We were unpleasantly surprised when we discovered the hot water in our half bath didn't work - at all. (All the other water worked fine in the house.) Luckily - or not given it is the cause of the freezing! - the pipes are exposed under the house in a crawl space. So Steve spent the last 1.5 hours figuring out which pipe is which and trying to defrost it with a hair dryer (which is the consensus online on how to fix such problems).
He also had some fun starting to demo our blue tile to see if he could access more of the pipe in the wall….
Success!
2 comments:
hope he remembered to wrap them after he thawed them!
Me? I discovered in the middle of the night that I'd run out of propane. Not supposed to happen when you're on a regular refil route! Luckily it isn't as cold here as you've had this week.
Ah the thrills of home ownership.
I'd add a suggestion to wrap, but not just insulation.
Get thee to thy nearby hardware (or BigBox such as HomeDepot/Lowes) and get a pipe heater.
Looks like flat extension cord.
You wrap it around "at risk" pipe, then plug in where-ever you can. If you plug it into a "real" extension cord, make sure such cord is "rated" (basically heavy duty) for the load.
Further - if you have other pipes exposed, wrap with insulation. Comes in 3-4ft or longer foam tubes with slit down length, slide over pipes.
When real cold, let faucets drip.
Balmy mid teens here yesterday.
Ciao
Uncle Chip
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