No water - Oranmore

scrubber72

We lost our water yesterday and thought it was just a frozen pipe but its still out. anyone know if the water has been turned off in oranmore? if so when will it be back

swe_fi

In Oranhill it was the same Tue-Wed-Thu in the morning and partly in the evening, today it was back magically.

scrubber72

its back thank f*ck

yer man!

County council are turning off water periodically in maree and oranmore for the past few days as the reservoir is really low in carnmore. It's on councils twitter page.

http://twitter.com/GalwayCoCo

doolox

Many of the pipes down west are too near the surface to be safe from the frosts we are getting these past few years. time to get the pipes going into your house dowm at least 2 feet or more. Also need better insulations on pipes and tanks.....

yer man!

Just wondering if anyone on here is from oranhill? and if they know where the stopcocks are on the footpath for each house. I can't find them at all and there's a load of houses without water. By the way, does defrosting a stopcock give you a reasonably good chance of getting water into the house again, pipes are buried 4ft everywhere else but obviously not at stopcock if one exists.

lukeeman

Some times the stopcock can be to the back of the house.

ronnie3585

yer man! wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone on here is from oranhill? and if they know where the stopcocks are on the footpath for each house. I can't find them at all and there's a load of houses without water. By the way, does defrosting a stopcock give you a reasonably good chance of getting water into the house again, pipes are buried 4ft everywhere else but obviously not at stopcock if one exists.

One of my neighbours had one of the little blow heaters blowing hot air over the stopcock for a few hours and that got this water back.

toadfly

We lived in oranclose estate in oranhill last year and were three weeks without water. Out stopcock was in the footpath at the front of the house. It was about a footdown and was solid ice.

What we done was drill holes in the ice and then put boiling water in on it. When that cooled a bit we scooped it out and then more drilling and water. Took a few hours until it was clear. By the following afternoon we had water.

Our water is gone this year in a different house but stopcock isn't frozen so don't know what to do.

yer man!

TillyGirl wrote: »

We lived in oranclose estate in oranhill last year and were three weeks without water. Out stopcock was in the footpath at the front of the house. It was about a footdown and was solid ice.

What we done was drill holes in the ice and then put boiling water in on it. When that cooled a bit we scooped it out and then more drilling and water. Took a few hours until it was clear. By the following afternoon we had water.

Our water is gone this year in a different house but stopcock isn't frozen so don't know what to do.

Oh god sorry to hear that, and thanks for the instructions on the stopcock location i'm gonna try find it later, i lost the plans to the estate, it had the exact location of every valve running into the house, stupid me.

boatbuilder

My water supply went as well. My solution was to get 60 metres of garden hose and connect it in at the meter and bring the line over ground and connect it to the water pipe just going into the house. Works brilliantly. We just leave the tap running slightly and it doesn't freeze. It was at least minus 11 or minus 12 here last night and it didn't freeze.

Jaheira

Oranbay/Oranhill - water gone this afternoon

Gday

When we came home to beechgrove oranmore at 7pm yesterday, we had no water. It's almost midday and we're still without it. Anyone know what's going on? I heard a whisper the pump at carnmore might be out of order. Anybody know anything?...

CrowdedHouse

Gone in Oakfield,we had no problems at all until today

Sponge Bob

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Gone in Oakfield,we had no problems at all until today

Council Website, www.galway.ie mentions nothing wrong in Oranmore bar a standpipe location in Oranhill.

Hennybug

I'm the same, got back to Oranhill a couple of hours ago and no cold water downstairs - any updates on this, nothing on the GCC website

CrowdedHouse

It's very odd - one side of the road is OK but the other has none, complicated by the fact that some houses had frozen pipes (somewhere) before today.

yer man!

I completely defrosted the stopcock outside my house in orancourt today, but no luck, everyone else's is out too. I'm just wondering is it a mains problem or is it simply frozen pipes under the drive leading into the house?

Gday

Just heard there's a mains burst in Maree. Goodness knows how long it will take to fix. I'm over it now.....

yer man!

Gday wrote: »

Just heard there's a mains burst in Maree. Goodness knows how long it will take to fix. I'm over it now.....

Oh jesus it'll be at least another 2 days before water is restored if that's the case.

Im_No_Superman

Just got back to the apartment in Renmore and no water here either! :mad:

Hennybug

Gday wrote: »

Just heard there's a mains burst in Maree. Goodness knows how long it will take to fix. I'm over it now.....

Any updates on this?

Madame Razz

Gday wrote: »

Just heard there's a mains burst in Maree. Goodness knows how long it will take to fix. I'm over it now.....

Grealy's will continue to have a field day then:D

CrowdedHouse

I suspect it's just frozen.

I opened where the stop cock is outside, I was surprised to find lumps of ice in it still.

I poured several kettles of boiling water in but I think it was a waste of time & water

CrowdedHouse

Ours is back, maybe the kettles helped

muskyj

just found and opened stopcock outside the house. found lump of ice around it too. will give it the kettle treatment and let you know if it works.

CrowdedHouse

Good luck with it, it took a good while before anything happened, at least an hour and a half. Turn on your kitchen cold tap too

Hennybug

Anyone else in Oranhill still out? I attempted to find the stopcock outside but only succeeded in pulling the cover on what looked like a drain :rolleyes: It was the only un-identified cover among all the eircom and esb ones but no joy!

CrowdedHouse

It will look something like the ones pictured on this page - quite small

http://www.stopcockcosy.com/buynow/index.htm

Hennybug

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

It will look something like the ones pictured on this page - quite small

http://www.stopcockcosy.com/buynow/index.htm

That's about 3 times the size of what i dug up There are at least 4 little ones like that round the back so how do i know which is the right one

CrowdedHouse

Might have Water or Uisce written on it....and a square 'bolt' sticking up

Hennybug

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Might have Water or Uisce written on it....and a square 'bolt' sticking up

Thanks Crowdedhouse, all of them have water written on it!! It's a block of duplex apts with ground floor apts downstairs. I've dug up the two closed to my place and both frozen, one has thawed with hot water, the other needs another kettle - fingers crossed i'm actually thawing my own and not the neighbours

Terrier

Hennybug wrote: »

Anyone else in Oranhill still out? I attempted to find the stopcock outside but only succeeded in pulling the cover on what looked like a drain :rolleyes: It was the only un-identified cover among all the eircom and esb ones but no joy!

If you are in oranhill you will have two stopcocks outside your house. One being a traditional stopcock with a metal cab the second will be a plastic cab with water written on it. This is your water meter box.

The issue with Oranhill is not at the stopcock as if you remove the head to where your water meter would be attached water will bubble though. (ensure your on\off value is not frozen before doing this) I did 3 houses in oranhill and all issue are on the runs from the mains into the house.

One possible way is to clear out the press under the sink and leave the press door open as the pipe is freezing here, got 2 back by placeing small blow heaters in the press.

yer man!

Does anyone in oranhill, orancourt or maree road area have water yet? there's no info from county council at all and i see galway coco vans driving around the place lifting manholes, but still no water.

Madame Razz

I'm in the OH's home house for Christmas. We're down around the Mweloon area in Maree itself. No mains water this morning but it came back around 11am, but at very reduced pressure(i.e. the dishwasher couldn't be run). Getting really sick of it at this stage. I can appreciate that the council are doing what they can but this sporadic turning off of water with no updates is very frustrating; they could at least keep something up on their twitter page.

That said, if there's anybody in Maree stuck for water please pm me; we don't have much pressure, but we do have water and it might be of use to somebody:)

Hennybug

yer man! wrote: »

Does anyone in oranhill, orancourt or maree road area have water yet? there's no info from county council at all and i see galway coco vans driving around the place lifting manholes, but still no water.

Yeah, i'm in Oranhill and after 2 days pouring boiling water on the frozen stopcock (thanks for all the advice CrowdedHouse!) it sorted out mine and the neighbours and we got it back about an hour ago. After being without since the 26th i'm going to have the longest, hottest shower

scrubber72

Had no water for a week now and just found out that the neighbours who have been great suppling us with water have just lost theirs.:mad: Cloch Og on the bog road btw

Gazza72

It seems that water is off in EVERY house in Clochog at the moment.

cardoor

Saw a plumber in the last few minutes working on one of the Dormers at the front of Clochóg. He might have the whole lot knocked off. There is a burst pipe next door in Lismore.

delboy1986

No plumber at that house in cloch og now and still no water.

Loads of water running out of a manhole in lisroe tho

cats.life

give SAM PELLOW a call, he is a brill plumber, he lives down the left of irish school, near where ye are. he must be flat out like all plumbers are. water is turned down or turned off to allow pipes to get fixed. as for when water will be back is like asking how long is a piece of string.

Gday

My parents place in Beechgrove came back at about 11.30om last night. I just played the waiting game -,I didn't see the updates here in the previous 24 hours. Our neighbors came back at lunchtime so it appears to be on a house by house basis...

Having spent the past days living like it's the 1900s, I leave today to go home. Great that it's sorted as my elderly parents just would not have been able to help. Shame that I didn't get to spend more time with them enjoying ourselves instead of worrying about water.

Thanks to all for your input. Melbourne here I come...!

yer man!

Major leak on the bog road is the reason for outages around Oranmore. Water back fully on orancourt now.

drongal

Hello

Is there anyone (except me:-)) who has water problem in Riverdale area since this morning (night)?

Thanks
drongal

Muckit

Hi Guys. Hope your water has come back.

Mine still hasn't Is this unusual??

It didn't freeze until the last cold nite here, the night before Christmas Eve.

I think it's a problem is outside. The problem is further complicated by it being an apartment block. My nearest neighbour has water back last tow days. There are two valves outside on tarmac wil SV written beside them, I lifted the small iron cover, but there doesn't seem to be ice around them...

yer man!

Muckit wrote: »

Hi Guys. Hope your water has come back.

Mine still hasn't Is this unusual??

It didn't freeze until the last cold nite here, the night before Christmas Eve.

I think it's a problem is outside. The problem is further complicated by it being an apartment block. My nearest neighbour has water back last tow days. There are two valves outside on tarmac wil SV written beside them, I lifted the small iron cover, but there doesn't seem to be ice around them...

Make sure nobody has accidentally turned yours off.

CrowdedHouse

My neighbours only came back this morning. There has been rumours going around that all the water will be off to fix a big leak.

cats.life

my mother in-laws house in oranvale is flooded the poor woman, its a new house. her water was of for the week , she stayed with her daughter so she went to see how her house is an hour ago , she was met with a lake when she opened her front door. hubbie and son are there helping to turn of the mains to the house and to mop up. floor boards are fecked , ceiling is fecked. my heart goes out to her, she is 83. so watch out guys when water does come .

Sponge Bob

Every water scheme out in Connemara now has restrictions.

Many of the leaks are inside holiday homes that were not heated during the cold snap. If people do not avail of the current benign weather to heat and aggressively dry these holiday homes out they will be permanently destroyed.

If you have elderly relatives then please try to get into their attics and lag the pipes and tanks in case of pipes freezing.

Gazza72

I was onto the County Council this morning in relation to why Clochog had no water for the past 1.5 days, but he didn't know why it should be off? Weird? Anyone in Clochog have any water back on at all yet, if not, then it's time to call 091-476401 and report it so that they'll come out here to see why it's turned off.

scrubber72

water back in cloch og:D but only until 1:mad:.