Night calls and burst water
Thawing frozen lines
Frozen supply lines thawed with controlled heat, never a torch, then checked for hidden cracks before the water is turned back on in Toronto homes.
- Phone answered every hour, holidays included
- Fault found and explained before anything is cut
- Cold section found with a thermometer
- Flow-tested in front of you when finished
Call now(365) 517-7215. A plumber picks up, day or night.
- Open 24/7. Phone answered every hour, holidays too.
- Licensed & insured. Trade licence details given on request.
- Shown before cut. You see the fault and the plan first.
- Gas by gas techs. Licensed gas technicians on gas heaters.
When a tap coughs out a dribble or stays dry on a bitterly cold morning, a frozen pipe is the likely cause. Ice alone rarely does the harm. What splits copper is pressure trapped behind the ice, against a closed faucet, with nowhere to escape.
Finding the frozen section
- We start at the coldest likely spot: supply runs hugging outer walls, the cabinet under a sink on a cold wall, in unheated crawlspaces and garages, and the hose bib line passing through the rim joist.
- A non-contact thermometer helps us find the section that reads well below the rest.
Clues it is this job
- One tap dry while others work
- Frost on exposed pipe
- A toilet that will not refill after a cold night
- Gurgling or banging when you open a tap
Thawing without damage
- We open the nearest tap so meltwater has somewhere to go, then warm the pipe slowly with a heat gun, heat cable or a pipe-thawing machine on metal lines.
- An open torch never goes near a frozen line inside a stud bay.
- Thawing too quickly can turn a hairline crack into a flood.
Stopping it happening again
- After the water flows we check the thawed section under pressure for weeping.
- Then we look at why it froze.
- Sometimes it is a missing piece of insulation at the rim joist, sometimes a pipe that was moved into an exterior wall during a kitchen renovation.
- We explain the options, from foam sleeves to rerouting.
Leaving a cabinet door open under a sink on an outside wall lets house heat reach the trap and supply lines.
How the job runs, step by step
- 1Nearest tap opened to relieve pressure
- 2Cold section found with a thermometer
- 3Slow heat applied along the run
- 4Pipe pressure tested for hidden splits