Pluming help...

Here's the deal...one night a week and a half ago the cold water stops working in one of my bathrooms (tap, shower and toilet). I fiddle around with the valve under the sink, and suddenly the water is running again.

Two day's later the same thing happens except fiddling does nothing. A couple of hours later, cold water once again works in the bathroom.

Two day's ago, the cold water once again stops working, then the hot water stops as well. Neither have started working again.

The problem is localized to one bathroom in my house, and I have never experienced it before. Was thinking it might be a frozen pipe, however I am a bit confused with how quickly the problem will start then stop again. I am also confused as to why the hot would have frozen (was running it shorly before it stopped working).

Anyone have any ideas for me?

yea, it's spelled P-L-U-M-B-I-N-G

call a plumer?

and I think the B on your keyboard is broken

It doesn't take long to freeze a pipe. It also does not take long to thaw one once there is a little water flowing in it. Do you have kids that may be fucking with your mind?

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Originally Posted by skiguide

yea, it's spelled P-L-U-M-B-I-N-G

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uh...thanks.

Did any of the previous residents die in the house?

Do you get a bunch of rust colored water out of those faucets?

try lowering your pants and shoving a pencil in the crack of your ass

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Originally Posted by Beaver

It doesn't take long to freeze a pipe.

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Yeah, but on the inside of an occupied (I'm assuming) house? Do the supply pipes to that bathroom go outside at all?

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Originally Posted by Woodsy

try lowering your pants and shoving a pencil in the crack of your ass

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Two drops and a small Pepsi spew.

Classic!

Perhaps there is a man eating snake in the pipes. Saw it once on one of them there tv shows. :)

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Originally Posted by Woodsy

try lowering your pants and shoving a pencil in the crack of your ass

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Woodsy, that was the first think that I tried. No luck.

The house is less than 5 years old, and no pipes run outside. All the pumbing (for you spelling nazi's) is done with the PVC ish plastic pipe that they use these days...

My little abode has made it through colder weather than this without freezing problems, which makes me believe (hope?) that isn't the case now...

Sometimes with pvc, you get little pieces of plastic that wasn't cleaned out when(if) the flushed the lines. Take the screen off the sink faucet and check for debris.

Oh, I forgot. 1st rule of plumbing:

"Shit goes downhill"

Try to eliminate the options you have. Check if the pipes are freezing. Take a look at where the pipes split, from your water heater etc. Here's my theory: Something (sand something else, whatever, I get small pieces of wood stuck in the filters on my bathroom faucet) got stuck in the cold water pipe. It came loose, the water started running again, then it got stuck somewhere after where the warm/colf water is mixed in your faucet. So now neither works.

Edit: Maybe there is a piece of plastic somewhere like Keoni is suggesting.

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All the pumbing (for you spelling nazi's)

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I've got nothing, but I thought this was funny.

My first thought was debris clogging something but hot and cold both seems odd and all taps in the bathroom seems odd. Maybe it has now moved up to the faucet where the two mix. Only other guess is the plastic pipe has had something pushed against it or on it somewhere where it's exposed in the basement or under the sink.

Keep in mind nothing should be attempted without the pencil in the buttcrack.
2nd rule of plumbing, payday is fri.
3rd rule, plmers cant spel

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Originally Posted by Canuk

My little abode has made it through colder weather than this without freezing problems, which makes me believe (hope?) that isn't the case now...

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Well, I just can't help giving out advise. :)

If it's a countertop sink and the cabinate underneath is closed then there's no air circulation and freezing is possible. It's more common in RVs in the winter but it happens in houses too. Leave the cabinate doors open and see if the problem solves itself.

If it's a pedastal sink then never mind.

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Originally Posted by Canuk

The house is less than 5 years old, and no pipes run outside. All the pumbing (for you spelling nazi's) is done with the PVC ish plastic pipe that they use these days...

My little abode has made it through colder weather than this without freezing problems, which makes me believe (hope?) that isn't the case now...

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After reading this, I'm leaning towards the man-eating snake. You better get a gun and hope that fucker doesn't come out. I'd just board up that bathroom and not use it.

I just spoke with a PLUMBER, and he thinks that it is probably a frozen pipe. He mentioned checking that the pipes were not up against the induction vent for my furnace, stating that the cold air coming in could freeze the water in my pipes...here's hoping that Casa Canuk doesn't end up with a swimming pool in the basement once everything is said and done.

keeping my fingers crossed for all involved in the Canyons avi. That's a much bigger deal than my damn pipes...