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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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#80. To: christine (#0)

In texas your water supply and meter are on the outside of the house, above ground?

Must be nice to be that certain it would never get cold enough to freeze.

If this is really the case, then some standard plumbing heat wrap would do the trick to thaw it now and keep it from freezing again in the future. Most of the heat wrap kits have a built in thermostat in the plug so that it only comes on when temps dip below 35 degrees.

I'm not sure if you'll be able to get one locally though, since pipes never freeze in Texas. :P

However, I'd try calling hardware stores, just in case.

Critter  posted on  2010-01-08   16:58:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

In texas your water supply and meter are on the outside of the house, above ground?

Some of the pictures I've seen of southern water meters are like a plastic box in the ground with the top of the box flush with the ground. Access to the meter is by removing the top of the box.

You certainly wouldn't get by with that here in NE Indiana.

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   17:12:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

my supply line is no more than 16 inches under ground at the deepest which is next to the house and less than 6 at the meter. there is about 20 inches of the supply line exposed to air before it goes into the wall and up to the attic. heck even out main breakers are outside here.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-08   17:25:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

It used to be that the frostline here in Fort Wayne was three feet. I'm thinkin' that with all this global warming, 42" should be the new minimum. Maybe 48".

Esso  posted on  2010-01-08   17:56:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I grew up in Iowa there the code was 48 inches minimum and the meter was inside. but hey there were times I'd have to dig 8 feet down in the snow to oil the windmill.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-08   18:51:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I grew up in Iowa there the code was 48 inches minimum and the meter was inside. but hey there were times I'd have to dig 8 feet down in the snow to oil the windmill.

You know what's screwed up?

All that shit is done now by Govt union workers.

You ever stare those fucks straight in the eye?

It's funny, they get all cross-eyed and crazy.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:19:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

some years back (30 or so) my dad was doing something with a house he owned, any way he had installed a precast cement stair for the front porch. as the V.A. was involved they sent an inspector to check stuff, the guy measured the height of the top stair from the ground and said because it was 1/2 inch higher than code it required a railing. so my dad kicks some dirt into the corner where the measurement was taken and said measure it again, that completed the inspection with no railing ever being installed.

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-01-08   20:43:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

A perfect example of understanding the purpose of having laws versus rules.

None of us need rulers, but could all use a...

I'll shut up now :)

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08   20:49:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

None of us need rulers, but could all use a... (inch or two?)

They have pills for that now.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2010-01-08   21:27:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#105. To: Jethro Tull (#99) (Edited)

None of us need rulers, but could all use a... (inch or two?)

Sorry, no but the answer we were looking for was versed lawyer

I'm being told by the judges vermin lawyer would have worked as well, I'll have to get back to you on this.

Dakmar  posted on  2010-01-08 21:47:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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