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re: Outside water drip froze into solid ice
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:31 am to bigberg2000
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:31 am to bigberg2000
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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.
It depends on your house situation. If it's raised, covering the faucet won't help the pressure issue that caused a pipe to burst as frozen water expands. If you're on a slab, covering your faucet should be fine.
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:35 am to mctiger1985
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You drip inside to relieve the pressure on the outside frozen pipes.
If a pipe freezes, the expansion goes in both directions. If you freeze 10 feet from the he outside faucet, and the faucet is closed, you're going to have an issue. Ideally you drip every faucet you can get ahold of if you're in a raised house with uninsulated pipes.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:10 am to glorymanutdtiger
My house is elevated, no insulation, no problems. I ran all faucets at a hard trickle, inside and out, hot water and cold.
If your pipes freeze, fully open all faucets. This will give room for the water to expand as it thaws. Good luck.
If your pipes freeze, fully open all faucets. This will give room for the water to expand as it thaws. Good luck.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:15 am to mofungoo
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:17 am to tgrbaitn08
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I’ve got half my house with running hot and cold water and the other half with nothing. WTF??
Then not all of your pipes are frozen. It's only the ones that connect to the faucets that don't work. This isn't rocket science.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:22 am to VABuckeye
I called my FIL and he told me to take a bucket of water and pour over the faucets. It worked. My outside faucet is running.
All you guys had to is advice a fellow member instead of ridicule.
All you guys had to is advice a fellow member instead of ridicule.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:27 am to glorymanutdtiger
Outside faucets.
Up here we have a shutoff valve that is accessible on the inside of the house. To winterize you close the valve and open the spigot to drain the part of the line that can freeze.
You can also install frost proof outside spigots.
Up here we have a shutoff valve that is accessible on the inside of the house. To winterize you close the valve and open the spigot to drain the part of the line that can freeze.
You can also install frost proof outside spigots.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:28 am to glorymanutdtiger
For a hard freeze that bucket of water wouldn't have done a damn thing. Fortunately for you it sounds like you just had a little blockage.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:30 am to glorymanutdtiger
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had to is advice a fellow member
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:31 am to glorymanutdtiger
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This is not a troll. I'm from south east asia and we have none of this winter stuff. What do you experts suggest without trolling
Without trolling? This is the OT.
ALWAYS TROLL.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:37 am to glorymanutdtiger
This is Hueng Soro's alter.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:39 am to mofungoo
quote:huh
This will give room for the water to expand as it thaws
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:39 am to mofungoo
I keep a couple heat lamps under my house located under my kitchen and bathroom along with each outside faucet wrapped with a strand of Christmas lights and covered with a small piece of tarp.....no problems.
I Just plug in two outside extension cords when it get below 28 and I’m done. Don’t have to leave anything dripping or anything.
I Just plug in two outside extension cords when it get below 28 and I’m done. Don’t have to leave anything dripping or anything.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:44 am to Team Alpha Beast
I woke up at 5 this morning and I heard ice coming out of my kitchen sink. Then the water stopped with the spigot open, it took 5 minutes of blowdrying underneath the sink to thaw out the line, but my level of panic at the time was pretty prettty prettty high.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:48 am to glorymanutdtiger
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I left water dripping outside the house and the drip froze into solid ice.
Dear Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:06 am to glorymanutdtiger
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On the outside you mean? I have one wrapped and that froze too
quod erat demonstrandum
Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:15 am to glorymanutdtiger
I will share an ancient Chinese secret.
Urinate on it. Won't melt it much, but at twilight, it'll shine like spun gold.
You're welcome.
Urinate on it. Won't melt it much, but at twilight, it'll shine like spun gold.
You're welcome.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 8:38 pm to LSUJML
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Cabinet under kitchen sink Leaving it open allows warmer air to circulate We also left outside faucet dripping into a bucket
Yeah but the pipes that are frozen are likely near the outside walls of your home. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see how opening a cabinet will help unless you're pumping in some serious heat through holes into the walls.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:10 pm to slackster
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Ideally you drip every faucet you can get ahold of if you're in a raised house with uninsulated pipes.
that's my situation and that's what I did. no problem so far.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 9:15 pm to madmaxvol
Sillcocks are the shite. Of course they don't work if you leave the spigot open.
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