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This has been 4 days now & we have no water at all. Anyone know any tips etc? This happened last year & lasted a week. Absolute nightmare, I live in a semi detached. I went outside to the toby just on my drive & that turned no problem. I have looked to find the mains but it goes under the sink & under the floor, I have my floor tiled so no way of following where this goes.


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open the doors under the sink and point a fan heater in there for a few hours which may help speed up the thawing process.
 
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If you have metal copper or lead mains you can hook up an electric arc welder with 2 earth clamps about 5m plus apart switch on at 120 amp and it will defrost but be carefull and stay with it -too close with the clamps and you can vapourise the pipe !

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Centralheatking said:
If you have metal copper or lead mains you can hook up an electric arc welder with 2 earth clamps about 5m plus apart switch on at 120 amp and it will defrost but be carefull and stay with it -too close with the clamps and you can vapourise the pipe !

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House is only 7 year old, looks like a plastic pipe mate.
 
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Do you have vents round bottom of building. A mate of mine has constant problems during this weather with his pipes freezing. His pipes are uninsulated, running under house. Had to block of all his vents and attach a powerful fan heater to the vent closest to kitchen pipes and let it run for an hour or so. It has worked a number times now.
 
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Will have a look, its very weird because thats twice this year its happened, no1 else in my street gets it. All houses are the same & built 7 years ago.
 
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Yes still frozen. Have looked under my sink & can see the blue water pipe going under the floor, it seems to be sealed at the floor so would be pointless heating the cupboard where the pipe goes under the floor. Apparently my pipe comes from the main right under my house and straight to my kitchen at the back of the house. there is no coldness etc coming from the pipe.
Hopefully this settles quickly.
 
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Fyne15 said:
Have you had a plumber out?
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Got another plumber out yesterday & he says it must be frozen just outside house, as the house is warm & we now have no snow or ice outside it must be deep down. More or less that he cant do anything about it. He checked outside at the toby & that was fine. Hope it thaws soon as im choking for a bath in my own house :(.
 
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mate I live in glasgow and its about 8 degrees at the moment, they should have thawed by now if they were frozen. Do you have no water to your house at all ?
 
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long term solution move to Ozz they only get flooded out, not frozen, so always have water. I gather my sister has just bought a boat out there!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Live near Glasgow and without water for 12 days this time, 7 days earlier in year. I'm sure it has been frozen. Our supply came back days after the ice cleared. We were lucky enough to get Scottish water to dig up the Toby and prove the frozen section lay between the mains and our Toby. If you haven't got your supply back yet get Scottish water to do a field visit- at the very least the may be able to link you to a neighbours mains supply. Can defrost your pipes faster. When Scottish water arrive they should have plans showing your mains supply. Your Toby needs to be at least 450mm deep. Good luck.
 
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How likely are we to get help from Scottish water to either move the supply from the mains deeper or insulate the pipes in the street? Our Toby is only 400mm deep - although the frozen section actually lay under the street. Thanks
 
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the regulations state that the pipe should be at a minimum depth of 750mm, get Scottish Water out to look at it and make them aware of this.
 
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its the water byelaws that states it and bs6700 its not an actual regulation its a recomendation so i am not sure if water board have to do anything
 
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seems unfair still if the byelaws state that they should be layed at this depth and the household suffers from frozen pipes due to the contractors laying the pipes at a non-suitable depth for frost prevention.
 
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seems unfair still if the byelaws state that they should be layed at this depth and the household suffers from frozen pipes due to the contractors laying the pipes at a non-suitable depth for frost prevention.
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yes this statement is very true and i cannot see any reason why they would not do manything to fix it if it keeps freezing however the 750mm is a recomendation not a regulation so any plumber could put a pipe 200mm below the ground and not break a regulation its a very strange one especially as its in the water byelaws but i done the water byelaws training few years back and can actually remember that this is the case it confused me slightly at first but half of bs numbers are recomendations
 
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i know it sounds strange as it is in the actual water regulations however i think its worded like for example regulation 1 (a) recomends pipes be laid at no less than 750mm and no more than 1350mm
 
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yeh thats correct but I personally think it should be made a regulation judging by all the trouble weve had with frozen pipe, I seen on the news that belfast they wer digging up alot of mains due to been frozen and bursting.
 
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We live in Wishaw, Lanarkshire and are having the same problem in our seven-year-old semi-detached (Turnberry homes). Our water has been off since early Tuesday morning (on our sixth day without it now). There's no sign of anything changing either.
The water pipes seem to come in through a concrete floor and up into a kitchen cupboard. That's where the stopcock is, anyway.

Scottish Water say the problem is ours, because all our neighbours have water. But we've no idea where the blockage is, apart from it's probably in the supply pipe under the front lawn or driveway. I don't know who to call to get at it - plumber? Civil engineer? Should it not have defrosted by now or is ice in an underground pipe particularly hard to shift?
 
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Scottish water came out today, the guy poured a kettle of hot water beside the stopcock outside & we now have hot water, I tried this several times last week aswell lol.
 
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