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No Water No Heating Frozen and Desperate

  • 23-12-2010 7:46pm
    #1
    Soilse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭


    All the pipes in the house are frozen. I have water coming into kitchen from mains but nowhere else.

    The water tank in attic is full but frozen.

    The heating has stopped working, boiler is outside have tried using the reset button but doen't work.

    I have no idea what to do next and my main worry is at some stage there is going to be a thaw and the house is going to flood.

    Any advise on what to do please Im a bit desperate? Do I empty the tank? Is it possible to get the heating going and by that get everything else working?


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  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Sorry I don't have good news for you, but at this stage its too late I'm afraid.

    There's not much you can do really until the thaw comes.

    In regards the potential damage. Again, there's not much can be done there. The only way you will know the extent of the damage (if any) until the thaw.

    Keep you're fingers crossed, you might be lucky.


  • #3
    Sparkpea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Sparkpea


    its the other way round in my opinion, get the water cold/hot working so you can use your immersion for hot water or heat water up in kettle/on cooker, you'll need the hot water to thaw the heating pipes out.

    is the water in your tank in the loft actually frozen? if so it might only be 6" or so.. break the ice. either way, get a heater up there to help thaw it, even a 60 or 100w bulb on over the tank will help thaw it.


  • #4
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Sparkpea wrote: »
    even a 60 or 100w bulb on over the tank will help thaw it.

    in these kind on nightime temps (-12 to -14 for example), a bulb like this is of little effect........an infra red bulb is far more effective.


  • #5
    Sparkpea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Sparkpea


    probably true but something is better than nothing, my car was reading -3 tonight rather than -14 the past few days.. so its getting warmer in some areas believe it or not lol


  • #6
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    yep, I had a 100w bulb over my tank last night, and the pipes froze.
    I got an infra-red in tonight - and hopefully all will be well. It was -12.5 here last night.


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  • #7
    Soilse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭Soilse


    Thanks for replying tank is almost frozen but had a fan heater up there for 3-4hours this even prob is the pipes in house ar frozen coz the no heating in house


  • #8
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Sparkpea wrote: »
    its the other way round in my opinion, get the water cold/hot working so you can use your immersion for hot water or heat water up in kettle/on cooker, you'll need the hot water to thaw the heating pipes out.

    is the water in your tank in the loft actually frozen? if so it might only be 6" or so.. break the ice. either way, get a heater up there to help thaw it, even a 60 or 100w bulb on over the tank will help thaw it.

    I like the optimism. I'm sick to the teeth of digging footpaths this week to fix mains where they have pushed out of the fittings.
    Soilse wrote: »
    Thanks for replying tank is almost frozen but had a fan heater up there for 3-4hours this even prob is the pipes in house ar frozen coz the no heating in house

    Try to get some boiling water on the heating pipes that you can see outside in the boiler house, and stick in a fan heater in there, worth a shot.


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