This is a weird one, hot water everywhere but the kitchen?!

Cherrycola

We have no hot water coming from the kitchen tap, so i assumed, crap, pipes are frozen.
Checked the cold tap, water is working fine, so i thought crap, tank or pipes running from the tank are frozen, cracked the loft open, put up a fan heater......but i can can hear water trickling away up there, refilling the tank im guessing?

Anyway, checked all the other hot taps, and electric shower, all are working fine.

So, is it possible i can have one section of pipe in the kitchen frozen? The sink is on an exposed wall, but the weird thing is the hot tap in the utility room is working fine, and its on the same wall, just a few meters from the kitchen sink.

Any one any ideas?

Ive had the heat on for a few hours and the cupboard under the sink left open, as the kitchen is large and open plan so does get colder than other rooms, but still nothing. Not even a drip!

brendanL

Cherrycola wrote: »

We have no hot water coming from the kitchen tap, so i assumed, crap, pipes are frozen.
Checked the cold tap, water is working fine, so i thought crap, tank or pipes running from the tank are frozen, cracked the loft open, put up a fan heater......but i can can hear water trickling away up there, refilling the tank im guessing?

Anyway, checked all the other hot taps, and electric shower, all are working fine.

So, is it possible i can have one section of pipe in the kitchen frozen? The sink is on an exposed wall, but the weird thing is the hot tap in the utility room is working fine, and its on the same wall, just a few meters from the kitchen sink.

Any one any ideas?

Ive had the heat on for a few hours and the cupboard under the sink left open, as the kitchen is large and open plan so does get colder than other rooms, but still nothing. Not even a drip!

I'd say it's the exterior wall with the pipe in it, noticed something similiar this morning myself, fortunately I was up early enough to notice it before it completely froze so i was able to run some water through it.

Micky Dolenz

Highly unlikely to be frozen. It is more than likely a stuck washer or the spindle has come apart.

Could be an airlock. Open hot tap, put hand over spout and slowly turn on cold tap, this will force cold water back through hot line and clear air lock.

Cherrycola

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Highly unlikely to be frozen. It is more than likely a stuck washer or the spindle has come apart.

Could be an airlock. Open hot tap, put hand over spout and slowly turn on cold tap, this will force cold water back through hot line and clear air lock.

Tried that, no luck.

Suppose i'll just have to wait it out and see if it is frozen. Ive set up the fan heater under the sink, we'll see if that gets anything moving. We'll survive as long as everything else is working.

Very strange though.

Cherrycola

Ugh, its a frozen pipes issue, this morning the utility room hot AND cold water are gone , thank god we still have cold water in the kitchen! :eek:

Now, with no thaw in sight, what do i do to keep the cold water running??
Should i go with the dripping tap, even though its not the popular choice?

Cherrycola

Anyone??

Sparkpea

sounds like a jammed washer or a dirty valve. count how many times the cold tap in the sink turns to open fully and then try the hot and count how many times, if its the same or nearly the same amount of turns thats ok, tho you might find the cold open 6 times and hot only 2, then its a dirty valve tho its more likely to be a jammed washer or the jumper has come off the valve. best get a professional to look at it unless your very handy, have a spanner and can turn water off..

hussaint

Hi Cherrycola,

Strange but true, I woke up to the exact same problem this morning, exactly one week on from your original post !

All taps in house working except hot kitchen (mixer) tap. It is on an outside wall, again there are others on outside walls but they are OK.

I initially though it might be an airlock, even though I have never experienced one downstairs in a house, but no luck.

I am guessing it is frozen and can only think of the mains pressure for being the reason the cold supply hasn't also frozen.

Is your's working again? If so, did you have to do anything, or did it just start working again i.e. was simply frozen ?

Cherrycola

just this morning our utility room hot water came back, then the cold water!!

Our kitchen taps are still frozen, but we're hoping they wont be far behind either.

We tried fan heaters, dimplex heaters etc, and nothing worked, only the thaw.

We're not sure if our utility room cold tap is mains water or comes from the tank, so we're afraid to use it yet in case it empties the tank.
The tanks upstairs are still not filling, so we have a bit of a wait ahead.

hussaint

Thanks for the update Cherrycola. Last night the kitchen hot water pipe thawed out. Thankfully we only suffered (knowingly) with the problem for about 14 hours. No signs of any leaking yet.... touch wood!

Cherrycola

No worries, we've now realised the council have turned off the water to repair burst pipes, hence the reason we still have no mains water, but everything else has thawed, thank god.