Hindsight would be marvellous - but is in short supply....
We've been out of the country for over three weeks so the very cold weather was not expected when we left.
I turned down the boiler so it was still putting heat around the house ... just in case.
On our return we weren't greeted with aburst pipe, but a frozon pipe between the boundary box in the pavement and the house.
The Water Co. suggested waiting for it to defrost and suggested pouring a bucket full of warm water of the meter/stopcock to get some heat in that end, is ther anything more that I can do?
The house is built into the side of a hill with the living accomodation being upstairs and the bedrooms/bathroom downstairs. The boundary box is in the pavement at the upstairs level, and the pipe then says sub-surface and enters the house through the bathroom floor
- the internal stopcock in behind the bath.
Other than puilling up carpets and floorboards and trying to find a frozen pipe and gently defrost it if possible is there anything to bo done?
We've got hotwater in the tank - could I connect the hot water to the cold and back feed some warm water into the cold system to try to get to the frozen bit...?
Helpful tHoughts please
Ta
Steve