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 Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 06:59 PM
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TexDawg
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My hot water heater froze in the attic, no hot water. Hoping the power outages have stopped and it will thaw
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
[Re: uncle_bagster]
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02/15/21 10:39 PM
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I did everything they say, and still my washing machine froze up in my garage. I'm guessing it's the feed line running along the bottom of the north-facing wall. All I know to do is wait until she thaws and breaks, and then fix. If you have a dryer pull the vent line and run the dryer. I did this when I had water heater and washer dryer in garage.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 10:48 PM
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hopalong
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I did everything they say, and still my washing machine froze up in my garage. I'm guessing it's the feed line running along the bottom of the north-facing wall. All I know to do is wait until she thaws and breaks, and then fix. If you have a dryer pull the vent line and run the dryer. I did this when I had water heater and washer dryer in garage.  I had to do that when I lost a furnace in a smaller house, electric dryer and took 3 months to pay off the dam bill but hey, no water froze at least. you have to throw a wet towel in and keep re wetting it or the dryer shuts off too fast to do much good.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 11:06 PM
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So I'm on a slab and the only water on an exterior wall is our bathroom sinks. I dripped the hot water on them last night, but not the cold. The cold line is froze up. Wife will have to brush her teeth using hot water. She'll squeeze from the middle and yell at me for it.
Can't think of anything I can do to unfreeze the cold lines except possibly warm the house. Think running cold water in other sinks will make some flow hit the line in the bathroom? Always drip the cold line.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 11:10 PM
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bassfishinglawyer
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Had a heater under an upstairs bathroom sink all day and night - still froze up. Tried a blow dryer for 3 hours (!!!!) to no avail. It is the only one we have trouble with, but it is over an open porch.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 11:17 PM
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So I'm on a slab and the only water on an exterior wall is our bathroom sinks. I dripped the hot water on them last night, but not the cold. The cold line is froze up. Wife will have to brush her teeth using hot water. She'll squeeze from the middle and yell at me for it.
Can't think of anything I can do to unfreeze the cold lines except possibly warm the house. Think running cold water in other sinks will make some flow hit the line in the bathroom? Always drip the cold line. Well now you tell me!   The line is blocked somewhere upstream of the bathroom in the garage. I've got a space heater out there, but not sure it is doing any good at all. I'm going to try running the cars for a bit and letting a couple hot engine blocks warm up the garage. See if that works.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 11:29 PM
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206champion
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We have not had any power since 5.30ish this morning, no telling what’s froze up and we are on a well also.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/15/21 11:39 PM
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hopalong
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already have a plumber coming out next monday, don't see any point before then with it getting even colder over the next 2 or 3 days.
said all they are taking right now is emergency calls, they are out of bonham.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/16/21 12:12 AM
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So I'm on a slab and the only water on an exterior wall is our bathroom sinks. I dripped the hot water on them last night, but not the cold. The cold line is froze up. Wife will have to brush her teeth using hot water. She'll squeeze from the middle and yell at me for it.
Can't think of anything I can do to unfreeze the cold lines except possibly warm the house. Think running cold water in other sinks will make some flow hit the line in the bathroom? She can always did her tooth brush in the toilet.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
[Re: TexDawg]
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02/16/21 01:04 AM
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My hot water heater froze in the attic, no hot water. Hoping the power outages have stopped and it will thaw I got the cold water thawed coming into the house but the hot water is froze. It is probably at the Tankless Water Heater line somewhere. I have a light on the fittings under there hoping it will thaw...but I have my doubts of it thawing before Thursday. 
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/16/21 01:09 AM
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senko9S
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Friday will be a bad day for many
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
[Re: senko9S]
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02/16/21 01:13 AM
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Friday will be a bad day for many Yep ,the fire dept. will be answering water flow alarms for two to four days!
I would agree with you , but then we would both be WRONG !!!!!
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
[Re: BJH ( JUST JIGGING)]
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02/16/21 01:30 AM
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Friday will be a bad day for many Yep ,the fire dept. will be answering water flow alarms for two to four days! We were just talking about that. Them boys on C shift Friday are gonna run a bunch of those. We expect to break t he 1200 call mark in 24hrs at midnight. Its been crazy. Several structure fires, tons of EMS and the rest were alarms etc.
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
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02/16/21 01:37 AM
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plumbcrazy
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I'm busy as hell right now all I'm doing is turning the water off see you tomorrow Wednesday Thursday maybe Friday this is going to be really bad
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Re: Oops - frozen pipes
[Re: senko9S]
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02/16/21 02:27 AM
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Friday will be a bad day for many Can I get my plumbers license on line before then?
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