With the amount of water coming out, it should be obvious. Also, after 17 years, these CPVC pipes seem brittle.

Really sorry to hear about all this, James. Is all of the damage from frozen pipes? Sorry if I missed that part, haven't read the whole thread.

Thanks Denis. Yep. Frozen pipes. Outside wall behind my kitchen cabinets. Not a lot of heat transfer from the house. Went down to 6 degrees overnight and no flowing water. Just stagnant water in the pipes.

If it’s CPVC I bet it’s obvious. That stuff will just fracture when it swells.

What was the point of using that stuff?

Wow!

Kudos to the guy who did it with one really short arm. Or one really long one, depending.

Hope it is an easy fix, Red.

As of 10 pm tonight SW Oklahoma has had 207 straight hours below freezing. We might make it above freezing Friday, but more likely Saturday. We could approach 300 straight hours. The all time record prior to this was 83 hours. We are going to be close to 83 hours of sub 20. About 12" of snow on the ground at my place.

So far, no power outages or frozen water lines. Knock on wood.

The washing machine's cold water supply pipe is frozen in my place and I was going to wait until tomorrow to deal with it, but after reading your post decided to cut a rectangle out of the wallboard so I could get to the pipes - old ass, fiberglass and paper insulation was mostly fallen off and in a heap at the bottom (quite a bit of the cold water pipe exposed) - super cold air in void between inner and out wall. Going to thaw with a space heater - have nearby faucet open to relieve pressure (hopefully).

Thanks for the inspiration, Red!

Imagine if you had a trailer load of gererators for sale about now.,,

It was supposed to be "Monkey Work".

Everyone says they are going to buy one after something like this, but they never cough up the dough.

Damn Red that sucks! No advice on finding the leak. But if you have PVC and have to replace it in an area where the line froze, go with Pex. it can withstand freezing (not like it happens that often in Tejas) better than CPVC. I've seen CPVC crack rather than just burst apart and it was able to flow quite nicely through that crack in the pipe. Good luck and sorry you're having all this trouble.

Buddy sent this to me. His place near Dallas yesterday AM. Probably worse this AM from the extra snow overnight.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1613565001.jpg

That can't be good for the lining material.

There is at least one province in Canada and a crap load of oil industry workers that would love to help make this happen.
Pipelines can carry anything from nat gas to raw bitumen and finished product.

Hope things get better for you guys soon.
Red, if the piping is poorly installed, hopefully they didn't use a lot of clamps and brackets and you could pull in pex to replace it more easily...
I think you will be ripping and tearing anyway but maybe a good time to look at removing the old piping if it looks to be deteriorating.

Wow James. That really sucks. At least you get a chance to upgrade the poor plumbing job. Are you going to do it yourself?

One of my copper pipes split yesterday and I had quite the gusher. All the copper pipes in my house are not insulated, as James mentioned homes in this part of the country are not constructed to withstand this severe cold weather. Its sucks and so many people have it way worse.

My wife and I went to Home Depot, and the line to get in was almost 600-ft long, I'm not kidding, compounded by the fact that the store closed early at 6pm. The plumbing aisle was a mad house and picked over with everyone buying stuff to repair their broken lines and damaged plumbing. Walmart's shelves are empty...this is reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey from 2017 nd the on-start of Covid-19 from a year ago.

Here's the line to Home Depot, 2 miles from my house..like I said this line was 600-ft long:

https://scontent.fhou1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...0a&oe=6053DB22

ERCOT must be having a really tough week. Your power prices are still very high. ~$4,000/MW right now.

LMP Contour Map: Real-Time Market - Locational Marginal Pricing

You can also see your RT Load vs Forecast here...

Load Forecast vs. Actual: Current Day

Less cost. Can be installed by monkeys, unlike copper which requires trained monkeys.

It's turned out to be a less-than-stellar idea. Sorry that you have to deal with it.