I now have cold water coming from 2 of my faucets ( 1 upstairs and 1 downstairs ). I still don't have cold water coming to my downstairs kitchen ( the one that is working downstairs looks to be on the same line as my kitchen faucet ). Should I still worry about line freeze up or should I still give it time to unfreeze? Any help would be wonderful!
2007-02-05 01:30:38 · 10 answers · asked by nightwish1975 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
I now have running water. How long should I let the tap run? I am late to work because of this.
2007-02-05 02:39:57 · update #1
The line is frozen to the faucet in the kitchen. Open the faucet slightly and then locate the spot where it is likely frozen (close to an exterior wall), you'll be able to feel the really cold pipe. Take your hair dryer or a propane torch (being very careful near any combustible surface) and warm the line. It won't take long if it's a small ice plug. After you get it thawed make sure there is a way warm air can circulate in the cold area. You could maybe add a little insulation in that spot. If nothing else you can wrap the line with a towel.
Get it thawed quickly though before the pipe splits from expansion as the ice plug grows.
2007-02-05 01:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by AK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
open the cabinet under the sink to get some warm air under there. If its on an outside wall, it very well could be froze, if it is frozen, it will burst. Get to the bottom of the problem before you have a real problem with water damage.
If You have a sink or water lines running in an outside wall, you should leave the cabinet open & leave the sink trickle so that there is water moving through the pipes, this will keep it from freezing.
2007-02-05 01:38:17 · answer #2 · answered by batmango66 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try turning your heat up, but WATCH those pipes. When they thaw out, there may be a busted one somewhere. Make sure you know where the shut off is. You could try calling a plumber, but there isn't a whole lot they can do until they thaw and there is a bust, so save your money until you have to spend it. Think yourself luck you have any water, our stool froze up last night! Now, there's a bummer!
Additional thought, if your afraid it will happen again, you can leave your faucet on a slow drip and it shouldn't do it again.
2007-02-05 01:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by cowboys21angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Julie; buy a 21-foot length of: half-inch, 'B.S.P.-threaded', Galvanised pipe.
Carry it home from the hardware store by simply tying it under yo' car
-to the bumpers: too easy! When you get it home, stuff it up
across the ceiling in yo' house; then sit-down, -at the table,
drink one coffee-with-a Vitamin B (to really 'nut-it out'). Do NOT be deterred,
at this seemingly 'difficult' stage.. for you are one-third already, completed.
Just scribble a drawing OF the general existing system, and roar-back
into town for the correct list of fittings.. (but be sure to add-in, (perhaps, 2)
12-feet sections of 'garden-hose', plus -normal- hose-ends-& fittings,
and you CAN connect it up -while you leave your "main" tap-in-the ground:
the 'meter': one-for that house-block.. "off". Turn it 'on' when connected;
and "Bob's ya' Uncle!" : hey PRESTO! H-2. 0 -where yo' want it!
P.S: It is a good chance to give yourselves a better sink-tap:
something modern.. (-as, any way you're likely to require
a trendy, brass sink tap: an 'antique one', perhaps).
If any 'clattering' / noises.. IN the ceiling, stuff a pair
of worn-out jeans under the new galvanised pipe.
(Oh, yeah! Just turn it 'full-on' -don-the-drain, to rid the new plumbing
of that 'zinc' taste (even though, zinc-in your H-2.O..
IS good at shortening any colds, in the family!) Good Luck!
P.S: Remenber with houses: "ONE step @ a time". -That's it!
2007-02-05 02:30:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like that water line is frozen
2016-03-29 05:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should double check your pipes and make sure that the freezing didn't burst one of them, if it did you are in a little trouble...... go in your basement, and look and listen for leaking pipes..... My pipe froze once, and it burst a pipe under my kitchen, if I didn't find it the whole basement would have flooded, and I would have been screwed
2007-02-05 02:52:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah just give it time to unfreeze, try not to run water or the pipe may burst.
2007-02-05 01:35:12 · answer #7 · answered by pooh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its probably frozen,we use to let are faucets run real slow went it was freezing out side
2007-02-05 01:39:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cold water line is frozen, loacte the frozen area and insure it is insulated well. can thaw it with a hair dryer.
2007-02-05 01:34:30 · answer #9 · answered by ralphers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shift kitchen upstairs or downstairs
2007-02-05 01:33:08 · answer #10 · answered by shrey 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋