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Title: Our pipes are frozen this morning...no water
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Published: Jan 8, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-01-08 11:27:56 by christine
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it's cloudy with no sun to warm us up. the high predicted today is 35. currently it's 26 degrees (feels like 17). could be hours before the pipes unfreeze. i'm going nuts already.

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Are they inside or outside pipes?

If they're inside pipes, try turning on the hot water faucet in the bathtub. When the pipes start to thaw, the trickle of hot water from the hot water tank will warm up the pipes faster, that's if it's just the inside pipes that are frozen...

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-01-08   11:31:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

i think it's the outside pipes going into the house that are frozen. i just did what you said and turned on the hot water spiggot on the master tub. thanks for the advice.

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   11:43:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Here's a few links that might help you out...

Thawing frozen pipes

Preventing and Thawing a Frozen Water Pipe

What should you do if a water pipe freezes?

How To Thaw Frozen Pipes

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-01-08   12:36:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Frozen Pipe Behind a Wall

When you find that the frozen pipe serving the faucet is behind a wall or ceiling, you've got a challenge on your hands. You have three choices:

Turn up the heat in the house and wait;
Tear out the wall or ceiling section to get at the frozen section of pipe. Then thaw the pipe as an exposed pipe;
Use an infrared lamp or lamps to assist in heating the wall section in front of where you think the frozen section is located. Infrared lamps are better than regular heat lamps because they pass through the air without heating it and will direct more energy to warming the wall and frozen pipe.

oh brother. it's anyone's guess where the frozen pipe(s) is!

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   12:47:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

if none of your water is running it is most likely where the supply line from the meter comes out of the ground next to your house. get a clamp on spot light fixture and spot light bulb aim it at the pipe and turn it on. for best results enclose the light and pipe in something even if it's just a tent made from a blanket surrounding but not in contact with the light or the lamp fixture.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-08   12:54:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

if none of your water is running it is most likely where the supply line from the meter comes out of the ground next to your house. get a clamp on spot light fixture and spot light bulb aim it at the pipe and turn it on. for best results enclose the light and pipe in something even if it's just a tent made from a blanket surrounding but not in contact with the light or the lamp fixture.

that's the situation. thanks.

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   13:00:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Thermite would do it too. (Ducks.)

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-01-08   13:02:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Actually, here when our pipes freeze, we call the banker first and plumber second.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-01-08   13:05:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Actually, here when our pipes freeze, we call the banker first and plumber second.

I'll bite. Why?

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-01-08   13:20:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

In winter time plumbers are our enemies.

They sit in their shop sticking pins in people to cause frozen pipes. When the phone rings, they KNOW they are KING and you are gonna pay. First question is always, the same, do you understand my fees????

No BS excuses will work, you are on social security, you are sick, no money in bank, all that is brushed aside, "do you understand my fees"?????

Then you start whining and sniveling, to no avail, you start pleading for him to show up. He baits you for another half hour before he grudgingly says he will put you on a list.

List you say, what damned list??????

Cynicom  posted on  2010-01-08   13:29:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

List you say, what damned list??????

I think I would be making a list of my own. And checking my safety twice.

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-01-08   13:33:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

My last foray a year ago was $1100.

I tried explaining I did not want to buy an interest in his business.

He just snickered.

Cynicom  posted on  2010-01-08   13:35:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

My last foray a year ago was $1100.

good lord. we just called our plumber and he said he doesn't have any surefire way to thaw our pipes either. :/

christine  posted on  2010-01-08   13:44:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

When our pipes first froze after we moved here what I did was hair dryer and I would boil water and put it in the bathtub hoping to warm it enough to melt some of the ice without it expanding. Depending were the pipes are you may try a heat lamp in one area and hair dryer in another. It takes a long time with a hair dryer.

MiracleRose7  posted on  2010-01-08   14:09:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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