HDPE suggests more recent 'history', so I would have expected the pipe to be installed below 18". I wouldn't have thought our recent conditions would have caused a problem at that depth. I'd put my money on the point of entry in to the (old?) building. Get your spade out and have a look :-)
On 25/12/2010 21:45, 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
