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I'm dealing with the same thing here. The weird part is that it's an internal pipe that is not even close to an exterior wall. But the pipe goes next to the vent pipe of the house that goes up to the roof, and the cold air comes down that vent pipe and freezes the water line. I just drilled a hole in my baseboard to try to get some hot air in there.
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It is Pex.. I finally got it done at 2 today.. Going to fall asleep to playoff football..
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Welp water isnt draining in my shower now so imagine my pipes are freezing as well
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I solved my problem with a major MacGyver move. The frozen pipe is in a vertical service tunnel and we can't reach it. So we got our shop vac and turned it on to blower mode and poked a hole in the wall to put the nozzle in. I blew ambient air from my home office down into the tunnel and within 10 minutes the pipe thawed.
I'm going to be running the shop vac every half hour for the next 2 days, but at least the pipe isn't frozen.
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It took me a few tries to realize that there was no way to get to the frozen pipe. The other side of this wall is decorative wainscotting, so I couldn't go in from the other side. But pumping air into the wall did the trick.
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Do you live in the Marijuana Mansion?
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She's happy that there's not a waterfall of ice flowing down the back of our house right now.
It was kind of fun to saw holes through the wall. I never get to do that. The walls are apple green, not weed green. I live in the Apple Estate.
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Rain man- Can you leave it open this winter. Make a cut next summer and wrap it in heat tape then put in new wall.
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