My motherf@#$cking pipes are frozen...

[TOhioLiberal]

...ask me anything. I'll get around to answering in between trips to check on the thawing process. :grr: :banghead:

[TOhioLiberal]

1. What no one cares?

No commiseration, no 'how come you didn't leave the water drip, you ninny?'




























Thanks anyway.

[leftofthedial]

2. bummer

how are you thawing them to keep them from breaking?

[TOhioLiberal]

4. I have the oven on...

...with the door open, and a little box heater (ceramic, I think) on the crucial joint.

[leftofthedial]

18. good motherf@#$cking luck

next time, leave the water on just a drip

[orleans]

23. try a hair dryer? i heard that the fire department was helping

was helping a woman thaw out her pipes today

(at least i think they said it was the fire department)
and they were using a hair dryer

i've also heard that it isn't good to try and heat the house with an open oven (i'm not sure why that is but maybe turn the oven off)

[SPKrazy]

3. How Are You Rethawing them?

that's a biotch TOL

are they all frozen?

do you have a crawl space or a slab foundation?

:shrug:

[TOhioLiberal]

6. All frozen...

...maybe. The water line come in under the kitchen sink. It splits from there to the water heater and to the bathroom upstairs. No water coming from any source, which leads me to believe that the frozen part is between the water meter and the first split.

It's a crawlspace. No basement.

[swag]

5. I'm glad they haven't exploded on you.

I had pipes blow out on me one year, flooded basement. Great stuff!

Best wishes. I'm sure you will get a lot of advice.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear TOhioLiberal........

No questions, sweetie..........

Just ........:hug:

I'm sorry you have to deal with this awful situation.......

[TOhioLiberal]

9. I say this every winter...

...before next winter, I'm moving somewhere warm. I hate Ohio in winter.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. It's a lot warmer in California, sweetie!

Of course, it's a lot more expensive to live here, too!

:pals:

[TOhioLiberal]

17. it's always something...

...I'll find somewhere warm one of these days.

[ThomCat]

8. I hope you get them thawed without too much of a hassle.

Burst pipes would really suck. :(

[TOhioLiberal]

12. We've cracked a few...

...but they were old, and probably already cracking. It ain't fun.

[ThomCat]

14. Can you replace them yourself

or do you need to find a plumber?

You know damned well they've jacked up their rates during the freezing weather. x(

[TOhioLiberal]

16. DH replaced the cracked ones...

...I just hope it's not frozen under the house.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Oh, that's one thing that I don't miss about living in a colder climate.

I lived in a place with cheap rent and a landlord who did his own repairs, usually when he was two sheets to the wind. The cold water supply pipe to the kitchen would freeze up any time the mercury went below 20 degrees. The hot water pipe would freeze if it got down to zero. Never had a burst pipe though. I propped the kitchen cabinet doors open for the winter months.

Good luck with your thawing.

[RebelOne]

26. You don't have to live in a colder climate for your pipes to freeze.

I live in North Georgia and have had my pipes freeze when the temperature went into the teens. My house is a mobile home, so I was able to put a space heater under the house to thaw them out.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

11. Next time remember to let the water trickle from the faucets

Moving water won't freeze. It only has to be a steady drip to work.

[Hissyspit]

13. I was about to say. My pipes are trickling right now.

No, seriously. I have a slight trickle on an outside faucet, and a thin steady stream on the bathroom faucet. It got down to 18 degrees here in NC last night. It does help.

[Broken_Hero]

19. sorry, I hope they unfreeze, without complication...

When the icestorms went through SW Missouri in mid Jan, we had ours frozen, for roughly 6 days...it was a pain. Luckily, the unfroze without complication.

[texanwitch]

20. I have used a heating pad to thraw out pipes.

Worked very well.

[Broken_Hero]

22. We used

a propane torch/sterno at first...then I got a 20dollar pipe warmer thingamajig from the store....but then the power went out, so that pipe warmer was for nothing. Basically used propane torch/sterno cans, and at times...hand warmers.

[BlueIris]

21. Ohhhhh, that sucks.

I feel for you, man.

[VenusRising]

24. It got really cold really fast in Ohio.

I have to remind myself to leave my faucets on everytime I use one. I hope you recover quickly.

:hug:

[struggle4progress]

25. I know a trick that might defrost them if you can do it without electrocuting yourself ..

.. or burning your house down.

I read about in a science book from the 1890s.

The ... wait ... (what? oh) ... ya know ... my lawyer might not like it if I post this ... nevva mind ...

[entanglement]

27. Call Ted Stevens, he knows all about tubes and pipes

:rofl: