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Frozen pipes or something else?

laredo
10 years ago

It is 10F in NY and this morning there was no cold water, except in the kitchen. Hot water working fine.

If you look at our house from the front the left hand side has a garage basement, first floor with 2 bathrooms and a two year old second floor addition with one bathroom. On the right hand side there is the furnace room in the basement and the kitchen in the first floor. In the middle of the basement is a utility sink.

Before the addition we never had this type of problems. Two years back right after the addition we had a similar problem but we "identified the problem" with a garden hose that was left outside. No hose right now.

Even though the garage is cold, temperature reads mid 40's , all pipes seem ok.

We have had a number of sinks cold water open. One sink in the second floor trickle some water and stopped. The utility sink behaves oddly - with the cold water open, if your run the hot water, after you shut it down, water will continue to flow for a minute or so. Sounds like hot water is gettin into the cold water pipe.

To the point:
Sounds like a frozen pipe? If so how do I locate it? Most are buried
Should I run hot water in that utility sink to act as a thawed.
Could it be a totally different problem? Remember kitchen cold water is good and hot water is good too

Thanks much!!
Laredo

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