Pipes Froze UPDATE

"Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!" (theduckduck) 01/31/2019 at 11:05 • Filed to: fuck its gonna get cold

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UPDATE: still no water. We are waiting for Sunday and hopefully the 40 degree weather thaws whatever froze. No burst pipes. I have included photos below on why most solutions won’t fix my problem.

No water at my house today. Forgot to keep a faucet open last night. Fuck this. About to make a water run.

My house is not normal do I don’t have normal solutions to most problems. I thank everyone for their suggestions and stories but here is a side view of my house that will give you an idea why my situation is not normal.

This column is super insulated because the water to the house and all the drain lines out are inside of it. I checked it yesterday and it was super warm. So either it froze in the ground or who knows where.

#StiltHouseProblems

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 14:00

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I suggest lighting a fire in your crawl space.

razorbeamteam > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 14:06

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Tough luck man. That happened to me last year on New Years. I’ve had my faucets on a healthy trickle for 24 hours now.  

Tristan > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 14:07

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Time to bring the Knipco in the house. Just crack a window to let the CO out.

facw > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 14:11

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Time to crank up that heat and hope that it melts before anything bursts.

At my parents’ earlier this winter:

Edit: don’t use a 33MB gif...

Edit 2: Kinja helpfully recompressed the smaller gif, taking from a still portly 11MB to a mobile crushing 27MB. It would be a really simple check to see if the recompressed version was actually smaller than the original.

boredalways > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 14:54

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I forget to leave my faucet on this morning.

Can't wait to get home

BigBlock440 > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 15:02

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I had a house that liked to freeze pipes outside, eventually I figured out a method that works, at least on town water . A transfer pump, 25-ish feet of hose small enough to fit down the 3/4" pipe, adapters to hook the small hose to the pump, and a couple gallons of water I heated on the stove (I started keeping about 15 gallons in the basement just in case). Run the hose down the pipe until it stops, pump hot water in, push in as necessary and the blockage melts, then get ready to close the pipe back up again after your bath from the 60 psi suddenly coming back in.

Khalbali > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/30/2019 at 19:03

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I was just in Hyde Park yesterday for work, we're doing a capital one at 53rd and Harper.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 06:29

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i’m glad i never have to do anything like that.

i honestly have no idea how you cope year after year

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 11:16

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I bet it froze in the ground, Minnesota frost depth for plumbing should be around 5-6 feet. That includes the piece of pipe running from the column going into the ground. That section should probably have heat tape wrapped around it.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 11:34

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These ultra cold temps do awful things to water pipes within homes. A few years ago I had to appraise an older farm house that was being sold as part of an estate, so it had been vacant for a couple of months. It was probably 15 degrees outside. I walk in, and it was raining inside the living room. The furnace had quit, it was a fairly new unit (?), and the pipes in the upper bath had burst. I called the realtor and told him he needed to get to the house RIGHT NOW. The buyers still purchased the house after it was repaired. I guess they felt it was pre-disastered.

kanadanmajava1 > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 12:00

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Do you have any ideas where the underground pipes are located? And how deep are the hiding?

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 01/31/2019 at 12:25

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Iam southeast MN. No clue how deep the pipe actually is. My wife inherited the house from her father. He built it but there are some things we just don’t know. The pipe does have h eat tape on it the full length that is exposed and it looks like it goes underground as well just not sure how far. The column is super  insulated, I redid it last summer. It sucks that there is so much we don't know about the house. We are hoping the extreme temperature swing we are going to get this weekend will thaw it. 

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/31/2019 at 12:26

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Well if we had just a faucet running we would be coping just fine but we forgot. 

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > kanadanmajava1 01/31/2019 at 12:27

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No clue, inherited the house and there's a lot of things we don't know. 

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Khalbali 01/31/2019 at 12:53

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I think I am a different Hyde Park than what you're thinking. I am in SE MN. 

smobgirl > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 13:09

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Ugh, happened to me here when it hit -15 once in Denver. Thankfully the main line is pex and nothing broke, but it took about a week of above freezing weather before it thawed. I was filling jugs at work. LESSON LEARNED.

I hope you’re back to normal soon.

Khalbali > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 13:53

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Ah I assumed Hyde park  Chicago lol.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > smobgirl 01/31/2019 at 13:56

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I know that the underground line is plastic and is also inside a pipe. Not sure how far it's like that though. 

kanadanmajava1 > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 01/31/2019 at 17:13

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If they are old iron pipes you might find them with a good metal detector. If they are frozen in the ground they cannot be hiding very deep. Let’s hope that you can solve the situation without going pipe hunting. Finding the frozen spot indoors might be easier situation to solve.

I have no idea where my water pipes are either but they are deep e nough not to get frozen .

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > kanadanmajava1 01/31/2019 at 23:19

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They pipe is plastic so no dice. Thanks though.