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The cold water pipes in my master bath seem to be frozen. The bathroom sits above an unheated (but insulated) 2 car garage. This is a new house and our first winter in it. The temp last night got down in the single digits and the windchill was sub zero. Is there anything I can do to get them working - the pipes are in the floor and wall where I can't get to them.

2007-02-04 08:12:36 · 2 answers · asked by janeenie 1 in Home & Garden Maintenance & Repairs

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first, turn the water on, even if the pipes are frozen, when they thaw, even a little the flow of water will help thaw them more an will give room if they expanded. Next you have to warm the garage, heaters or whatever else you have, even leaving the door into the house from the garage will help.
Heat the house up, turn up the heat, everything will help warm up all the pipes.

2007-02-04 09:03:00 · answer #1 · answered by Jim 3 · 0 0

This is difficult as you cant get directly to the pipes involved or you could use a heat gun or hair dryer. The best you can probably do is to heat the garage up and since heat rises, but both will actaully take some time to do, you mat still have to cut the ceiling in the garage to get to the pipes anyway. But as long as the garage remains cold nothing is really going to help. You can get a portable electric heater to heat the garage but as with all portable heaters please be careful. Good luck and remember to contact the plumber really early as theyre probably going to be awful busy with the cold weather youre experiencing up north.

2007-02-04 17:07:25 · answer #2 · answered by Arthur W 7 · 0 0

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