how to thaw out a sluice pipe

Rkh · Mar 8, 2014

Tried thawing a solid frozen driveway sluice pipe with 75,000btu kerosene heater for a couple hrs, but still frozen solid. Any ideas?

Anonymous-0 · Mar 8, 2014

Do you mean a culvert? If it's steel get a propane weed burner. They will shoot a big flame directly on the ice.

bison · Mar 9, 2014

In an other month it will be thawing by itself,..why fight it and spend money.?

JOHNNYfromMI · Mar 9, 2014

If you need to get a hole thru a frozen solid culvert hook the garden hose to a length of steel pipe and working fron the outflo end jet a hole throuh the ice

steve in wi · Mar 9, 2014

We use a hot water pressure washer with a small nozzle on a 3/8 hose. Once you get a small hole the water will start flowing and make it bigger. Its a special nozzle no bigger than a shot gun casing.It has one hole fforward and four backwards to jet it thru the pipe.

Don-Wi · Mar 9, 2014

To prevent flooding and water damage.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Russ from MN · Mar 9, 2014

What the ell is a sluice pipe? If it's a pipe under ground a hot water hose with a special tip works best, like someone else described. The brand that we used to use was called a go-devil. Cold water will also work, it just takes a little longer.

dpendzic · Mar 9, 2014

dump a bunch of road salt on the inlet end--it will eventually melt its way thru---to speed it up bring to a boil a gallon of antifreeze and dump that in to--have used that for frozen plastic drain pipes in my house

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