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No water from shower-frozen-advice PLEASE!!!!!!

  • 02-12-2010 09:41PM
    #1
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone can help, theres no water coming from our shower tonight,must be frozen,all other taps and toilets are working, just the shower upstairs,can anyone advise me what to do to get shower going PLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!:(:(:(:(:(:(


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  • #2
    eurokev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 ✭✭✭eurokev


    Sorry youre in trouble there. Just have to wait for it thaw. In the meantime you could find the offending pipe and insulate it to prevent it happening in future


  • #3
    hollymount
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭hollymount


    If you have an attic, open the trap door to allow some heat to rise up and this might help the situation. Also insulate the pipe lead if you can find it, a blanket anything!!


  • #4
    pookiesboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭pookiesboo


    thanks guys,having nightmares with this house lately,have a dimplex set up now underneath the now open attic door,really HATING this weather.


  • #5
    eurokev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 ✭✭✭eurokev


    hollymount wrote: »
    If you have an attic, open the trap door to allow some heat to rise up and this might help the situation. Also insulate the pipe lead if you can find it, a blanket anything!!

    +1


  • #6
    ntpm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 302 ✭✭ntpm


    pookiesboo wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone can help, theres no water coming from our shower tonight,must be frozen,all other taps and toilets are working, just the shower upstairs,can anyone advise me what to do to get shower going PLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!!:(:(:(:(:(:(


    If your shower is mains fed then the mains is either frozen or very low in pressure... however is you have cold water at your kitchen sink then mains is ok.

    If the mains was switched off for a short while you may just have an airlock in shower.

    If your shower is fed from the cold water tank in attic then there could be a frozen pipe in attic ( or a blockage).
    Or if tank was allowed to go empty then you could also possibly have an air lock as well.


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  • #7
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,911 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    i have same problem like OP. i got in to attick to check. i am still getting water in to the tank, and ather pipes got warmed up. the problem is shower pipe/plastic hose. you can see it being frozen from tank.



    can i warm it out somehow? can i just put a small heater for frew hours near tank? any ideas guys? really need shower, tyred to wash my jewls in a small bowl :D


  • #8
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    You can get a frostwatch heater for the attic, which will turn itself on when needed. Give it a blast with the hair dryer, but be wary of the potential of a leak from the pipe having burst.


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