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Water Meter Full of Water

  • 05-02-2019 10:37am
    #1
    BobMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    We suffer from mains line water freezing, froze there over the weekend,
    on Saturday was gone for most of the day. Thanksfully a mild sunny day
    and perhaps my intervention below helped?

    Decided I'd check water meter at the kerb, was full of water,
    I poured two boiling kettles into it also my train of thought being it was perhaps the cause, water already inside wasnt frozen solid but was very cold to the touch. Should this not be dry?? and not full to nearly the top with water ??

    We've a history of this line freezing and two years ago at great expense
    had a new line dug in and buried deeper, builder felt easier as other main line
    was running under drive. Upon this work we discovered how shallow the original main was. In was laid along the drive under the tarmac. How they get away with this is for a debate another time.

    We ran new line down the grass side toward side entrance and half of it sits now under a large shed to the side

    Am I right to suspect the Meter is the weak point for this freezing.
    Any further prevention tips we might deploy??

    thanks in advance


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