Ouch! If the plastic is pvc then it is toast ... cracks/splits really easily when cold. I have way too much experience with pvc as irrigation pipe. If it is polyethylene or cpvc then I have no experience.
I used one inch Cu for pressure tank to house. It is only two feet deep so when the mins dip below 15 F I let the water drip at night. It still may freeze in the pump house or in the room with the gas hot water heater if I get careless. It is NOT fun to get rousted out of a sound sleep by an annoyed wife because the shower doesn't work. Sometimes the extra expense of galvanized or even copper is worth it when the need to thaw buried pipe arises. Nonetheless, an gram of prevention is worth a Kg of cure. Good luck. Dave On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 21:45 +0000, andy pugh wrote: > I am at my parents' house for christmas. The water supply pipe is > frozen, somewhere underground and we have no water. This is putting > rather a crimp on things. > > Is there a well-known solution to this problem? It is a somewhat > unusual supply, being a private, communal supply fed from a spring > into a cistern. The cistern is not frozen, and we think that other > houses in the hamlet are OK. (Which at least limits how much pipe we > might have to dig up to warm up.) > > The pipes are plastic, so the idea of resistive heating is probably out. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
