Pipe was frozen....

fortunately, no

Sorry to hear that this happened, it is good you both were home when it broke. Hope they fix it tonight.

Our kitchen one freezes once in a while. It didn't this time thank goodness. I let it run a small trickle for the last couple of days, since it was so cold. I bet you really had a mess.

No, but my boiler had frozen pipes...several times...it ends up moving all over the place when the pressure drops and the water spurts out all over. It has set me back thousands of dollars. It now needs to be replaced but not until I add siding and insulation around all of the heating pipes.

Oh, WOW! I have never had a pipe burst before. That is terrible. I hope you get it all fixed tonight before it gets too late.

Hey louise! Yes! I have had that not so fun problem happen to me! What a mess! I hope you get that straightened out quick! It's a good think that it happened when you were home! It could have been alot worse if you guys were out! At least you got the water off pretty fast! That's always the worst when it gets cold like this and the pipes freeze up! I'm always afraid of it happening again! We had the radiator in the hall burst too! It was a mess! The hot water pipes burst and the water was boiling hot and we couldn't step down to even open the door! It took them forever to get here and turn the water off! The water kept rising until it was almost high enough to reach my apartment! That would have been a horror to have scalding water pouring into the apartment!

Ouch! I don't envy the mess you had to clean up. We've never had a pipe expand and break but our daughter did yesterday. She was home alone and heard a loud explosion. Went to the lower level of her house and water was all over one carpeted room. Her husband happened to come home right after this happened, turned off the water and cut the pipe out. Next he knocked down some drywall since it was all wet. He will fix it today. This house is only 2 years old so it can happen to even the newer homes also. It's my understanding that when it's extremely cold out and the pipes freeze there isn't a problem. It's when it warms up and the pipes expand they run the risk of busting.

I have had them freeze, but never explode. I had pipes wrapped at one house. With an electrical thaw tape. We just added more foam pipe wrap in the basement here. We still leave water dripping in very extreme weather.

I have had that "pleasure" and you are right, it is not fun at all Amazing how fast the water comes out of the pipe when it breaks.

Oh yes been there and done that,so now i always leave at least 3 of my faucet dripping or barely running,have had to do that forthe last 3 nights,we have had some awful cold weather.Good luck.

Hmmmm.....This is funny because we were just talking to our friend Jeff at church this morning and he said he was tired out because he was up late into the morning hours because he was fixing a leak. He is a landlord and was called in to his apartments because of a burst pipe at midnight. He was going back this afternoon to finish working on it. We had our own experience with this in the fall. I even wrote a discussion about it! Not much fun, is it?

hello louise did your-all's landlord get there to fix your broken pipe problem? i sure hope so. and the way you worded your post was funny to me. i can picture the whole thing right now. well i hope that your pipe is fixed now. and no i haven't had a pipe explode like that before but i have had the toilet run over in the floor thou. like the other morning right before it was time to leave to go to work. lol boy was i ever over it. lol take care and have a beautiful day today!

Wow what a mess that must have been. So far nothing like that happened to me. "Knock on Wood"

Oh I am so sorry to hear about that...what a horrible situation. Our neighbor down the road must have had an experience similar to that as we had a road crew out last night on our street as someone had a water main break and our road filled up with water. Luckily it didnt affect our whole street, our all our water, just a single house but the water went down half the street. I hope it all got cleared up for you and that things are going better for you.

I never had a frozen pipe, but I lived in a place where the next building was empty and the pipes froze and caused a flood in the basement of over building, our water pipes in the streets are freezing and busting all over montreal right now.

Funny you should ask... I was just considering whether to make a pity post about my own rotten plumbing. A friend came over and went to get some water and noticed a puddle on the floor... Hopefully, it's just the shut-off valve for the hot water supply, where it was leaking. I had to turn off the cold water supply to the water heater to get it to stop leaking. And then there's the actual faucet tap that needs a new cartridge on the cold-water side... heavy sigh.

Well I had a leak.....a bad one on a Sunday night. I called my ex and he came over and was going to turn the water off and twisted the whole valve off...the water shot across my basement...we had to get the emergency number for the city and have them track down a guy...who had to come and turn the water off in my yard before we could stop the water....what a mess! Hopefully by now your's is back in order!

Oh, man! I feel for you! I've been wondering when I'd hear someone talk about burst pipes, with all this sub-freezing weather we've been having across the country! I've never had that happen to me, personally, but I think it might happen to my son... very soon! His pipes have been frozen since Friday... absolutely no water into his house in ANY faucet! I told him to keep one faucet open so, whenever it thaws (which may be today, hopefully... supposed to go up to 40 deg. after hitting a low of 0 with a high of 16 for the past 2 days), the water will have some place to go. I HOPE his pipes don't burst... or that they haven't already. He hasn't seen any ice forming from under or around his house so that's a good sign! I did have a water heater explode once, though. Actually, it just started leaking... all over the basement! THAT was fun... probably as much fun as what you've just gone through. You just never seem to have enough dry towels at a time like that! But, at least your water is turned off so you won't have any more flooding... hopefully! Good luck to you and enjoy your new faucet once you have it installed!

That's the first time it happened on it's own that I can remember. I did see a gadget on this old house that could stop that problem but I don't think we have enough plumbing in this place to attach it.

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