I am at my parents' house for christmas. The water supply pipe is
frozen, somewhere underground and we have no water. This is putting
rather a crimp on things.
Is there a well-known solution to this problem? It is a somewhat
unusual supply, being a private, communal supply fed from a spring
into
Ouch! If the plastic is pvc then it is toast ... cracks/splits really
easily when cold. I have way too much experience with pvc as irrigation
pipe. If it is polyethylene or cpvc then I have no experience.
I used one inch Cu for pressure tank to house. It is only two feet deep
so when the mins
Resistive heat tapes are usually OK. They are thermostatically controlled.
but do be sfe...
... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:45 PM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote:
I am at my parents' house for christmas. The water
andy pugh wrote:
I am at my parents' house for christmas. The water supply pipe is
frozen, somewhere underground and we have no water. This is putting
rather a crimp on things.
Is there a well-known solution to this problem? It is a somewhat
unusual supply, being a private, communal supply
I have heard of people pushing a small diameter plastic tube connected
to a steam generator through the pipe .
On 12/25/2010 04:45 PM, andy pugh wrote:
I am at my parents' house for christmas. The water supply pipe is
frozen, somewhere underground and we have no water. This is putting
rather
I have a similar system. After having to find a convenient tree in the
forest behind which to hide (if you get my meaning) in the dark frozen cold
early AM on one occasion I bit the bullet and put in a 1 1/2 poly pipe
burried deeply with a tracer wire. The problem I had was caused by a road
On 25 December 2010 22:38, dave dengv...@charter.net wrote:
Ouch! If the plastic is pvc then it is toast ... cracks/splits really
easily when cold. I have way too much experience with pvc as irrigation
pipe. If it is polyethylene or cpvc then I have no experience.
It's HDPE, which should be
On 25 December 2010 23:25, R.L. Wurdack di...@nwlink.com wrote:
The problem I had was caused by a road
regrading.
...
Likely it is: 1. close to the cistern, 2. close to the house or
pumphouse, or 3. Where the terrain has changed most recently from grading
etc.
This is our guess, the track
If helping folks with frozen pipes on the EMC group doesn't show the Christmas
spirit, I don't know what does!
May we all find solutions together in this new year. Best wishes to all.
Bruce
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From: andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com
andy, maybe it's a blind shot, but you could try to boil some water and,
after having opened all the pipes, try to spray some with a painting
compressor, or with a hand spray (those for gardening..) here i had a
big problem, in country side some days ago, but that's because the main
pipe line is
Hi Andy;
If you have access to wire tracer simular to those used by telephone and
electrical workers; you can disconnect the water back at the source, run a
clean cable (or wire) down the pipe; hook the signal generator to it and
trace
the pipe to your shallow place. If you set the signal
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