What would cause this? I hate plumbing and my around the house reference manuals offer no advice.
We accidentally turned the heat off last night in -40 windchill, but it was still 50 in the house this morning, but nothing came out of the kitchen faucet. The house is well insulated, everything else works fine, and eventually the faucet started working. Now it has stopped again.
Any ideas?
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If the pipes are in the wall they probably froze. Leave the sink cabinet doors open.
It sure doesn't feel frozen.The pipes go directly down into the basement (not in the wall)...it's probably at least 50 down there (super insulated house, no heat in the basement but I know there is 4 inches of foam under the slab and the walls are insulated).
Well, could always be unrelated to the cold, like a clogged aerator.
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frozen somewhere. probably just one little section of pipe that gets too much chill.
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Had some water pipes freeze because the cold air was falling down through a chase wall with the vent stack in it. No heat in the house that night so there was no warm air rising through that leaky wall, as would normally be the case. Hell of a way to learn a simple physics lesson: cold air is dense and will flow to the lowest level through any small hole, in the absents of positive warm air movement.
What brand of faucet? any low flow problems either hot or cold, b/4?
Grohe Ladylux faucets have a penchant for low flow-usually on the cold side. Newer can be back flushed to clear-older need reamed with thin wire. Changing out the cartridge doesn't seem to take care of it.
I'd certainly remove the screens out of the head first.
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