Frozen pipes: keeping home waters flowing

The Boston Globe | February 12, 1995| | Copyright

A nice morning: cold, but sunny and dry and just great for a quick shower and a hearty breakfast.

Fine, but you turn on the water and nothing happens. Frozen pipes. That's a lousy scenario for the start of a day, but it happens, especially when the temperature dives -- and stays low for a number of days.

And with frozen pipes comes the hazard of burst pipes and resulting super leaks when the ice thaws.

What to do, what to do?

First priority is to try to thaw out the pipes and get the water going again, and hope that the pipes did not burst. Sometimes when a a pipe freezes, particularly in a ...

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