{"id":406,"date":"2010-12-07T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-12-21T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T11:55:08","slug":"frozen-waste-pipe-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/2010\/frozen-waste-pipe-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Waste Pipe – how to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"

It certainly is a cold snap we’re having at the moment, this morning the kitchen sink would not drain.\u00a0 This freezing problem could happen to bath drain pipes, basin waste pipes, shower waste pipes, washing machine drain pipes\u00a0and in extreme circumstances toilet soil pipes and stacks.<\/p>\n

This trick also works for condensate drain pipes from combi boilers, white or grey 20mm plastic pipe that comes through the wall behind the boiler and leads to a drain.<\/p>\n

The freezing occurs where the pipe is outside as it runs to the soil stack or drain.<\/p>\n

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Sink\/ bath\/ basin waste pipe where it enters the soil stack <\/p><\/div>\n

It took some thinking about to come up with a quick fix, this is it<\/p>\n

Wrap some towels around the pipe, the thicker, most layers the better. Then pour very hot water water over the towels so they are soaked.\u00a0 BE CAREFUL OF SPLASHES AND SPILLS.<\/p>\n

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Pipe wrapped in towels with hot water pored over<\/p><\/div>\n

When the towels have cooled, apply another soaking.\u00a0 This was enough to open up our 32mm waste pipe so the sink drained.<\/p>\n

Then run hot water from the tap for 10 mins to melt out any ice that’s left.<\/p>\n

As a preventative measure I could now lag the pipe but I think the most important thing will be to make sure\u00a0that no \u00a0taps\u00a0are dripping.<\/p>\n

DONT turn your computer of just yet.<\/strong> Try the solution and let me know how you get on. (Comments and Replies below)<\/p>\n

Let everyone know. Please feel free to drop a link to this article via facebook, twitter<\/strong> etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

And thanks to The Cheaterfield Post<\/a> for suggesting I add this to my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It certainly is a cold snap we’re having at the moment, this morning the kitchen sink would not drain.\u00a0 This freezing problem could happen to bath drain pipes, basin waste pipes, shower waste pipes, washing machine drain pipes\u00a0and in extreme circumstances toilet soil pipes and stacks. This trick also works for condensate drain pipes from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,166,165,169,168,164,163],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ido-diy-stuff","tag-blocked","tag-freezing","tag-frozen","tag-how-to-howto","tag-unblock","tag-waste","tag-waste-pipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idostuff.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}