burst pipes anyone?

[faithhealer]

no burst pipe yet that I've found but I don't have any running water at all due to a suspected frozen mains water pipe. heating has been on whilst we've been away but now I'm wondering whether we should have left a tap trickling 🙁

NO Liz, water would have frozen in your drain pipe and backed up until it filled your sink/basin and then overflowed! Lots of boiler problems are due to the condensing pipe trickling water and freezing up

 

[Deleted member 9966]

NO Liz, water would have frozen in your drain pipe and backed up until it filled your sink/basin and then overflowed! Lots of boiler problems are due to the condensing pipe trickling water and freezing up

thanks John. I guess I'll be sitting on the kitchen floor aiming the hairdryer then :lol:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

we're still without mains water. can't get hold of Barratts because they're on Christmas vacation, but it's suspected that the mains water pipe is not deep enough.

hairdryer, hot water bottle and even the car running on the drive over where we suspect the mains water pipe to be located.

 

[faithhealer]

just you Liz or are they others, should be 750mm deep for reference later. Can you ring water board and ask as they are resonsible up to your property border

 

[Deleted member 9966]

just us John. nextdoor neighbours have flowing water. just speaking to the water authority now. there's water in the little inspection hole for the street based water stoptap but nothing is bubbling or overflowing. the water authority are sending someone out to inspect as they would have expected some water flow after 12 hours of defrosting and the current temperatures.

got the washing machine engineer coming out to sort the brand new washing machine out soon because that's broken too. no way of testing it though without water flow.

 

[Scott]

Liz where the water main comes up through the floor its usually run in a conduit, for the age of your place it should be blue plastic coming out of the floor. Its not uncommon for it to freeze neear the floor level so its possible it is deep enough but has just frozen at the top. If you can get to it you could pour a kettle of hot water down between the pipe and conduit.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

right, the kickboard is off and I can see the main blue plastic water pipe which comes to the stop tap. where it goes into the floor, it's lagged with a grey foam pipe cover and then it sits in the middle of a brown waste pipe where it goes into the floor.

Am I ok to pour water into the brown waste pipe? where does the water go?

 

[faithhealer]

right, the kickboard is off and I can see the main blue plastic water pipe which comes to the stop tap. where it goes into the floor, it's lagged with a grey foam pipe cover and then it sits in the middle of a brown waste pipe where it goes into the floor.

Am I ok to pour water into the brown waste pipe? where does the water go?

I would use the hair dryer on that area a bit longer Liz. Never tried the 'water', bit before

 

[david campbell]

was round seeing the x mrs 2 days before xmas,sitting having a chat when the main inlet pipe in the loft went,dozy git had apparently stayed at her mums for 3 days and forgot to set the heating:mad2:?i've got the spark to meet today so he can make sure the house is safe to be dried out. at least me an my mates will get some good insurance work out of it as the house is a disaster! we split up for 4 weeks an she wrecks the house......lol:lol:

 

[tfs]

same here, two were systems I fitted with isolator valves with instructions to turn off and drain in winter......

typical isnt it