How to warm frozen sewer

Where usually freezes the water in the pipe

In our climatic conditions the freezing of residual water in the summer water pipes or the formation of ice jams in the pipeline systems operated by the private home can be considered the norm.Expect autonomous network, providing their reliable thermal insulation and competent installation artisanal designers and builders have not yet learned, so to solve problems sometimes have their own.

We have considered separately the defrost drain, so this article will focus more on water supply systems of a private house.Potential areas of water supply pipelines, which will have to be defrosted in severe winter frosts can be determined even in the design scheme.

• outputs to the surface for underground communication wiring.The fall of the hydraulic pressure of pressure systems in such places is unavoidable, and the freezing of the aqueous medium, the formation of traffic jams and the need for defrosting are consequences of poor performance of the pumping equipment.
• length of sections of the pipeline in the zone of freezing the underlying soil or just close to the surface.The case of the most embarrassing as to determine the exact location of the freezing water pipe is difficult enough, but to dig and check the ear and warm the entire length of the winter cold - not the most pleasant experience.
• bends, tees, crosses (fittings) water schemes, iePotential sites Education hydraulic turbulence and dead zones: the problematic construction of any pipeline spreading room, sometimes not taken into account when designing the case of leaks and freezing.Warm the moldings without breakage is not easy.
• Valves .Insulation and preseason purge this equipment simply is mandatory, otherwise the destruction of frost may be irreversible, and the warm and thaw the stop node will be useless.Simply put, there will be nothing to save.

What will warm the frozen pipe

Outset that there are universal methods suitable for thawing pipes of virtually any material (metal, polypropylene, polyethylene, and others.) And specific, used to be agreat caution.It makes sense to consider two options for thawing frozen water pipes on a simple basis: Location.

1. ice plug is in the open, accessible area of ​​the pipeline and is easily identified in situ.
2. Frozen section of the pipe that you want to warm up, is located under the ground, it is difficult to uniquely position, and searches are associated with a large volume of earthworks in winter conditions.

For the first case recommendations fairly monotonous, clear and simple, as used repeatedly:

• construction (if any) or ordinary household hairdryer is included in the maximum heat flux, you can quickly and, most importantly, safely warm up the frozen segment of theany material.A similar procedure will survive even the plastic tube.
• For horizontal segments is quite suitable method of shock hitting the boiling water.Frozen pipes ease wrapped rags and pour hot water.On metallic structures, this method works in 15-20 minutes.
• gas burner.It is understood that such equipment can be used exclusively for open defrost metal pipes without thermal insulation and synthetic coatings.The method is not the most humane, but effective.However, working with an open flame near the wooden house constructions, we recommend that you do not.

Indoor recovery option frozen communications we examined in detail in the article as to unfreeze the sewers in a private home, so we will not dwell therein.

better not to defrost and warm

historic slogan, and remember it is required in the design phase, and the calculation of any autonomous laying of the pipeline system of a country house.The cost of thermal protection will be compensated for a long period of trouble-free operation and comfortable at any time of the year.What do I need to do?

1. Buy and pave the insulating material at the stage of laying water mains recessed portions.Proposal roll and mat products of such a plan even excessively on the market to find its own version of thermal insulation for pipes, you can easily.
2. Set in its pipeline heating electric cable, the device is quite expensive and energy-intensive, but it allows for a long time not to think about the capacity of pipeline communications of your home.

For gardeners and gardeners problem is solved even easier: the fall in time to unleash fittings PE80, turn the water pipes and put them away until next spring.Freezing and thaw nothing nothing.