Water is thawed

Brendon Warren · Feb 8, 2015

Finally. I've been four days without. I took one of those little water feature pumps and 140ft of 1/4" plastic tubing and kept pumping hot water down the waterline. I kept heating water on the stove lots of trips up and down the stairs but four hours and twenty gallons of water later she busted loose. I had to make a mad dash across the yard to the barn to shut the pump off but its only -16 with the wind chill.What a relief.

circus · Feb 9, 2015

Last winter the inlet on the septic tank iced shut. Made for interesting moments, I tell you.

Brendon Warren · Feb 9, 2015

I'm hoping I don't have that problem next from leaving the water trickling.

Bret4207 · Feb 9, 2015

Jeeze Brendon, I wish I'd known. I have a set up all prepared for that for my daughters place. A Coleman camp stove, BIG stock pot, one of those drill driven pumps and a bunch of 3/8" dishwasher hose. Works slick.

This weather stinks.

Brendon Warren · Feb 9, 2015

Thanks Brett. If there is a next time I'm going to
have a turkey fryer or something to heat the water.
I've been here fifteen years and have never had it
bother underground before.

showcrop · Feb 9, 2015

I had to run the water to my shop only two feet down due to ledge, under a place that I have to keep plowed. I put sheets of 2 inch foam board insulation over the sand that the pipe is bedded in.

TimV · Feb 9, 2015

I did have that happen once already during this last cold snap due to a faucet dripping enough to slowly ice up the grey-water pipe over the course of a night of 20 below. Had to do similar to what you did to unthaw it, though from past experience with similar troubles I have a jug with a hose connected to the bottom already rigged up. Still had to make a number of trips with hot water to get enough to unthaw it, but I did manage. Until I could get the faucet fixed, I let it drip into a pail overnight. Gonna be interesting--Tug Hill and the surrounding area might see 40 below this weekend--that'll freeze a LOT of pipes!

JMS/.MN · Feb 9, 2015

You can do the same with cold water....just takes longer. BTDT on the other farm with no heat available. I ran a hose across the yard, from well to barn, stuck it down the waterer inlet pipe. Inlet was too close to outside wall, so I banked the barn with dirt the next summer. End of problem.

showcrop · Feb 9, 2015

(quoted from post at 04:39:46 02/09/15) I'm hoping I don't have that problem next from leaving the water trickling.

Brandon, Here is something that may work for you. If you have water in two buildings from the same well, and if you have a water line running between them, and if in the barn you have a place where you could put a bladder tank where it wouldn' freeze, then you would have a little water running back and forth through the water line in between. This would make it harder for the water to freeze.

Leroy · Feb 9, 2015

Unthaw means to refreeze or freeze, thaw means to get workable. Wife used to say unthaw all the time meaning to thaw out.

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