enter and exit through the small openings along the pipe.
You should not have air in your pipes. Call a plumber.
if the water in the pipes freezes, it will expand and break the pipes.
if the water in the pipes freezes, it will expand and break the pipes.
if the water in the pipes freezes, it will expand and break the pipes.
if the water in the pipes freezes, it will expand and break the pipes.
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DiFFRACTiON
Diffraction
Why is the second paragraph a contradiction of the first? If hot water pipes 'Absolutely' do not freeze faster than cold water pipes then why the comment about the cold water pipes having a larger diameter which causes them to freeze at a slower rate than the smaller hot water pipes? Also, the word then in the last line should be thanand there should be an a between usually and larger. And, piping should be changed to pipe.