Outside spigot froze up! What to do?

[NC gal (aka Oregon gal)]

I'm on a slab.

[CarolinaCowboy]

Here is an original idea.....wait for it to warm back up

Or, you could try and take a hair dryer and hold it to the pipe, just make sure you are not standing in a pool of water, so as not to electrocute yourself. Pipes don't normally burst from just being froze for a few hours, usually this happens when it is well below freezing for a long period of time and the ice had ample time to expand. Here we get overnight freezing, then back to above freezing during the day. It probably will be fine.

[MikeJaquish]

Originally Posted by NC gal (aka Oregon gal)

I'm on a slab.

What CCowboy said.
It probably wasn't a hard enough freeze to burst pipes.

[Babytarheelz]

I had the same problem last night, pipes to kitchen sink on exterior wall froze. Everything else in the house was fine. We're on a slap, so the only access I had to the pipes was under the sink. I tried the hair dryer trick and that didn't work, so I moistened some dish clothes with hot water and wrapped them around the pipes under the sink. Opened the cold faucet completely and within about 10 minutes, cold water was finally flowing. Now I'm working on the hot side. Very proud that I did this without my husband's help (he's been working all day). Minor feat for some, but we've never dealt with frozen pipes before, so I'm a little proud.

[North_Raleigh_Guy]

Originally Posted by Babytarheelz

I had the same problem last night, pipes to kitchen sink on exterior wall froze. Everything else in the house was fine. We're on a slap, so the only access I had to the pipes was under the sink.

Glad it worked out for you. This is interesting to me. I am on a slab as well. However my sink is not located along an outside wall. I did not have problems with freezing pipes last night. I wonder if the sinks location was a factor in this. I had never thought about that before.

[Babytarheelz]

I think location does matter. All of our other sinks were fine, it was only the kitchen sink and the dishwasher next to the sink which are both on the outside wall. I have a couple of other faucets near an outside wall, but not on it, and they were fine.

[suncat]

A fire sprinkler line in the apartment next door to me burst this afternoon, flooding that apartment and the one below it. No one is living there, so it wouldn't have mattered if a faucet had been left dripping or not, because it was in the fire sprinkler pipe. Luckily no one is living in the apartment below, either, but both units are a mess. The fireman said they've been responding to these all day.

The scariest thing was to be following the firetruck all the way home and thinking there was a fire.

[CarolinaCowboy]

Somebody phone God please and tell him to turn the dang heat back up please. I moved down here to be warm damnit!

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Originally Posted by CarolinaCowboy

Somebody phone God please and tell him to turn the dang heat back up please. I moved down here to be warm damnit!

Tried. "Skiing Sugar Mountain - begin praying at the beep."