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Ah, the collective wisdom of STW. Frozen pipes this morning, was just about to post a thread when ho-hey! there's one there already. Have just spent the entire day blasting the hairdrier at various points for hours on end. Finally, having removed the boxing from around the shower tray and the cistern feed and then moving into the kitchen to remove a section of kicker board, gave a joint in the pipes a blast and five mins later a whoppee from SWMBO. All this might sound way OTT but our cottage is 250 yrs old, the bathroom is in what was a lean-to downstairs and apart from an aged multi-fuel we have three storage heaters. The plumbing is ad-hoc to say the least. We had a problem with rats a year ago and the rat-man put poison down in all the places where I was applying the hairdrier today, there's a faint whiff of warm rat poo in the bathroom but at least we have water. BTW our house is normally 10c which we all like and just wear pullies and slippers all the time. Feels much healthier though whether it is I don't know.
Yes even after 4 years of living in the house she still can't differentiate between what the thermostat does and what the Central Heating Timer does.
We go through it at leats once a week...Same as closing doors to stop drafts and turning lights off when you leave a room.
Its now Sunday(well, early Monday morn!)
After a bath on Friday, it wouldn't empty, frozen pipes.
So i panicked a bit and then asked google what to do,
which led me to this site!
So the easiest option for me was to crank up the central heating, i figured a night or two of it on round the clock would be cheaper and less hassle than burst pipes!
Anyway, it worked! Pipes now unblocked!
So, thankyou ever so much for the advice,
Angie
This thread demonstrates just how badly the average British abode is insulated (and what utter wimps you all are with one exception). If you insulate well, enough heat comes up from the ground to stop the place freezing. The temperature of water coming out of your cold tap gives you an idea of the ground temperature a metre down. If your pipes are freezing when it's over 5°C in the house you need to invest in insulation and lagging.
Actually... what this thread clearly proves is that even google recognises the collective wisdom of the STW massive 🙂