Help,no water

curlytop12

in a pickle,woke this morning,heating been on all night( very low though!) but no water coming out of taps anywhere in house.presuming pipes frozen.....any advice or do i just hope they defrost soon?
ps.used the water out of my hot water bottle for a cuppa!!!!

Canucklehead

gem68 wrote: »

in a pickle,woke this morning,heating been on all night( very low though!) but no water coming out of taps anywhere in house.presuming pipes frozen.....any advice or do i just hope they defrost soon?
ps.used the water out of my hot water bottle for a cuppa!!!!

Good morning: see here.

HTH

Canucklehead

The_Pedant

This doesn't help your situation, but water pipes are typically buried about 18inches underground, to protect them from freezing in pretty much all but a really harsh winter. I'd therefore be surprised if it was a frozen pipe. If it is in the marginal freezing temperatures we've had then it would not bode well for the typical temperatures we get in Jan/Feb time.

I'd be inclined to check with neighbours and double check stop taps etc first (unless you have had the house *rally* cold)

keystone

might be a good plan to call your supplier as well to make sure they haven't turned off the supply somewhere in order to do "essential" work.

But as its now two hours since this was raised and not another peep since I guess its either fixed or the OP has emigrated in disgust.

Cheers

curlytop12

thank you for responding.
had to go work,got back now,still warm house,no water.off to check with neighbours.....
it is snowing here in preston.

curlytop12

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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH ...I'VE SORTED IT ,WITH HELP FROM YOU ALL!
I found the stop !!!!,its outside,how daft.couldn't turn it off anyway...
then I rang suppliers,no problems reported except frozen pipes.
So I stood my hair dryer up in a big jar of pasta to the correct position and put it on medium heat for about 10 mins,hey presto ,tap started running
AM SO FLIPPING CHUFFED
THANKYOU AGAIN

ormus

modern systems with combi boilers dont have any storage tanks.
if the water goes off for any reason, then you dont have any water. full stop.

softuk

Pretty cold here - south lincolnshire - outside temp gauge reading minus 4 this morning, and was minus 3 at 4 this afternoon,and forecast is for it to be down to minus 6, so stand by for more freezing pipes.

27col

May I suggest that, when the weather improves, you make sure that you can turn the stopcock off. Also any other water isolators inside the house. You are just asking for trouble, if you do not.....
A) know where the isolators are
and make sure that they can all be operated in an emergency.

paddypaws101

gem68 wrote: »

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH ...I'VE SORTED IT ,WITH HELP FROM YOU ALL!
I found the stop !!!!,its outside,how daft.couldn't turn it off anyway...
then I rang suppliers,no problems reported except frozen pipes.
So I stood my hair dryer up in a big jar of pasta to the correct position and put it on medium heat for about 10 mins,hey presto ,tap started running
AM SO FLIPPING CHUFFED
THANKYOU AGAIN

Err..please translate this for me....Hairdryer...pasta jar....what????

curlytop12

yes,that sounds like i'm barking mad!will explain....i didn't want to sit on kitchen floor holding hairdryer for goodness knows how long so needed something to prop it up,stuck handle of dryer into jar,job done.
yes,that doesn't make me sound any saner does it?