Hope everyone did well

[bigtruuck]

Even with water trickeling I froze up. The ice broke free at 4 this morning at least this one i dind'nt have to search to hard for.

[hipower]

Looks like you've got room to work at least. And love the spray-foam insulation.

[z0mbies fear me]

Some of the ones I fixed last night on a fire sprinkler system. First one used to be an 1.25" 90°



Second one was a straight 1.25" tee:



This one was an 1.25"×1"×1" tee:

[Tncobra]

I'm currently pushing hot water back through the garage sink in hopes I can clear the cold line. But right now my water is off completely for unknown reasons. I had good pressure before service was turned off so I'm hoping to just clear the line.

Dag it's cold.

If anyone around Sevierville needs help holler at me.

[Dirtshooter]

My water in walkout basement was froze up yesterday morning, I forgot to drip the faucets and the water line is on outside walls. If you can get to the store for parts I highly recommend using the new pex pipe with sharkbite fittings. I had a break under kitchen sink last year and it was so unbelievably easy to fix. A plumber friend said he had never seen it freeze and bust. We had an emergency eye wash/shower that was fed water with pex that I forgot to shut off, it broke 1.25" galvanized pipe and only swelled up the pex. It is so much easier that pvc it isn't funny. You can patch pvc, cpvc, copper and I think npt pipe.

[bigtruuck]

pex is by far the best and the easiest, when i build i'm going with all pex. I may just redo all of what i have now with pex this summer if i have the time.

[btq96r]

Shower, sink, and toilet all seem just fine.  Sorry to hear about the troubles some of you are having.

[gregintenn]

I didn't think it was very cold last night. :confused:

 

Wednesday night/Thursday morning was -8. How'd they survive that? Last night was upper 20's/lower 30's.

Edited February 21, 2015 by gregintenn

[jh225]

Even with water trickeling I froze up. The ice broke free at 4 this morning at least this one i dind'nt have to search to hard for.

 

 

And therein lies the problem. Do not "trickle" the faucets. Set them to a slow flow or a very fast drip. I would much rather leave a fast drip/slow flow on for days on end and pay the water bill, than leave them to "trickle", which is way to slow and allows the freezing temps to catch up.

 

Also leave ANY cold water line that is in an outside wall, or comes under the house set that way. Faucets, showers, tubs, whatever. Again, rather pay the water bill than to have to fix pipes.

 

I am not trying to berate anyone in any way, just offering tips for next time.

[Grand Torino]

What a mess. I'm glad I didn't have any freezing problems. Good luck to you in getting everything fixed.

[oldogy]

We were without power for 50 hours, including one night at -2 deg. Very thankful for the genset and a big wood stove..  No pipe problems.

[bigtruuck]

I guess i'm still trying to find the "sweat" spot on the faucets. last year i was on the road for a week and had the water running and came back and the well had burned itself out from running all week. Now during the winter when i go on the road i shut off the main coming in and instaled a dump valve to drain the house. I also got a heatstrip to put on the main line were it comes out of the ground so it wont freeze up and break as well.