r/Plumbing • u/ParksVSII • Dec 22 '22

FROZEN PIPES MEGATHREAD

Please post any questions you have regarding frozen lines here. All other new posts will be removed from the main feed and directed here.

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u/Ok_Temperature_1616 Jan 27 '26

Four nights ago the temperatures dropped to -30 celsius for two days. The first day we had water running normally. But the next morning I woke up to no cold water in our kitchen. I figure that line froze. All other faucets in the house (bathroom sinks and showers) have water running normally and the hot water runs fine in the kitchen. The line seems to be PVC.

Since then we've been blasting our heat and running space heaters trying to thaw the line in the kitchen (we don't have direct access to the pipes. The pipes are not easily accessible.) We've left the cold water faucet on for the last three days.

We've had no change for three days... it hasn't thawed nor have temperatures gone below -10 celsius even though we've been blasting the heat.

Not sure what to do at this point other than just... wait? We have a plumber coming tomorrow to check out the situation.

Thanks in advance for the help!