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Thaw on but still no water

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  • 27-12-2010 1:13pm
    #1
    AmarilloFats
    Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭


    Hi.

    WE've had no water for the last 4/5 days. Contacted a few plumbers who saids pipes must be frozen. But now with temps at 8 degrees we still have no water.

    Any Ideas?

    Any contacts numbers for plumbers working today?


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    #2
    wyndham
    Registered Users Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Have your neighbours got water?

    There's a plumbing forum here:

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1320


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    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    I don't think this thaw was enough. This is our third day without water, my dad has been out at where the stopcock is out the front, throwing hot water and practically lighting fires on top of it and he says it is as frozen and the ground aroud it as is frozen as it was yesterday. Seems temperatures are dropping a bit too. Hopefully tomorrow.


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    RGDATA!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭RGDATA!


    underground pipes take longer to freeze in cold weather but also longer to thaw


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    miss no stars
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    A lot of the pipes in Dublin are the old cast iron pipes. Problem with cast iron is that it's brutally brittle. In the cold weather when it freezes it can cause cracking. However, the ice will hold it together and sometimes the water will even keep flowing. Problem comes when the thaw does, the water in the soil around it is no longer frozen so it shrinks, as does water in the pipe. Crack is no longer forced together and water leaks out the crack, unlike when it was frozen.

    Best possible reason - the water's still frozen and should be back soon if this thaw holds
    Worst possible reason - pipe's shagged.


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