[Closed] Washing machine waste pipe frozen - kitchen and utility room flooded

Can you not remove said washing machine and attach a hose and drop the waste down the sink for the time being?

Pour a mixture of luke warm water and salt down the plug holes?

I know it wont stop water poring every where but not sure what else you could do ?!!?

Hot water, salt. Maybe attach a hosepipe to the hot tap and run it up the waste pipe from outside.

Or do you mean just the bendy pipe to the washing machine? Surely you can pull the machine out?

can you put a fan heater/hairdryer to blow into pipe area

have you got a drain unblocket coil

The sink probably drains to the same pipe. I spent hours yesterday trying to thaw out my drain, but its frozen solid right in the middle of a thick stone wall and I just cant get enough heat in there. So im waiting till spring 🙂

Pump out what water is in there now and pour down a bottle of meths.

meths eh? and if that doesn't unfreeze it I can just chuck a match down there too 😀

you could try some anti-freeze, but I'm not sure if the pipes will like it. Caustic might also work as well, exothermic reaction would be a bonus, but......if it doesn't you then have a load of caustic stuck down there that needs to be brought out.

If you can get the plug hole out and have a bucket, running a stream of hot water water via a hose directly at it and catching the back flow could help as well.

At least it's not your [b]in[/b] pipe.

I need a shower 🙁

Check where it exits the house. Mine froze up as the drips and slowly built up in to a massive tube of ice. I went out with the extension lead, hair dryer and loads of other gubbins. I gave it a kick to get the worst of and whoosh..... problem solved 🙂

I've had the same problem with the overflow for the combi boiler. I have to go out everyday and snap a tube of ice of and then hammer the plastic pipe to dislodge any ice built up inside. daily chore now!

TBH weve got water (sorry sam) and the bogs ok, so everything else is a luxury, were going away for a few days tomorrow so I think I might just leave it till then.
And I wouldnt go near caustic, im not even really safe with superglue.

a 3 pin plug and a length electrical flex should clear it

method ...

connect plug to flex and bare the wires at the end of the flex ...

feed flex into waste pipe until it stops at the blockage ...

connect plug to socket and turn on the power, you might wanna close your eyes at this point ...

report back if it works

oops, forgot the wink 😉

Ive removed most of the pipe so ive got decent access, and ive poured boiling water down, then pumped it out several times, in conjunction with salt,and a hot air gun and blowtorch.
I just think that theres too much mass surrounding it that just means I cant get enough heat in there.
Mind I spose it is up to -7 now so I might have a better chance, and the meths idea seems interesting.
Goog, I wonder if I could get the immersion heater element down there.

Ok, so to report back....

Extension and fan heaters to pipe on both sides of external walls of building that the pipe ingeniously wends it's way round.

Warmed them up first, then boiling water from kettle all over the shop (not on the fan heaters!).

Drained water from washing maching bendy pipe, u bend and other screwed in pipes.

Boiling water down there, mixed with screen wash (!) for good measure.

Result = clear pipes.

Now fully lagged too.

To quote girlfriend

"Are you going to ring a plumber?"

oh,and sam - not having a shower working doesn't seem to have bothered you for the rest of the year 😉

(more than welcome to use ours if you're stuck btw)

I hope the antifreeze solution was a joke...not the sort of thing you want to be pouring into drains 🙁

We have some ponds near us that take surface run off, last year all the fish floated to the surface...they never did find out who was responsible...

ours has been doing the same thing, luckily not flooded the kitchen though. we've taken the waste pipe off the wall (outside) and just pour half a kettle of boiling water down it when we put the washer on. not had any other issues with the washer filling with water since

Happend to me Tuesday night (after laying a new wooden floor Saturday). Now have to take the floor up, grrrrr.

Can you take apart waste pipe as it exits house? Thats how I got to my frozen section. Kettle for external pipe. I used a hose to suck out water inside and then kettle down that also.