Frozen pipes.....maybe?

Loganwayne

Loganwayne

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Clyde, North Carolina
First my whole house is on a crawl space besides my basement.
All the plumbing works in my house.
My washer/dryer is in the garage. It has been around 40 degrees during the cold spell but washer is up against two exterior block/brick walls. The drain line for the washer froze about 3,4 days ago (the plastic line from washer to hard drain line), I got it thawed and finished a load of laundry without a problem. Today I went to do a load of laundry checked the washer drain line first it was semi frozen but pushed water out no problem, so started the washer. Now the hardline isn’t letting any water threw, im assuming this line is frozen now. To me it seems strange that this line was fine a couple days ago but now is frozen. This pipe runs under the slab into the crawl space, it looks like it was the only pipe not replaced when the plumbing was redone so it is cast or galvanized. It seems weird that this line would freeze because it runs threw the middle of the slab, I guess it could have froze due to it being near the edge of the slab. Any other thoughts


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My old laundry room and I would have been battling for master of the universe during this weather. It was copper pipe against the inside of what I would learn to know was an uninsulated exterior wall.

I had the heat strip crap and I'd still end up watching a propane torpedo heater rip for a couple hours before I could crack the cutoff and finally shoot water and ice all over the room. Never been so happy making such a mess that I had to clean up.

I think it froze.
 
frankenyoter said:
My old laundry room and I would have been battling for master of the universe during this weather. It was copper pipe against the inside of what I would learn to know was an uninsulated exterior wall.

I had the heat strip crap and I'd still end up watching a propane torpedo heater rip for a couple hours before I could crack the cutoff and finally shoot water and ice all over the room. Never been so happy making such a mess that I had to clean up.

I think it froze.
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I do to. I just can’t wrap my head around why it froze now and not when it was colder for much longer


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When the laundry room would freeze pipes id have the copper warm almost hot on both sides of the slab for almost a day to thaw it out. It was only 4 ft or so buried.

I got to the point where if was going to be cold as crap for a few days, toward the end a space heater would go in there. That exterior wall doesn't catch much winter sun.
 
I used to rent a house where the laundry was in an unheated garage type section. The landlord told me that in order to keep it from freezing, I needed to keep the light on above the washer. Amazingly, it worked, even with the hard freeze we had in like 2001-2002. For kicks, on the last day of the cold temps, I shut off the light and it froze up. I NEVER would have imagined it.
 
ManglerYJ said:
I used to rent a house where the laundry was in an unheated garage type section. The landlord told me that in order to keep it from freezing, I needed to keep the light on above the washer. Amazingly, it worked, even with the hard freeze we had in like 2001-2002. For kicks, on the last day of the cold temps, I shut off the light and it froze up. I NEVER would have imagined it.
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well its fine now so im just gonna do my laundry like normal and if it gets back down to single temps for a week or more just not do any or take them somewhere it doesn't happen enough even in WNC to really be a concern for me.
 
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