No water, what to check first?

sevenhills

I tried the hot tap, looked a little low in pressure, so I turned it off and tried the cold tap. That was low too, slowing to almost nothing.

I live in a house built in the 60s, so I would have thought any frozen pipes would have been lagged many years ago.
I do have a neighbour that is refitting all his kitchen, and I have noticed banging pipes when I turn the taps off. I do have lever taps, which turn off the water quickly, it has done this before, but it seems worse in this cold weather.
My neighbour is out at the moment.

martinthebandit

Check your water suppliers website first, it may not be your problem at all

sevenhills

martinthebandit wrote: »

Check your water suppliers website first, it may not be your problem at all

No issues on their web site, neighbour number 1 has the water turned off, neighbour number 2 has no issues.

So I am assuming its a frozen pipe, my meter is under the sink, along with the stop-tap, I would think it is frozen before it gets to that.
I believe the pipes go under the floorboards before the spot-tap.

silvercar

I believe the pipes go under the floorboards before the spot-tap.

My first suggestion would be to see if they emerge somewhere else. More likely to be frozen at an exposed point, rather than under floorboards.

sevenhills

silvercar wrote: »

My first suggestion would be to see if they emerge somewhere else. More likely to be frozen at an exposed point, rather than under floorboards.

I am assuming they go under the floorboards. The pipe goes out of sight behind my kitchen unit. It is heading straight outside, but it does not appear on the outside wall, so I assume it then goes downwards.

The next step may be take remove the back of the kitchen unit, because I am getting cold, without my heating, lol

cajef

sevenhills wrote: »

The next step may be take remove the back of the kitchen unit, because I am getting cold, without my heating, lol

Why is it effecting your heating, assuming you have radiators and boiler they are on a separate system and your water supply should not stop you using the heating.

indianabones

I've got frozen pipes outside and in the loft, clearly not lagged well enough or not capable of handling -7 Celsius. Fortunately the inside taps are working and so is the boiler so at least not everything is frozen. But I have no choice but to wait until the temperature rises now before I think about thawing. I pray, I really have to that no serious damage is done.

sevenhills

cajef wrote: »

Why is it effecting your heating, assuming you have radiators and boiler they are on a separate system and your water supply should not stop you using the heating.

Surely all the water that you use goes via the water meter?

sevenhills

indianabones wrote: »

Fortunately the inside taps are working and so is the boiler so at least not everything is frozen. But I have no choice but to wait until the temperature rises now before I think about thawing. I pray, I really have to that no serious damage is done.

I was thinking about dismantling the sink unit to get to the pipes, but if it could be ok, I might just play the waiting game.

sevenhills

cajef wrote: »

Why is it effecting your heating, assuming you have radiators and boiler they are on a separate system and your water supply should not stop you using the heating.

The pressure in the boiler is above 1, so my feet will soon be warming up

indianabones

sevenhills wrote: »

I was thinking about dismantling the sink unit to get to the pipes, but if it could be ok, I might just play the waiting game.

The waiting game is horrible, even for me cause I don't know the damage done yet. I'm going to have to check each and every visible section of the pipe that is accessible. I don't even want to think about what's happening above and below floorboards etc.

If you don't have any heating, perhaps use a couple of those electric fan heaters and sit in a single room?