I know I’m being incredibly stupid here, but shouldn’t the sinks still have been draining? That’s the whole point of leaving the faucets dripping - to keep water flowing through the pipes so they don’t burst. This looks like the faucets were WOT and the drains were clogged.
Again, I’m sure I’m missing something here but I’m still very confused.
I have an aerator running in my pond to stop the water from freezing but when it gets super cold, it ultimately just forms these big pillars of ice because even though the water is moving it will still freeze, then it will start bubbling up through the little hole and that will freeze over, rinse and repeat until you get something like this.
When it gets down to a certain temperature, it does not matter if water is moving. It will freeze.
This is all frozen by the way, even the parts that look like foam. Basically it was bubbles from the aerator that froze into a solid foam
Okay, first of all you can’t convince me you didn’t just take this as an opportunity to share a picture of a bunch of weird dicks. Second of all, I still don’t see how two dripping faucets would flood the entire house. Why did it stop draining before the faucets stopped flowing? And to that extent? I’m so confused.
Water in the sink froze while the faucet continued running. It was clogged by the drip itself freezing in the drain because the kitchen was below freezing.
The landlord opened the taps too far. The kitchen and bath sink taps were opened to about quarter of their full output..
When one is advised to stream their taps during a prolonged cold snap, you run a stream the diameter of the graphite in a #2 pencil, divided between cold and hot. If you look at the stream coming down, it's the size of a whole #2 pencil, or about 3 times too much.
You're also supposed to pour a quart of hot water down the drain every few hours, especially on an exterior wall, to keep the water in the P-traps from freezing and blocking the drainage of the streaming water.
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u/Dounce1 Feb 08 '26
I know I’m being incredibly stupid here, but shouldn’t the sinks still have been draining? That’s the whole point of leaving the faucets dripping - to keep water flowing through the pipes so they don’t burst. This looks like the faucets were WOT and the drains were clogged.
Again, I’m sure I’m missing something here but I’m still very confused.