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re: Outside water drip froze into solid ice
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:17 am to CypressTrout10
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:17 am to CypressTrout10
What did opening the cabinets help?
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:18 am to glorymanutdtiger
man... you dont drip the outside spigots 
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:18 am to TH03
Opening cabinets allowed warm conditioned air around the pipes
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:19 am to GRIZZ
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How I'm curious to know how opening the cabinets would help?
In theory the warm air from your heater would provide the pipes with some heat, which would in turn conduct up the copper lines. Now whether it actually makes that much of a difference.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:19 am to TypoKnig
I've never heard that.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:19 am to gmrkr5
If you don't want them to split open you do.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:19 am to GRIZZ
quote:
How I'm curious to know how opening the cabinets would help?
Cabinet under kitchen sink
Leaving it open allows warmer air to circulate
We also left outside faucet dripping into a bucket
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:19 am to TH03
This is a new thing that I 1st heard this year. They say it allows the warm are from your heater get in there. I can’t see it having much of an affect.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:20 am to tgrbaitn08
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Herro
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:22 am to bigberg2000
Not every house has good insulation around pipes coming in house. Youd be amazed how cold the inside of my cabinets get.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:24 am to jdeval1
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why did you drip the outside faucet?
Is this a serious question? It can bust just like any other pipe than can freeze.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:25 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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If you don't want them to split open you do.
You'd swear this place has the critical thinking skills of a 4 year old. If you're dripping an inside faucet, it makes logical sense to drip the outside faucet too.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:26 am to glorymanutdtiger
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Ok. This is not a troll. I'm from south east asia
“So are you Chinese or Japanese?”
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 8:27 am
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:27 am to glorymanutdtiger
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Do i just wait and let it thaw?
If you can warm it with a blow dryer or something similar, it wouldn't hurt. Leave the faucet open and start there working your way back up the pipes.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:28 am to slackster
If I have hot water, I use a bowl of hot water and a rag. Be prepared to freeze your nuts off.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:29 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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If I have hot water, I use a bowl of hot water and a rag. Be prepared to freeze your nuts off.
Yeah, I've got frozen pipes and I was outside checking them earlier. It's a bitch.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:29 am to slackster
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You'd swear this place has the critical thinking skills of a 4 year old. If you're dripping an inside faucet, it makes logical sense to drip the outside faucet too.
Idk. I was always told to drip inside and cover outside. Just seems like the outside would just immediately freeze and just make things worse.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:30 am to slackster
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If you're dripping an inside faucet, it makes logical sense to drip the outside faucet too
You drip inside to relieve the pressure on the outside frozen pipes.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:30 am to slackster
I’ve got half my house with running hot and cold water and the other half with nothing. WTF??
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:30 am to slackster
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Yeah, I've got frozen pipes and I was outside checking them earlier. It's a bitch.
Had to poo when I made it to work this AM. The toilet in my shop bathroom was completely iced over.
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