When Andy came home last Tuesday he said,
Disaster has struck our humble home!
Usually that’s a joke, something relatively minor has gone wrong. But this time he added,
There’s no water in the house.
Oh, oh. That could be a lot of trouble and a lot of money.
There’s plenty of water at the fire hydrant and the faucet, so the problem is somewhere between there and the house. Andy has a couple of things he can try before we consider digging the pipe up, and he’ll try them after the weather warms up. If they don’t work we could be in for another big project — as usual, I will let you know.
February 4, 2014
I hope it’s something easy to take care of and not too expensive.
We’re really scratching our head about how it happened, and so suddenly.
That is a dicey one. My best wishes that you resolve it soon.
Do you think the universe is trying to tell us something, and we’re too dense to get it?
You could do like we do. 😀
Our running water at the cabin is a spring down the mountain aways. We run down there, fill gal. containers & run them back up.
(Our extra water is brought from home, put in a big container upstairs in the cabin & it runs down to the sink when we turn on the faucet.)
We could run the hose from the external faucet to our house. It’s not our favorite choice. 🙂
i guess it’s a good thing you keep your trouble free apartment to live in!
it seems the little beloved cabin has been nothing but trouble!
but this too shall pass.
let’s just hope it passes with small expense. already the car has been enough shock!
at least it was to ME! LOL. xoxo
Yes. We may be crazy, but we’re not completely stupid.
Oh boy
Yep.
What could the universe convey to us about a clogged pipeline?
When things continually go wrong — like the whole place burning down, the roads washing out again and again last summer, now the problems with the water — we laugh and wonder if the universe is trying to tell us something. Andy and I have already agreed if the house gets demolished in a lightning strike we will regard it as a message and not rebuild again.
Now isn’t this the season of the ground hog, chappie…maybe you put in your new pipes right near we he usually comes up and he as bent and busted the pipe whilst struggling to arrive topside 🙂
On the other hand is it possible to get some gadget that can run along – topside – where the pipe was laid to see what is happening below….
I like your idea of the ground hog!
When the weather warms up Andy’s going to try to pressurize some water (coming from a hose from the outside faucet) back out through the pipe to see if he can force any foreign matter back to where the pipe has a wider diameter. That might work if the pipe is clogged rather than smashed.
Apparently there’s no way to check what’s going on from the topside, but I suggested maybe running a plumber’s snake from the crawl space through the pipe to see how far it will go. That might help us find the location of the obstruction. We’re hoping his idea of back flushing the system works.
I saw that you had been having a lot of cold weather. Here when it gets
below zero for a couple days, if we don’t run the water, our indoor lower
floor bathroom toilet and sink just freeze up. Its been below zero for the
last couple of days, so Ive been dutifully running the water morning and
night. Because you have water at the hydrant, I wonder if the main pipe
simply froze up, although knowing Andrew he likely checked for that first?
Until the past few days this winter has been exceptionally sunny and warm. And the pipes are buried three feet deep, so Andy doesn’t think that freezing is the problem now. That’s not to say it couldn’t happen some other time.