That sucks... Thawing water line...

Anonymous-0 · Feb 20, 2012

Got impatient waiting on the little piece of line to thaw under the driveway. Figured to try the welder idea. No long leads but found enough heavy gauge wire I thought might work. Got in the utility room in the house, moved/disconnected the washer/dryer covering my access hole, get all opened up and ready to burn the place down, and the line is black plastic......... Guess I'm back to waiting :roll:

Anonymous-0 · Feb 20, 2012

OH GOODIE !

RayP(MI) · Feb 20, 2012

Can you get a small plastic tube down the line, push warm water down the tube to the frozen part?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 20, 2012

(quoted from post at 07:02:21 02/20/12) Can you get a small plastic tube down the line, push warm water down the tube to the frozen part?

Sure I could but not that desperate yet. Just wait it out and make sure it don't happen next year..... Kinda glad I couldn't use the welder trick, no tellin what I'da tore up.....

Bob UT · Feb 20, 2012

Have a pressure washer?
I hooked up a long pex type tubing to mine, used hot water, and blasted through in a few minutes !
Might not work if ya have too many bends or elbows.
Of course it makes a mess, but it's slicker than...well, no more frozen line

Anonymous-0 · Feb 20, 2012

Ive posted this already, done it myself.Steamers are used here to thaw plastic line.Ive thawed a frozen sewer line by pumping cold water against the frozen plug.It seems that fellows who dont know nuthin or even suspect nuthin dont beleive you when you tell them how to fix a problem.

rod in nebraska · Feb 20, 2012

go find some concrete blankets, i think thats what they are called, thick blanket you can lay on the ground to insulate out the cold and thaw out from underneath, talk to someone who works with concrete

Anonymous-0 · Feb 21, 2012

(quoted from post at 17:31:05 02/20/12) Ive posted this already, done it myself.Steamers are used here to thaw plastic line.Ive thawed a frozen sewer line by pumping cold water against the frozen plug.It seems that fellows who dont know nuthin or even suspect nuthin dont beleive you when you tell them how to fix a problem.

Not that I wasn't paying attention to you, just that the only way I can shut off the feed to this line shuts off everything else also. Leaving no water to squirt.... That'll be changed after this thaw and there will be a backup frostfree water source in place for next year.....

I'll ask about the blankets shortly, got a few places close by.

Dave

mkirsch · Feb 21, 2012

Laying concrete blankets over the frozen pipe won't help to thaw the pipe at this point. Since you're depending on warmer weather and sunshine to thaw the pipe, then it will only SLOW the process.

Blankets make you warmer by trapping the heat your body produces. They trap cold every bit as well as they trap heat.

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