What's Happening Now?

[Shutpa]

This is a problem, that may, or may not, be connected to this:
//www.diynot.com/forums//viewtopic.php?t=247861&highlight=

This morning apart from a shower, there was no cold water supply in our extension. None in the utility room, the toilet cystern or the sink in the shower room and with -12 degrees outside, I naturally thought that the pipes were frozen somewhere. However, I know all feeds including the shower, lead from a single source near the hot water tank and travel between the floors at no time going near an outside wall. I also know that our heating is left on overnight at 15 degrees and that the pipes to the radiators in the extension travel in the same spaces under the floor.
It may be frozen pipes, but I am wondering if there is a connection between the stoppage and my thread in the link above. Can this somehow be an airlock and if so, how can it be rectified?

 

[LUNAT]

HI

hard to think anything else at this time of the year.most likey frozen pipe somewhere.this can also happen inside the house.i have repaired many.

 

[Shutpa]

Cheers and thanks for the rapid reply. Do frozen pipes always burst?

 

[Shutpa]

I provided the link because as I mentioned in that thread, quite often the cystern would not fill until the sink tap was turned on or vice versa and these two are part of the problem now.

 

[Shutpa]

. Do frozen pipes always burst?

Just bumping this up to get advice.

 

[libby lou lou]

. Do frozen pipes always burst?

Just bumping this up to get advice.

No, as long as there's room for ice expansion.

 

[Shutpa]

Thanks Libby, I'll keep my fingers crossed.