On 26 December 2010 20:37, Richard Arthur <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 :-)

Parts of it were put in by my dad and I, and those are now proven clear.
We are running a hosepipe from an unfrozen neighbour into the barn-end
feed pipe, which is filling both ends of the house, and so indicates
that all pipes up to the (now working) external tap on the corner of
the unused cottage on the other side of the yard are clear. That
narrows it down to 50 yard stretch as another neighbour tees off the
same feed pipe and has water.

Digging is looking very unpromising, I made a deep enough hole to hide
a small rabbit from a short-sighted fox in 15 minutes of work with a
mattock and hot water. Putting a trench across the access road for the
farm and 5 houses would be unpopular...

Currently temperature is 3.1 degrees and we have a thaw underway, how
long that will take to reach the pipes is an interesting question.

-- 
atp
"Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men"

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