The hot water pipe to my kitchen is frozen, but not the cold water pipe.....would it be okay for me to still run my dishwasher, or will it cause a pipe to burst and will the dishwasher still work?
2007-01-30 08:36:00 · 3 answers · asked by ANDREA 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Hot ware pipes accumulate a lot of calcium deposits and this is how it sounds to me when you say "Frozen." How did you come up to know that it is frozen? and do you know at what point the pipe is clogged? My advise to you is to have a plumber to check the entire length of pipe, from your hot water heater to the sink. However, before you get into this kind of expenses, close the hot water valve under the sink and check the hose leading to your sink. Also, while you have the sink hose disconnected, put a bucket under the hot water valve and crack it open to see if water is coming out of it. If not, then you need the plumber to check the entire hot water pipe.
As for using the dishwasher, I would suggest not! you may burn the washer's pump if water is not going to the dishwasher.
Good luck
2007-01-30 08:53:01 · answer #1 · answered by Nikolas S 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm afraid this does not make sense, unless the hot and cold water pipes are really far apart and in different temperature areas. A hot water pipe conducts heat from the boiler/hot water heater, so is not likely to freeze. (Even if the pipe is plastic, the water will have more warmth than cold water.) It may be that you are confusing the two pipes, or they were cross-connected.
How do you know the hot water pipe is frozen? Usually the pipe bursts, and that is the only way to know it is frozen.
If water is coming out of the pipe the dishwasher is connected to (unhook it into a pail or other container to see), you should not have a problem.
2007-01-30 08:48:25 · answer #2 · answered by thylawyer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you run your dishwasher, the only thing that will happen is you won't have any water in it. Dishwashers use hot water only. Using, if you can-which you say you can't, will not hurt the pipes. You just won't get any water from it. One homework method to thaw out the hot water pipe is (if your basement is unfinished,) to use a hair blower and aim it towards the hot water pipe. I would suspect that the closer to the outside of the house the pipe is the more chance it is frozen there. If you do get it thawed, let the water trickle out for a while. This will unfreeze any other parts of the pipe you don't get to.
2007-01-30 08:46:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋