Master Bathroom. Cold water seems to be starting to run faster. However Hot water is slowly flowing but there is NO hot/warm water coming out. Water heating is working, hot water2nd bath and kitchen works fine. Just the furthest from the source. SO, if water is coming out of hot water faucet but cold, what is that indicating? If it was burst, there would be NO flow, will the hot water eventually start flowing? We are running those constantly now.

You ran your faucet on hot and cold and it freeze break? That is almost impossible

If it burst you would hear it and see water all over the place.

So well said!

well, add my trailer here at fork to the no water list.

wrapped, heat tape full length and cabinets open with electric radiator in front and still froze on me last night.

Have you tried to pea on it?

This, I drip all of them. And hot side will freeze first if you don't usually.

My problem seems to be all set now. Learned quite a few things about this ( New to me Home ). Thanks for all the assists ..

What do you guys do with the washer and dryer faucets? Anyone ever had them to freeze up?

not much you can do with them

Maybe try a Hair dryer, just hold the heat on it for a while. Ya got some pretty smart guys in here, I'm sure you'll get a better answer then a HAIR DRYER, but worth a shot.

What I did in February 2021 when it was stupid cold, I cut my hoses and let them drain into the stand pipe

Mine are on the outside wall on the north facing side.

Physics teacher taught me this way back in the day. It's one of those phenomenons that he explained like this, once water starts changing temps it can accelerate. If you can take the same two size containers, one with hot water tap and one with cold water tap, put em both in the freezer at the same time and the hot water one will freeze first.

hot is not as dense as cold, easier to freeze and yes it will freeze first.

Another option...get you a electric radiant heater (only an example) and pull out the washer a couple of feet. Set your radiant heater on low and aim it towards the wall that houses the plumbing. That way your warming up just that centralized location and not an entire room. The insulation is (should be) on the back side of the pipes, so you're keeping your side of the wall warmer than the cold side. The plug your washer uses is a 20 amp outlet, so it should easily handle that heater even on hi. The heater that is linked, has a 250 watt option (low) which should be more than enough warmth to keep that wall warm for most of our winter problems.

Here's what we did for the apt complexes I worked at. Works most of the time, until you lose electric...then your jacked.

Under sinks, a clamp on light fixture with a 75 or 100 watt incandescent (old school) light bulb. Close the doors to create a heat tent under the sinks. Some times we'd drip them as well, depending on how cold it was going to be. You can also use this in the laundry area, but it's not nearly as efficient.


We put the radiant heater in the vacant laundries because they sit on the floor and the heat rises up the wall, keeping everything toasty. Use caution, you can scorch your wall using to much heat! Just keep it from freezing is all you need.

In smaller bathrooms, we would put a small Electric Space Heater and close the door to create a hot room and leave the cabinet doors open so heat can get in there. This warms up the space to keep the entire plumbing system in the walls warmer than the freezing temps outside. It doesn't have to be HOT, just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. For the most part, our ideal temp was 56-60 degrees to combat the cold outside temps.

My old boss was an engineer who owned several apt complexes. When you're footing the bill for hundreds of empty units and trying to keep the pipes from bursting, you want to do it in the cheapest and most efficient way possible. This is the best we found. He would make us check temps through out the nights and adjust as needed according to their data. That was a bunch of BS, but for the most part, it kept everything from bursting. Winter storm Uri was a whole different beast. Hope this helps and remember it for the freezes to come. The only times this DIDN'T work, was when we lost power or the heater quit working. In my 12 yrs there, I lost 2 pipes in 2 bathrooms, because the heaters quit working.