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Offline JohnnyReb

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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2011, 07:04:46 AM »
Quote from: LC EFA on January 25, 2011, 06:59:44 AM
Build an ground isolated mesh cage around fuel tanks and run some mains voltage through it.


Oh it wasn't just fuel oil....my woodshop...junk metal...good parts... the copper pipes from under the old home place... 100' welding leads... 3-4 thousand dollars worth of 3/4" and 1" drive name brand impact sockets etc. etc.....all sorts of hand tools.
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #26 on: January 25, 2011, 07:40:36 AM »
Quote from: compaqxp on January 25, 2011, 06:18:57 AM
After a long night I have more or less fixed the issue. All of the house has water back except the kitchen sink which I'm working on.

What can I do to prevent this in the future?

Depends on what the problem actually was. More insulation??
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #27 on: January 25, 2011, 10:44:04 PM »
Quote from: LC EFA on January 25, 2011, 06:27:16 AM
Move to a more equatorial latitude.



That'll only happen when hell freezes over

Never mind it already has. :)
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2011, 04:34:33 AM »
OK I'll give you some advice although I doubt you will listen since your a lib! I am a HVAC service tech so have lots of experience with these issues.
First and foremost you live in the north right? I gets cold there so have a backup plan cause everything breaks!  Wood Stove, electric and kerosene heaters. I have them all ready to go.
Next you mention you have a basement. PUT THE TANK IN IT! Its been below zero here for days and all I been doing is thawing out oil lines of people that I have been telling for years to get the tank inside or in a heated shed. They never listen!
Then since you won't listen MOVE!
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2011, 04:38:29 AM »
Oh yeah I forgot. That guy with the tank in his truck is most likly the guy who stole your oil!
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2011, 10:01:29 AM »
Get a well heat light to drop down your well, next trip to Home Depot. It will keep the mechanism from freezing. We actually had to do that when we lived in North Carolina!

I had the heat tapes on my pipes in my old house, in the crawl space. They kept them from freezing there, instead they froze in the walls. Stupid builder put the washing machine pipes in a NW facing wall. I kept a space heater plugged in most of the winter to prevent it as much as possible.

If you can figure out where a pipe is frozen and get it before it has burst, I've had neighbors use a hair dryer on them. It slowly melts the block and might keeping them from popping open.

Good luck on the pipes...it's a common occurrence down here, because so many of our builders just don't think it's ever going to get that cold down here....  :thatsright:
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #31 on: January 27, 2011, 06:40:11 PM »
Quote from: debk on January 26, 2011, 10:01:29 AM
Good luck on the pipes...it's a common occurrence down here, because so many of our builders just don't think it's ever going to get that cold down here....  :thatsright:

I was actually going to add, that it really does seem to be more prevalent down south than up here in the bitter north.  I suppose building standards really are different.
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2011, 09:34:44 AM »
Quote from: Gratiot on January 27, 2011, 06:40:11 PM
I was actually going to add, that it really does seem to be more prevalent down south than up here in the bitter north.  I suppose building standards really are different.

You have no idea!!!

When I moved here over 25 years ago, there were no building codes in the county! We found out the hard way, on our brand new house... :bawl: That was the one that I had so many problems with the pipes. The water waste pipe to the street was not big enough, laundry room sink and washing machine pipes were on NW wall, kitchen sink and refrigerator water pipe were on N wall, exterior foundation drains were ABOVE the basement floor, heat pump wasn't large enough for the first floor and basement, thermostat for heat/AC was on the wall of the warmest room in the house due to southern exposure and in front of a window, wires in the walls that went to nothing, and on and on and on. We spent almost 2/3's of the original price 5 yrs later trying to correct all the mistakes. We should have just moved, as it was impossible to recover costs and still have a comparative appreciation, even after 15 more years.

Even in the house I'm in now, that was built 4 years ago, I have 1 toilet on a S wall , and powder room sink and toilet are on W wall.  :thatsright: Both have heated rooms below though, so I guess they will be ok.  :(

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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2011, 02:37:10 PM »
I was gonna say set the house on fire, but if it's the well, that won't work.
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #34 on: February 23, 2011, 03:55:34 PM »
I've seen a frozen pipe problem fixed with a little help from an arc welder hooked up to the kitchen faucet and at the well where it dropped into the floor in the garage.
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #35 on: February 23, 2011, 04:58:12 PM »
Quote from: Randy on February 23, 2011, 03:55:34 PM
I've seen a frozen pipe problem fixed with a little help from an arc welder hooked up to the kitchen faucet and at the well where it dropped into the floor in the garage.

Electricity CAN be one's friend!!  :-)
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #36 on: February 23, 2011, 05:21:55 PM »
Quote from: Randy on February 23, 2011, 03:55:34 PM
I've seen a frozen pipe problem fixed with a little help from an arc welder hooked up to the kitchen faucet and at the well where it dropped into the floor in the garage.

What would happen if some of those water lines were old enough that they had soldered joints?
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2011, 05:49:34 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 23, 2011, 05:21:55 PM
What would happen if some of those water lines were old enough that they had soldered joints?

As long as they didn't get over 400- 500°F, they'd be fine. Most plumbing solder has a much higher melting point than that, around 700°F
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Re: I need some help, frozen pipes anyone?
« Reply #38 on: February 24, 2011, 10:54:28 AM »
You give it 10-20 second bursts of juice so it doesn't really get hot enough to melt anything.
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